Ernst Zimmermann (geologist, 1882)

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Ernst Zimmermann (* 1882 in Schwelm ; † 1943 in Flatow ) was a German geologist.

biography

Zimmermann was the son of the elementary school teacher and naturalist Ernst Zimmermann of the same name . He studied geology in Berlin and Göttingen with Paul Krusch and Otto Jaekel, among others . In 1910 he received his doctorate in Berlin ("Kohlenkalk und Kulm des Velberter Saddle in the south of the Westphalian Carboniferous"). From 1911 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA). In 1922 he became a mountain ridge and in 1928 a district geologist. He was with the PGLA until 1939. During the Second World War he moved from Berlin to Flatow in Pomerania because of the bombing raids.

He first mapped the Lower Rhine, mainly in the Pleistocene (Diluvian) and Tertiary, but also in the Carboniferous below, later in Western Pomerania and Silesia (also mainly in the Tertiary). He also published about paleontological finds from the Tertiary, for example, the Lower Rhine lignite and paleolithic finds.

In 1927 he married Gerda Barunke.

There is another geologist with this name at the PGLA ( Ernst Zimmermann ).

Fonts

  • Animal fossils, in: Walther Gothan , Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.), Vegetable and animal fossils of the German brown coal storage, Halle: Wilhelm Knapp 1919
  • About the carbon on the Lower Rhine, PGLA yearbook, Volume 46, 1926, pp. 540-575
  • Loess and decking sand on the southern edge of the Lower Rhine Bay, PGLA yearbook, Volume 39, 1919, pp. 155–179
  • Alluvial subsidence on the Lower Rhine, derived from the distribution of the fens, yearbook PGLA, Volume 49, 1928, pp. 279–303
  • Basaltic tuff eruptions in the recent loess period on the southern edge of the Neuwied Basin near Ochtendung, Blatt Bassenheim, PGLA yearbook, Volume 58, 1931, pp. 602–604
  • Tectonics of the Lower Rhine Salt Mountains, Kali, Volume 24, 1935, pp. 113–115
  • Quartertectonics and their phases, Z. Deutsche Geolog. Ges., Vol. 95, 1943, pp. 217-222

literature

  • Lutz Koch: Ernst Zimmermann, father and son, contributions to local history of the town of Schwelm and the surrounding area, NF, Volume 53, 2004, pp. 41–46, pdf
  • Obituary in the Geological Yearbook Volume 67, 1953, p. 19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in PGLA yearbook, Volume 30, 1909, pp. 369-432
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Złotów