Ehrhard Voigt

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Ehrhard Voigt (born July 28, 1905 in Schönebeck (Elbe) , † November 22, 2004 in Hamburg ) was a German geologist and paleontologist . He was an expert on bryozoa .

life and work

From 1924 Voigt studied geology , paleontology , mineralogy , chemistry and zoology in Halle (with Johannes Walther , Johannes Weigelt ), Munich (with Erich Kaiser , Karl Boden , Ferdinand Broili , Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach , Edgar Dacqué ) and Greifswald . In 1929 he received his doctorate from Weigelt in Halle (The lithogenesis of the shallow and deep water sediments of the younger Upper Chalk Sea) and became an extraordinary assistant at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Halle. From 1930 to 1934 he led excavations in the Geiseltal . He joined the NSDAP in May 1933 and was a member of the SA from November 1933 . In 1939 he was initially entrusted with holding the chair for geology and paleontology at the University of Hamburg . A little later appointed as a regular associate professor, he became a full professor in 1942. Drafted in 1939, he worked as a Wehrmacht geologist, most recently in Courland. He returned from Soviet captivity in 1946 and devoted himself to the reconstruction of the Geological Institute in Hamburg, which was completely destroyed in 1943. In 1939 he succeeded Roland Brinkmann as director of the State Geological Institute and in 1970 he retired.

Voigt began collecting fossils as a teenager and published his first scientific work on Cretaceous bryozoa as early as 1923 at the age of eighteen, and bryzoans were later his main area of ​​work. At a young age he had established international contacts in Europe (F. Canu in France) and the USA (RS Bassler) and the sale of special collections gave him foreign currency and a certain financial independence during the inflationary period of the early 1920s. In 1934 he wrote his habilitation thesis on Eocene fish from the Geiseltal near Halle (Saale) . In order to recover the then almost unpräparierbaren, small vertebrate finds the Geiseltal, he invented in 1930 the so-called lacquer film method , today geologic will help in the world layer sequences (soil and sediment profiles), for example, sand and gravel pits, as well as fingerprints documented become.

Voigt was one of the leading representatives of bed load history , co-founded the Society for bed load research in 1924 and was the first honorary member of the Society for bed bed studies . He was particularly concerned with bryozoa . He has described more than 50 new species of bryozoa from bed load, including 4 types of new genera.

Ehrhard Voigt's collection, which represents the world's richest Upper Cretaceous-Old Tertiary bryozoa , has been deposited in the Senckenberg Natural History Museum since his death . It also includes bryozoa of the Lower Cretaceous , the Jurassic , the Young Tertiary , the Paleozoic and recent comparative material from various regions.

He also published on geology, for example from Skåne and to rubble iron ore deposits in the northwest Harz.

In 1939 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was one of the founders of the International Bryzoology Association (IBA) in Stockholm in 1965 . In 1960 he received the Hans Stille Medal and in 1961 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Bordeaux. He was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , the Royal Geographical Society in Lund, the Academy of Catania and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences . In 1973 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society . In 1984 he became a member of the Joachim Jungius Society . In 1988 he received the Jungius Medal.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the bryozoal fauna of the subhercyne chalk basin. In: Paleontological Journal. Volume 6, 1924, pp. 93-173
  • with Kurt Hucke : Introduction to bed load research. Oldenzaal 1967

literature

  • Roger Schallreuter: Ehrhard Voigt † In: Geschiebekunde aktuell. Volume 21, No. 1, February 2005, pp. 2-4.
  • Gero Hillmer: Ehrhard Voigt. July 28, 1905 - November 22, 2004. In: Contributions to bryozoology: a tribute to Ehrhard Voigt (1905-2004). Edited by Joachim Scholz, Paul D. Taylor, Norbert Vavra (= Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg , 257), Stuttgart 2006, pp. 1-6.
  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 445

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The transfer of fossil vertebrate corpses to cellulose film, a new recovery method for vertebrates from lignite. In: Paleontological Journal. Volume 15, 1933, pp. 72-78.
    The lacquer film method, its meaning and application in paleontology, sediment petrography and soil science. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Volume 88, 1936, pp. 272-292.
    The application of the paint film method in the recovery of geological and pedological profiles. In: Mitt. Geolog. State Institute Hamburg. Volume 19, 1949, pp. 111-149.
  2. ↑ Ehrhard Voigt's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  3. ^ Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences: Members. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Ehrhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönebeck (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 2004
Place of death Hamburg