Daniel Wirtz (geologist)

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Daniel Wirtz (born December 6, 1914 in Tübingen , † January 8, 1965 in Hamburg ) was a German geologist and university professor.

Scientific career

Daniel Wirtz was born in Tübingen as the son of the astronomy professor Carl Wilhelm Wirtz . After graduating from high school in Kiel , he began to study geology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in 1933 with the minor subjects mineralogy , zoology and oceanography .

After studying in Copenhagen and Zurich , Daniel Wirtz received his doctorate from Karl Beurlen in 1936 with a thesis on the Old Tertiary in Schleswig-Holstein, despite the personal intervention of Rector Georg Dahm , who revoked his father's license to teach in the same year . After completing his military service from 1936 to 1938, Wirtz worked in 1939 and 1941–43 at the marine geological research center of the Reich Office for Soil Research in Kitzeberg . Here he mainly dealt with issues of coastal protection and material relocation along the Pomeranian and Mecklenburg coast.

After the Second World War , Daniel Wirtz became an assistant at the Geological Institute at the University of Hamburg and did a great job building the war-torn institute. In November 1946 he completed his habilitation under Hans Cloos on the sediments of the world's oceans. In the early 1950s, Daniel Wirtz dealt mainly with problems of Tertiary - Quaternary - stratigraphy in North West Germany and led to the 1949 study trips to Wales by and West England. On March 30, 1954, Daniel Wirtz was appointed professor at the University of Hamburg.

After a long and serious illness and a change in climate recommended by a doctor, Wirtz continued his basic and field research in Turkey from 1953 to 1955 . After his return in 1956 he took up a position in the foreign department of the Soil Research Office. In the following years he was in charge of geological and geological research work in Indonesia and Iran . In 1958 he was commissioned to set up and manage a geological mission in Afghanistan . Both administrative and field work were carried out by him with great commitment. In 1964 he placed on the XXII. International Geological Congress in New Delhi presented the first geological map of central and southern Afghanistan with corresponding regional geological explanations.

After a long illness, which repeatedly restricted him in his work, Daniel Wirtz died on January 8, 1965 while on home leave in Hamburg.

Publications (selection)

  • The Schwonsburg near Arnis, an Os . - Die Heimat, Kiel 1933
  • The Altteriär in Schleswig-Holstein . N. Jb. Mineral., B, Beil.-Vol 81, Stuttgart 1939, pp. 215-297
  • The relationship between submarine erosion and sand migration on the Pomeranian coast . Mitt geol. Staatsdienst Hamburg, 18, Hamburg 1949, pp. 45–72
  • The Plio-Pleistocene border and the Günzee Age in northwest Germany . Ice Age and Present, 1, Öhringen 1951, pp. 73–83 (with Henning Illies )
  • On the stratigraphy of the Pleistocene in the west of the British Isles. N. Jb. Paleont. Abh., 96, Stuttgart 1953, pp. 267-303
  • Observations on the recent geological development of Anatolia (examples from the Aegean and Central Anatolia) . Geol. Jb., 76, Hannover 1959, pp. 325-334
  • Geological map of Afghanistan, Central and Southern Part 1: 1,000,000 , Hannover 1964
  • On the regional geological position of the Afghan mountains. Introduction and general overview. In: Geology in Northeast and Central Afghanistan , Geol. Jb., 70, Bh., Hannover 1964, pp. 5–18 (with Gottfried Gabert, Carsten Hinze, Dietrich Weippert and Klaus Fesefeldt)

Individual evidence

  1. Gottfried Gabert: Daniel Wirtz † (1914-1965) , Geol. Jb. 84, Hannover 1967, XXXVII - XL
  2. ^ Gerhard Paul , Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (ed.): Menorah and swastika: on the history of the Jews in and from Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck and Altona (1918–1998). Neumünster: Wacholtz 1998 ISBN 3-529-06149-2 page 241f.
  3. Gottfried Gabert: Daniel Wirtz † (1914-1965) , Geol. Jb. 84, Hannover 1967, XXXVIII f.

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