Friedhelm Thiedig

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Friedhelm Thiedig (born April 7, 1933 in Blumberg ) is a German geologist .

Life

In 1945 the family fled from the approaching Soviet troops to Erfurt in Thuringia .

Friedhelm Thiedig was already interested in geology when he was still at school , in 1951 he graduated from the Erfurt high school " Zur Himmelspforte ". In August 1951 he had the opportunity to work as a helper in the excavation of Eocene vertebrates in the Geiseltal open- cast lignite mine in the Saalekreis . Brokered by Hans Gallwitz (1896–1958) from the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Friedhelm Thiedig received a place at the Geological Institute in Halle in September 1951.

In March 1952 he was approached by a fellow student as to whether he was ready to work in a student resistance group. Friedhelm Thiedig took part in the so-called "letter campaigns"; H. in the distribution of the satirical magazine Tarantel and the leaflets of the Combat Group against Inhumanity (KgU). In April 1952, the entire group was arrested. Friedhelm Thiedig was sentenced to a relatively mild sentence of 3.5 years, which he served in the prison in Torgau , because he had not belonged to the group for long and had only taken part in a few actions .

After Thiedig was released from prison in October 1955, he was assigned a job as a bottler in a shoe polish factory in his place of residence in Erfurt . He did not start this work. Although he only had an ID card with restricted validity to the Erfurt district, he traveled to Berlin and left the GDR for the west at the end of October. He continued his geology studies in Tübingen , did his doctorate (dissertation: The southern framework of the Saualpen-Kristallin in Carinthia ) and later completed his habilitation in Hamburg .

In 1986 Friedhelm Thiedig was appointed to the chair for historical and regional geology of the earth at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Expeditions led him a. a. to Carinthia , Spitsbergen in the north of Iran , for the Geographic North Pole and to Libya , where he participated in the discovery of Quaternary lake sediments during the warm interglacial periods was involved. In 2003 he was awarded the Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Carinthia . Even after his retirement in 1997, Friedhelm Thiedig went on numerous excursions, including a. to Libya, Madagascar and Antarctica .

He is married and has three children. He lives with his wife Elke in Norderstedt .

Fonts (selection)

  • Experiences on June 17, 1953 as a political prisoner in Torgau / Elbe prison. In: 17juni53.de. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
  • Trip to the Geographical North Pole and Franz Josef Land (2005) - with a description of the Klagenfurt Islands and the strikingly large stone spheres east of Cape Fiume on Champ Island (FJL). In: Carinthia II. 196/116. Volume, Klagenfurt 2006, pp. 9–32 ( PDF (11.2 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
  • Geology and tectonics of the Magdalensberg and distribution of the Old Paleozoic in Central Carinthia (Austria). In: Carinthia II. 195./115. Volume, Klagenfurt 2005, ISBN 3-85328-036-6 , pp. 97–156 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • with Gudrun Frohnert: The Ulrichsberg - a relief reversal. Geological structure and geological development of the "mons carantanus" on the outskirts of Klagenfurt. In: Carinthia II. 198./118. Year, Klagenfurt 2008, pp. 47–82 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

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SURNAME Thiedig, Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Blumberg