Carl Adam Wicher

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Carl Adam Wicher (born May 11, 1901 in Schoppinitz , Silesia , † April 3, 1957 in Hanover ) was a German geologist. As a petroleum geologist, he dealt with micropalaeontology and specifically with microstratigraphy of the Mesozoic Era.

Life

From 1922 Wicher studied mining at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg with a diploma in 1927 and then worked in coal mining in Upper Silesia and as a geologist and geophysicist in Australia and Romania. In 1930 he was back in Berlin, where he received his doctorate under Robert Potonié in 1932 (Spore Forms of Flame Coal of the Ruhr Area). Wicher was from 1935 at the Prussian Geological Institute , where he dealt with micropaleontology and stratigraphy for oil exploration. He founded a corresponding investigation center at what was now the Reich Office for Soil Research. After the Second World War he went to Yugoslavia as a micropalaeontologist in 1947, where he became a professor and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences, but returned in 1950 for health reasons and worked for Preussag (including in Austria).

Fonts

  • with R. Potonié: Das Erdöl, Origin, Occurrence, Significance, Der Naturforscher, H. 12, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1932.
  • Microfauna from Jura and Chalk, especially from Northern Germany. Part 1, Lias Alpha to Epsilon, Treatises PGLA, NF, 193, 1938
  • On the stratigraphy of the Jura / Chalk boundary layers of northwest Germany, Oil and Coal, Volume 36, 1940, p. 263
  • with L. Riedel: On the Jura / Chalk border in Northwest Germany, Oil and Coal, Volume 38, 1942, p. 1019
  • with A. Bentz: Applied Micropalaeontology, Petroleum, Volume 34, H. 44, 1938
  • Practical course in applied micropalaeontology, Borntraeger 1944
  • On the micropalaeontological classification of the non-marine council. Petroleum and Kohl, 4, pp. 755-760; Hamburg, Berlin 1951
  • Involutina, Trocholina and Vidalina - fossils of the reef area, Geol. Yearbook for 1950, Volume 66, 1952, pp. 257–284
  • Micropalaeontological observations in the higher boreal Upper Cretaceous, especially in Maastricht, Geologisches Jahrbuch, Volume 68, 1953, p. 1
  • The Gosau strata in the Gams basin (Austria) and the foraminifera structure of the Upper Cretaceous in the Tethys, paleontolog. Z., 30, 1956, special issue, 87
  • The micropalaeontological structure of the non-marine Keuper. Petroleum and Coal, 10, 1; Hamburg 1957

literature

  • H. Hiltermann, Carl A. Wicher to commemorate, Petroleum and Coal, Volume 10, 1957, p. 328
  • H. Bartenstein, Carl A. Wicher 1901-1957, Micropaleontology, Volume 3, 1957, p. 268

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personal data
SURNAME Wicher, Carl Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and micropalaeontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Schoppinitz
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1957
Place of death Hanover