Georg Matthess

Georg Matthess , correct: Mattheß (born February 28, 1932 in Darmstadt ; † November 19, 2017 there ) was a German hydrogeologist . He was a professor at the University of Kiel and director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute.

Matthess received his doctorate in Darmstadt in 1957 and completed his habilitation in Frankfurt am Main in 1970. He was at the Hessian State Office for Soil Research (from 1966 as senior government geologist, from 1970 as government director) and from mid-1972 headed the applied geology and hydrogeology department. In 1973 he became a full professor and director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute in Kiel. In 1997 he retired.

He wrote several standard works on hydrogeology and dealt in particular with the influence of geological factors on the purity of groundwater.

In 1990 he received the Hans Stille Medal . From 1979 to 1987 he was President of the International Commission of Water Quality. In 1984 he became an honorary member of the Association of Hydrologists of India. He was an external member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) in Krakow . In 1998, Matthess became Dr. hc from the University of Gent .

Since 1953 he was a member of the Darmstädter Wingolf student union , since 1978 also of the Kiel Wingolf.

Fonts

• The properties of Ground Water , Wiley 1982 (translation of the quality of the groundwater , Textbook of hydrogeology, Volume 2)
• as editor: Textbook of Hydrogeology , several volumes, Gebrüder Borntraeger, of which by Matthess: Volume 1 with Károly Ubell (General Hydrogeology, Groundwater Balance), 1983, 2nd Edition, 2003, Volume 2 (The Condition of Groundwater), 1973, 3rd. Edition 1994
• as editor of the transport and degradation behavior of pesticides in seepage and groundwater , series of publications by the Association for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene, Volume 100, Stuttgart, G. Fischer 1997
• Relationship between geological structure and groundwater movement in solid rock , treatises by the Hessian State Office for Soil Research, Volume 58, 1970
• On the geology of the oil shale deposits of Messel near Darmstadt , treatises of the Hessian State Office for Soil Research, Volume 51, 1966
• Origin of sulfate ions in groundwater , Hessian State Office for Soil Research, 1961
• Geological and hydrochemical investigations in the eastern Front Palatinate between Worms and Speyer , Notes Hessisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung, Volume 86, 1958, pp. 335–378
• as editor: Progress in hydrogeochemistry: organics, carbonate systems, silicate systems, microbiology, models , Springer Verlag 1992
• with others: Lifespan of bacteria and viruses in aquifers: summarized final report - Investigations of the lifespan of bacteria and viruses in groundwater with regard to the designation of protected areas for the groundwater extraction systems , on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency, Berlin 1985

literature

• Dahmke / Schafmeister / Schulz: Georg Mattheß, 1932-2017 , obituary in: Geoscientific Mitteilungen, no. 70, p. 119; ARGE GMIT, 2017
• Dahmke / Schafmeister / Schulz: Georg Mattheß, 1932-2017 , obituary in: Grundwasser, Bd. 23, H. 1, S. 106f; Springer-Verlag, 2018
• Schafmeister, M.-Th .: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Georg Mattheß: University professor and hydrogeologist , in: Groundwater, vol. 17, no. 4, p. 249ff; Springer-Verlag, 2012