Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer
Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer (born June 23, 1940 in Lübeck ) is a German geologist who dealt in particular with deposit research and economic geology. From 1996 to 2005 he was President of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) and the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research in Hanover.
Wellmer studied mining and geology at the TU Berlin and the TU Clausthal , where he received his doctorate in 1970 ( use of piezoelectric measurements on quartz-containing rocks in structural science ). He then worked as a geologist in the exploration of deposits for ores, industrial minerals and coal for Metallgesellschaft AG until 1986. He was abroad a lot, especially in Australia and Canada. This was interrupted from 1979 to 1982 for three years as a speaker at the Federal Ministry of Economics in Bonn. In 1987 he went to BGR, where he became head of the Economic Geology and International Cooperation Department in 1987 and President in 1996. In the latter function, he also led the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research . As President of the BGR, he campaigned for increased international cooperation. In 2005 he retired.
He is an honorary doctor of the Bergakademie Freiberg and the TU Clausthal and has been an honorary professor at the TU Berlin since 1991.
In 2005 he received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal of the DGG for his services in merging the Society for Geosciences (GGW) of the former GDR and the German Geological Society (DGG), of which Wellmer was president, to form the German Society for Geosciences (DGG ). In 2016 he was elected an extraordinary member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( acatech ).
Wellmer is also President of the Academy for Geosciences and Geotechnologies e. V.
Fonts
- Living with the Earth: Contributions of geological services to services of general interest and sustainable development , Springer Verlag 1999
- Calculations for mineral deposits and raw materials economists , Clausthaler tektonische Hefte, No. 22 and 26, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, Cologne, Von Loga 1992 (first Clausthal, Pilger 1985)
- with Helmfried Lechner, Carl-Wolfgang Sames Mineral raw materials in transition: a contribution to the development of mining investments and to demand behavior , Essen, Verlag Glückauf 1987
- Editor: The State Geological Services: Strategies, Personalities, History , Geological Yearbook, Series, G, Volume 11, 2004
- Creativity needs opportunities to develop . In: FAZ . May 2015: "326 times in 143 boreholes has been fracked without complications in Germany since 1961. "
Web links
- Biography at the brown coal forum
- Biography at BGR
- Literature by and about Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wellmer, Friedrich-Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |