Carl Walter Kockel

Carl Walter Kockel (born September 15, 1898 in Leipzig , † April 5, 1966 in Marburg ) was a German geologist .

Kockel was the son of forensic doctor Richard Kockel and studied geology, zoology and geography at the University of Leipzig from 1917 to 1922 . In 1917 he was called up for military service and served as a medical soldier . In 1920 he was a member of the Leipzig -term volunteers - regiment .

In 1922 Franz Kossmat obtained his doctorate as Dr. phil. in geology on the northeastern Eastern Alps during the Cretaceous Period , followed in 1925 by the habilitation in geology on the geology of the Hohenschwangau mountains . He was then a private lecturer from 1925 to 1930 and from 1930 to 1938 npl. Prof. for geology and paleontology at the University of Leipzig. 1931 to 1932 he taught as a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . In 1933, Kockel signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

In 1938 his teaching license was withdrawn due to his wife's Jewish descent. Then he worked for Seismos in Hanover before 1939 . After the end of the Second World War he worked as a geologist for the Office for Soil Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1949 he taught as a full professor of geology and paleontology at the Philipps University of Marburg . Its main area was the northern Limestone Alps .

He is the father of the geologist Franz Kockel .

Publications (selection)

Geology of the Bavarian Mountains between Lech and Loisach (= scientific publications of the German and Austrian Alpine Association, Vol. 10), Innsbruck-Munich 1931.
Slate mountains and the Hessian depression around Marburg / Lahn (= collection of geological guides, vol. 37), Berlin 1958.