Dierk Henningsen

Dierk Henningsen (born September 12, 1935 in Kiel ) is a German geologist .

Life

Henningsen went to the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Kiel and studied geology in Kiel, at the Free University of Berlin and at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen , where he received his doctorate in 1961 on sub-carbonic Grauwacken in the Lahn valley (especially the area around Gießen) and himself Habilitation in 1965. As a post-doctoral student he did a research stay in Costa Rica and taught in Giessen and Hanover (New Hampshire) (USA). In 1970 he became a professor at the University of Cologne and from 1971 he was professor at the Leibniz University in Hanover , where he retired in 2001.

Henningsen mainly dealt with sedimentary rocks, regional geology (especially Germany) and in Hanover also focused on training civil engineers and engineering geologists. His book on the geology of Germany is a standard work.

In 2006 he received the Hans Stille Medal . From 1991 to 1993 he was chairman of the German Geological Society (DGG) and organized its general meeting in Hanover in 1987.

Fonts

• with Gerhard Katzung Introduction to the Geology of Germany , Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 7th edition 2006, ISBN 3827415861 (it emerged from his Introduction to the Geology of the Federal Republic of Germany , first published in 1976 by Enke Verlag).
• Geology for civil engineers. An introduction , Springer Verlag, 3rd edition 2002
• Paleogeographical interpretation of prehistoric deposits , BI university scripts, BI Verlag, Mannheim 1969

literature

• Immo Schülke: Dierk Henningsen Festschrift , Hanover, Institute for Geology and Paleontology, Geological Contributions Hanover, Volume 2, 2001 (Groetzner p. 5–11 on Henningsen)

Web links

• On the award of the Silent Medal to Henningsen, laudation by Dieter Stoppel (PDF file; 526 kB)