Franz Lotze

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Franz Wilhelm Lotze (born April 27, 1903 in Amelunxen ; † February 23, 1971 in Münster ) was a German geologist and from 1948 to 1968 director of the Geological and Paleontological Institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster.

Lotze studied in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1928 for the work “The Middle Devon of the Wennetal north of the Elsper Mulde”. In 1932 he became a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1937 to 1941 he explored deposits in Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

He researched the geological properties of Spain (including stratigraphy of the Cambrian and Precambrian ) as well as the conditions for coal and salt mining in Germany . He edited the standard work on the geology of Central Europe by Paul Dorn , which first appeared in 1951.

From 1941 to 1945 he headed the Federal Geological Institute in Vienna (at that time the Vienna branch of the Reich Office for Soil Research).

Lotze had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1939 . In 1955 he received the Hans Stille Medal . Roland Walter is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

  • Geology, Berlin, De Gruyter, Göschen Collection, 5th edition 1973 (first 1955)
  • with Paul Dorn: Geologie Mitteleuropas, Schweizerbart, 4th edition 1971 (7th edition 2007 completely revised by Roland Walter)
  • Stratigraphy and tectonics of the Celtiberian basement (Spain), Abh. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, Math-Naturwiss. Class, 1929
  • Rock salt and potash salts, Borntraeger 1957
  • On the geology of the subsidence zone of the Holy Sea (Tecklenburg district), Abh. Landesmuseum Naturkunde Münster, Volume 18, 1957
  • He was editor of the handbook of stratigraphic geology , Enke Verlag, from 1959

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personal data
SURNAME Lotze, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotze, Franz Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Amelunxes
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1971
Place of death Muenster