Ernst Ackermann (geologist)

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Ernst Hermann Ackermann (born August 14, 1906 in Berlin ; † December 30, 2003 in Göttingen ) was a German geologist .

Life

Ackermann studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Göttingen . In 1930 he received his doctorate in Leipzig under Carl Walter Kockel on the chalk in the Preslav anticlinory in Eastern Bulgaria . After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a prospector for the Anglo-American South Africa Co. and the British South Africa Co. in East and South Africa until 1933. After 1933 he worked as an assistant and lecturer at the University of Leipzig, especially at the Geological-Palaeontological Institute, where he passed the first state examination at the Prussian Geological Institute in Berlin a year later .

From 1940 until the end of the Second World War , Ackermann worked as chief geologist and chief engineering geologist for the Todt Organization in Norway . During his work he described thixotropy and its application in engineering geology. In 1947 he became a lecturer and in 1953 an adjunct professor at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Göttingen. Later he taught at the forestry faculty in Hannoversch Münden . He lived in Bovenden .

Ernst Ackermann was a member of the scientific advisory board of the "German Africa Society", the German Geological Society and a member of the Geological Association , in which he was secretary from 1948 to 1957 . Ackermann was significantly involved in the discovery of the Irumid orrogen and the research of other Precambrian fold mountains in Africa and was significantly involved in the publication of the Africa map series of the German Research Foundation .

literature

  • Walter Habel: Who is who? , Vol. 1 (West), Berlin 1967, p. 4
  • German Society for Geosciences: Obituary Ernst Ackermann , GMIT, issue 16

Selected Works

  • On the stratigraphy and structure of the Irumiden-Orogen , Central Africa, Zeitsch. German. Geol. Gesell., Volume 112, Berlin 1960, pp. 568-592
  • together with Hans Murawski, Reinhard Förster: Afrika-Kartenwerk: Geologie. Sheet 3. German Research Foundation (Ed.) Borntraeger, Stuttgart


personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ackermann, Ernst Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2003
Place of death Goettingen