Georg Fischer (geologist)

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Georg Fischer (born November 15, 1899 in Neuburg an der Donau ; † November 12, 1984 ) was a German geologist , petrograph , mineralogist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Georg Fischer, son of the higher regional court counselor Anton Fischer, graduate student at the Wittelsbacher-Gymnasium in Munich , devoted himself from 1919 to the studies of chemistry , geology and mineralogy at the University of Munich and after participating as a volunteer in the First World War , in which two of his brothers died became, like his brothers, a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich . In 1924 he was at Erich Kaiser to Dr. phil. PhD . In addition to Kaiser, Ferdinand Broili , Paul von Groth , Ernst Weinschenk and Maximilian Weber were his academic teachers. In 1927 he completed his habilitation there as a private lecturer in the subject of petrography (the gabbroamphibolite mass of Neunkirchen near Holy Blood and its framework) and then went to the Prussian State Geological Institute (PGLA), where he was an extra geologist in 1929, a district geologist in 1938 and (at what is now the Reich Office for Soil Research ) became a government geologist in 1943. Fischer then moved to Berlin as a geologist at the Reich Office for Soil Research. In 1936 he took up a lectureship at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität after re-qualification . During the Second World War , he examined deposits in France, Spain, Portugal, Norway and Bohemia.

After the Second World War he became a works geologist in the Bayerland mine in 1945 and from 1946 to 1948 a government geologist at the State Institute for Water Supply in Munich. In 1948 he accepted a full professorship and head of the Institute for Geology at the University of Munich, which he held until his retirement (1968).

At the PGLA, he mapped the Sudetes (Eulengebirge, Glatzer Grundgebirge), the Harz Mountains and the East Bavarian Basement Mountains and dealt with rock metamorphosis and applied geology. As a professor at the University of Munich, he mainly dealt with the eastern Bavarian basement and the mechanisms of the formation of the earth's crust, with an interdisciplinary approach with a focus on petrography. He recognized the importance of his friend Bruno Sander's structural methods early on and applied them. He also promoted geochronology (radiometric age determination) at his institute.

From 1959 to 1961 he was chairman of the Geological Association in Bonn , whose Gustav Steinmann Medal he received in 1972 for "significant contributions to the exploration of the metamorphic basement and the deeper earth's crust" (laudatory speech). Georg Fischer was also a member of the Bavarian State Commission for the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Forces and an advisory board to the highest nature conservation authority in Bavaria .

Georg Fischer married Friederike, née Brugger, in 1927, with whom he had daughters Veronika and Johanna.

Fonts

  • To know the origin of the stone marls in the Franconian colorful Keuper. In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology. Supplement 51, pp. 413-476 ( dissertation , University of Munich, 1924).
  • The gabbro amphibolite mass from Neukirchen a. St. Bl. And its frame (a regional geological study). In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology. Beilageband 60 (1929), Abt. A., pp. 251-396 ( habilitation thesis , University of Munich, 1929).
  • The rocks of the metamorphic zone of Wippra with special consideration of the green slate . Sales office of the Prussian State Geological Institute, Berlin 1929.
  • About the genesis and future mining possibilities of the Central Devonian red iron ores in the Brilon area . Sales office of the Prussian State Geological Institute, Berlin 1929.
  • with J. Udluft: Uniform naming of sedimentary rocks. Yearbook PGLA, 56, 1935, pp. 517-538.
  • Geological structure and mineral resources of the Bavarian Forest. PGLA yearbook, 58, 1937.
  • The Bavarian and Bohemian Forest. The evolution of its landscape over the course of geological history. Yearbook PGLA, 59, 1938, pp. 55-82.
  • Granite and sial. Geologische Rundschau, 39, 1951, pp. 32-77.
  • The lower crust from the point of view of the petrograph. Geologische Rundschau, 56, 1957, pp. 130-136.
  • The earth lives. Journal of the German Geological Society, 111, 1959, pp. 579-598.
  • About the Moldanubic of the Bavarian Upper Palatinate and the Bavarian Forest. 16. Special issue Der Aufschluss, on the mineralogy and geology of the Upper Palatinate. 1967, pp. 27-111.
  • with Georg Troll: Construction plan and structural development of metamorphic and igneous rocks in the Bavarian Forest. Geologica Bavarica, 68, 1973, pp. 7-44.
  • On the development of ideas in geology and petrography in the 19th century. In: W. Treue, K. Mauel (Ed.): Natural science, technology and economy in the 19th century, part 2. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1976, pp. 798–918.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ VAC: Kösener Corpslist 1930 . Ed .: VAC. P. 1061, Corps No. 106, 1446, Munich January 1930, p. 1061 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist, mineralogist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1984