Ferdinand Dewers

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Ferdinand Dewers (* 1889 ; † 1961 ) was a German botanist and geologist.

During his studies in 1908 he became a member of the Alemannia Freiburg fraternity . Dewers received his doctorate in botany at the University of Strasbourg in 1913 ( studies on the distribution of geotropic sensitivity on roots and sprouts ). Since 1920 he was a high school teacher in Bremen ( teacher and later director of studies) and geological researcher for Lower Saxony. During the Second World War he served as a military geologist . As a geologist, he dealt particularly with the Dümmer and the terminal moraines surrounding it and with drifting sand formation in Lower Saxony.

He was the driving force behind the founding of the Working Group of North German Geologists (then North West German Geologists) in 1927.

Fonts

  • with Karl Gripp , Fritz Overbeck The Cenozoic in Lower Saxony (Tertiary, Diluvium, Alluvium and Moore) , Geology and Deposits of Lower Saxony Volume 3, series of publications by Wirtschaftswiss. Ges. Zum Studium Niedersachsen, Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1941 (from Dewers Diluvium and Alluvium ), 2nd edition Bremen-Horn 1950

literature

  • Wilhelm Dienemann Ferdinand Dewers in memory , Abh. Naturwiss. Bremen Association, Volume 36, 1964, pp. 183–191.
  • Eckehart Löhnert On the history of the Northwest German Geologists ' Working Group , Part 2, Geohistorische Blätter, Volume 3, 2000, p. 115, PDF.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 83.
  2. ↑ Founder of the AG North German Geologists
personal data
SURNAME Dewers, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
DATE OF DEATH 1961