Dodo Wildvang

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Dodo Wildvang (born September 24, 1873 in Groß-Midlum , Ostfriesland ; † November 12, 1940 ) was a German teacher and local researcher who is known for researching the geology of East Frisia.

Life

In addition to his work as a teacher in Upleward, Wildvang initially examined the marshland at the mouth of the Ems and the Dollart , teaching himself the necessary scientific methods in self-study. This resulted in two books in 1911 and 1915. In 1925 he gave up his job as a teacher because of a hearing impairment and became a (voluntary) employee of the Prussian Geological State Office, for which he geologically mapped East Frisia (27 maps at a scale of 1: 25,000). To do this, he carried out around 60,000 holes. In 1938 his Geology of East Frisia was published .

In 1940 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen. Streets in Upleward, Emden and Weener are named after him.

With the botanist Ferdinand Dewers (1889–1961), Heinrich Schütte , the diatom researcher Christoph Brockmann (1878–1962) from Bremerhaven, the teacher and explorer of the East Frisian islands Otto Leege (1862–1951), the Wilhelmshaven port construction director Wilhelm Krüger (1871–1940) ) and the director of electricity construction in Bremen Ludwig Plate (1883–1967), he was the founder of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Norddeutscher Geologen (working group of north German geologists at that time) in 1927.

Fonts

  • A prehistoric catastrophe on the German North Sea coast and its influence on the later design of the Alluviall landscape between the Ley and the Dollart , Emden and Borkum, Haynel 1911
  • The alluvium between the Ley and the northern Dollart coast , self-published by Aurich 1915
  • Attempt to integrate the East Frisian marshland marshes into the alluvial profile and the resulting consequences in relation to soil fluctuations, Jb. Preuss. Geolog. Landesamt, Volume 54, 1934, pp. 642-685
  • The deeper subsurface of the East Frisian North Sea islands , Verein Naturwiss. Gesellschaft Emden, 1936, pp. 1-56
  • The geology of East Friesland , Abh. Preuss Geolog. State Office, New Series, Issue 181, 1938 (211 pages, with geological overview map 1: 100,000).
  • The Reiderland - a geological, generally understandable treatise , self-published, Aurich 1920.

literature

  • Peter Zylmann: Dodo Wildvang 1873-1940 . In: Otto Heinrich May (ed.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder, Vol. 3, Hildesheim: Lax 1957, pp. 358–369
  • Hansjörg Streif : The East Frisian coastal area , collection of geological guides, Borntraeger, Volume 57, 2nd edition 1990, p. 4f
  • Hansjörg Streif: Dodo Wildvang's findings and interpretations of the geology of the Emsmündungsgebiet from today's perspective . Publications Naturforsch. Ges. Emden, 1984, Contributions to Geology 1, pp. 1-34

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Founder of the AG North German Geologists .
personal data
SURNAME Wildvang, dodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Midlum , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1940