Franz Kockel

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Franz Kockel (born April 23, 1934 in Leipzig ; † March 20, 2015 ) was a German geologist who was an expert in the geotectonic structure of northern Germany .

Kockel, the son of geology professor Carl Walter Kockel (1898–1966), studied in Marburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, London and Bonn and received his doctorate in geology from the University of Bonn under Roland Brinkmann in 1960 ( The geology of the area between Rio Guadalhorce and the plateau from Ronda (southern Spain) ). He was then until his retirement in 1999 at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hanover , most recently as Geology Director. Afterwards he also advised the BGR and the Geophysical Institute in Karlsruhe.

In addition to northern Germany (where he also examined the tectonics with regard to petroleum geology) he also worked on Africa (Uganda, Ethiopia), Spain and northern Greece.

In 2005 he received the Serge von Bubnoff Medal of the German Geological Society and in 1994 the Hans Stille Medal . He also received the Van Waterschoot van der Gracht Medal (2000), a medal from Adam Mickiewicz University and an honorary member of the Polish Geological Society.

Fonts

  • Contributions to W. Schott: Palaeogeographical Atlas of the Lower Cretaceous of Northwest Germany , Federal Institute for Soil Research 1967, 1969 (therein with J. Stets, sections Hauterive, Valendis)
  • Contributions to R. Vinkenem: The Northwest European Tertiary Basin , Project IGCP No. 124, Hannover, 1988
  • Structural and Palaeogeographical Development of the German North Sea Sector , Borntraeger 1995 (Contributions to the Regional Geology of the Earth, Volume 26)
  • with Reinhard Baldschuhn, Franz Binot, Stephanie Fleig: Geotectonic Atlas of Northwest Germany and the German North Sea Sector: Structures, Structural Development , Palaeogeography , Scale 1: 300,000, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials, 2001 as CD-Rom in Geological Yearbook, series A, volume 153
  • with Ursula Frisch: The Bremen node in the structural network of Northwest Germany: Stratigraphy, paleogeography, structural geology , reports from the Geosciences Department of the University of Bremen, No. 223, 2004

literature

  • Jolanta Kus, Heinz-Gerd Röhling , Simone Röhling: Obituary in Przeglad Geologiczny, Volume 63, 2015, No. 6 (Polish)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bubnoff Medal to Kockel, pdf
personal data
SURNAME Kockel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2015