Fritz Frech

Fritz Daniel Frech (born March 26, 1861 in Berlin , † September 28, 1917 in Aleppo , Ottoman Empire , today Syria ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Frech began studying natural sciences at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in 1880 . His teachers in geography, geology and paleontology were among others Heinrich Ernst Beyrich , Wilhelm Dames and later at the University of Bonn Ferdinand von Richthofen . In 1885 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a thesis on the corals of Germany from the Upper Devonian . At the University of Halle , he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the Devonian for geology and paleontology. In 1891 he was appointed to the University of Breslau in the same subjects , and in 1897 he was appointed full professor there.

Frech became President of the International Commission for the Paleontologia Universalis. In August 1912 he was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society and became the first vice-president together with Josef Felix Pompeckj . During the First World War he was assigned to the German army command at the Asian Corps on the Syrian front as chief geologist , but died in Aleppo after a few weeks.

Dietrich von Schlechtendal named the fringed winged Hemithrips cheeky in his honor ( Schlechtendal , 1887).

Research areas

In addition to general geological questions, Frech extensively researched Faunas from the Devonian, such as corals, graptolites , mussels, brachiopods and ammonites . Further work dealt with the Alpine region and economic-geographic issues, e.g. B. in Upper Silesia , Ukraine and Turkey and their provinces such as Armenia and Mesopotamia .

Fonts

• About the limestone framework of the tetra corals , in Journal of the German Geological Society 37, 1885
• The Rhenish Lower Devon and the position of the Herzyn , there 41, 1889
• The Triassic Coral Fauna , in Palaeontographica 43, 1896
• Geology of the Radstädter Tauern , 1901
• From the prehistory of the earth , 1910
• Germany's coal fields and coal stocks , 1912.
• General geology , also in 6 volumes. BG Teubner Leipzig / Berlin 1914
  • Volume 6 as reprint: General Geology, Volume 6 , 2011, ISBN 978-1-247-21555-6 .
• Coal distress and coal supplies in the World War , 1915.
• Geology of Asia Minor In the Baghdad Railway area . Results of my own trips, comparative studies and paleontological investigations , 1916.
• with A. Hänig and A. Sack: Basics of Turkish economic rejuvenation , G. Reimer, Berlin 1916.
• The theater of war in Armenia and Mesopotamia . Teubner, Leipzig 1916.
• with Friedrich Aereboe : The importance of Ukraine for the world war . On behalf of the Association of German Supporters of the Ukrainian Freedom Movement «Ukraine». Lehmann, Munich 1917.
• Means of power in the world war: oil, coal and iron . Korn, Breslau 1917.

Cooperation

• Manual: Lethea geognostica. Handbook of geological history with illustrations of the fossils characteristic of the formations . E. Schweizerbarth'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (E. Nägele), Stuttgart
  • T1, Volume 1, 1897; T1, Vol. 2, 1902; T3, Volume 2, Dept. 1, 1904.

literature

• Alexander von Schouppé:  Frech, Fritz Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 384 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914