Erich Bederke

Erich Bederke (born June 3, 1895 in Grünberg , Silesia , † April 19, 1978 in Göttingen ) was a German geologist .

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Bederke, born in Grünberg in 1895 , studied chemistry and physics from 1913 and geology at the University of Breslau from 1917 , where he was a student of Hans Cloos . There he completed his habilitation in 1923 and was a private lecturer. During his studies he became a member of the Leopoldina Breslau singers in 1913/14 . In 1931 he became professor and director of the Institute of Geology and Paleontology in Breslau. At the end of the Second World War, he arranged for the evacuation of a large part of the geological-paleontological collections from Wroclaw, which thus survived the war. Before the Russian occupation in 1945, he fled to West Germany, where he became a full professor of geology in Göttingen in 1946. He was also the curator of the geoscientific collections there.

Bederke initially dealt with the geology of the ( Variscan ) Sudetes , where he demonstrated an influence of the Caledonian mountain formation in the central and western Sudetes . In West Germany, for example, he turned to the geology of the Spessart .

The Geological Association e. V. awarded the Gustav Steinmann Medal to Erich Bederke in 1963 in recognition of his services to research into the “geology and geophysics of the depths”. And in 1948 he received the Hans Stille Medal . He had been a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1946 and a member of the Leopoldina Academic Academy since 1961 .

Martin Schwarzbach is one of his PhD students and Alfred Neuhaus (1903–1975) is one of his Habilitation students .

Awards

• 1948: Honored with the Hans Stille Medal
• 1963: Honored with the Gustav Steinmann Medal

Fonts

• The Devonian in Silesia and the Age of the Sudeten Folding, Advances in Geology and Paleontology, Volume 2, 1924, pp. 1-50.
• On the mountain construction of the central Sudetes, Geol. Rundschau, Volume 18, 1927, pp. 225–229.
• The border between East and West Sudetes and their significance for the classification of the Sudetes in the mountainous structure of Central Europe, Geolog. Rundschau, Volume 20, 1929, p. 186.
• The tectonic and magmatic position of the Silesian Syenites, Journal for Crystallography and Mineralogy, 1928, p. 500.
• The varistic tectonics of the central Sudetes. Stratigraphic and petrographic-tectonic investigations in the Owl Mountains Group, Advances in Geology and Paleontology, Volume 23, 1929, pp. 1–150.
• Upper Silesia and the Variscan Mountains, Geolog. Rundschau, Volume 21, 1930, p. 234.
• Sudetenrand and owl gneiss problem, publications of the Silesian Society for Geography, Volume 21, 1934, pp. 351-366.
• with K. Fricke: The Lower Silesian Region (Innersudetisches Steinkohlenbecken), Essen, Deutscher Steinkohlenbergbau, Volume 1, 1942, pp. 227–242.
• Age and metamorphosis of the crystalline basement in the Spessart, treatises of the Hessian State Office for Soil Research, Volume 18, 1957, pp. 7-19.
• The Plutonism of the Fold Mountains, Nachr. Akad. Wiss. Göttingen, Math. Natural Sciences. Class, 1952, p. 7.
• with Hans Georg Wunderlich : Atlas of Geology , Meyer's Great Physical World Atlas Volume 2, Mannheim, Bibliographisches Institut 1968.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Bederke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Museum of Geology Wroclaw, with biography, Polish
• Brief biography at the Faculty of Geosciences in Göttingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 91.
2. ↑ So the somewhat floral official tribute. Erich Bederke at Geologische Vereinigung e. V.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 34.