Georg Wagner (geologist)

Georg Wagner (born July 26, 1885 in Künzelsau , † July 11, 1972 in Tübingen ) was a German geologist and university professor.

Life

Georg Wagner first attended the training school of the teachers' college in his hometown, where he was also trained as a primary school teacher. He worked in this profession until 1905, including in Künzelsau, Heilbronn and Öhringen . It was not until 1906 that he passed his Abitur in Schwäbisch Hall and, after his military service, studied mathematics and natural sciences in Tübingen and Munich until 1910 . The geology was going to be major. In his dissertation in 1911 he dealt with issues of shell limestone in Franconia .

Then he worked again as a teacher where he worked at the secondary school in Schwäbisch Hall and then worked as a professor at the teachers' seminar in Nagold . During the First World War he was an infantry officer.

In 1925 he became a professor of chemistry , geology and biology at the secondary school in Stuttgart . During this time, he privately researched the geology, in particular of the Swabian-Franconian layer level country, as well as the history of the landscape in southwest Germany. During this time he also gave regular lectures at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and at the Hohenheim University of Applied Sciences . As a member of the Swabian Alb Association in 1940, Wagner became editor of its organ, the sheets of the Swabian Alb Association ; at the time under the chairman of the association Georg Fahrbach , a prominent representative of nature conservation under National Socialism .

In July 1946 he received an extraordinary professorship for general and applied geology at the University of Tübingen, which he held until his retirement in 1953. He published his research results in over 300 publications and books. During his time in Tübingen, Georg Wagner was considered the most important geologist in southwest Germany.

The photographic legacy of Wagner's research work is archived in the paleontological collection of the University of Tübingen and is managed by the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT .

Honors

The Georg-Wagner-Linde on the Comburg

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, 1953
• Large Federal Cross of Merit
• Schiller Prize of the city of Marbach am Neckar , 1965
• Honorary citizen of the city of Künzelsau
• City of Vienna Prize for Natural Sciences , 1949
• In 1958 he became an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg
• The Georg Wagner Realschule in Künzelsau was named after him.

Fonts

• Contributions to the stratigraphy and educational history of the upper main mussel limestone and the lower Lettenkohle in Franconia (= Geological and Paleontological Treatises . Volume 16, NF Volume 12, Issue 3), G. Fischer Jena 1913 DNB 571358810 (Natural Science Dissertation University of Tübingen 1914, 180 pages).
• Stylolites and printed sutures. Geological and palaeontological treatises, NF 11, Heft 2, 29 p. 3 Taf, Jena 1913 DNB 365627011
• Contributions to the knowledge of the upper main mussel limestone of central and northern Germany. In: Journal of the German Geological Society f. 1919, Volume 71, Berlin 1920, pp. 80-103

literature

• W. Carlé: The scientific work of Georg Wagner. In: Jh. Ges. Naturkde. Württemberg. 128th year. Stuttgart, 1973, pp. 37-67.
• Biography in: Stefan Kraut: Lively rooms. A documentation about the Anne-Sophie-Haus and the Würzburg building in Künzelsau. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2006, pp. 143–152.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Georg Wagner  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf.: Georg Wagner (ed.) / Georg Fahrbach (preface "from the field"): Wandered home , Verlag Schwäbischer Albverein, Stuttgart 1942.
2. ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg