Gerd Lüttig

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Gerd Lüttig (2010)

Gerd Walter Lüttig (born September 21, 1926 in Lindenthal near Leipzig , † July 16, 2010 in Celle ) was a German geologist .

Career

Gerd Lüttig was born on September 21, 1926 in Lindenthal (Saxony). A well-known and proven relative is the German " Sturm und Drang " poet Gottfried August Bürger . After military service and alternating stays in British and French captivity, Gerd Lüttig studied from 1946 in Freiberg / Saxony , Freiburg i. Br. And Göttingen Geology and Paleontology.

In 1952, he put the exam to graduate geologist and was at the University of Goettingen to the Dr. rer. nat. is doing his doctorate on the topic of the Old and Middle Pleistocene Ice Edge Layers between Harz and Weser . In 1953 he joined the “Office for Soil Research” in Hanover, passed the second state examination with distinction in 1956 and was initially accepted into the state service as an extraordinary geologist in 1958 and then as a planned state geologist. In 1962 he became head of the mapping department, in 1967 head director of the “State Tasks Department” and, from 1970, vice-president of the “ Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research ” and the “ Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ” (BGR). After accepting a teaching position at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1963 , he completed his habilitation there in 1969 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1973. From 1967 he worked in teaching at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Göttingen, from which he was appointed honorary professor in 1974. On October 1, 1980, he switched to the chair for applied geology at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 1988 to 1994 he was visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels . He retired on October 31, 1992.

The founding of the " German Society for Moor and Peat Studies " (DGMT) and the "International Peat Society", of which he is both honorary members, go back to Lüttig . In addition, Gerd Lüttig worked as an advisor to various federal and foreign governments as well as to commissions of the UN, UNESCO and the EU.

Gerhard Lüttig is best known as a bed load researcher. Compared to Julius Hesemann's method, he introduced a more refined identification method for the origin of guide attachments, the Theoretical Attachment Center (TGZ). To this end, he recorded around 400 guide attachments with geographical coordinates of their origin in 1958.

Lüttig was Vice President of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials and, on behalf of the nuclear fuel reprocessing company, examined 250 different salt domes nationwide for the storage of nuclear residues between 1972 and 1975 and categorized them into classes of different suitability. The Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility was not included.

In 1998 he received the Albrecht Penck Medal .

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Meyer : Gerd Lüttig in memoriam. In: Geschiebekunde aktuell. Announcements from the Gesellschaft für Geschiebekunde. Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2010, pp. 101-103.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kosinowski: Obituary - Gerd Lüttig (1926-2010) (PDF; 51 kB) on schweizerbart.de
  2. ↑ Gerfried Caspers, Michael Kosinowski and Ulrike Mattig: Gerd Lüttig 1926-2010 . In: Geoscientific Communications , Issue No. 42, December 2010, pp. 116–118.
  3. ↑ Per Smed, Jürgen Ehlers: Stones from the North. Boulders as witnesses to the Ice Age in Northern Germany. Borntraeger 1994, p. 10. Described there as the best-known contemporary bed load researcher in Northern Germany.
  4. ^ Lüttig: Methodical questions of bed load research. In: Geologisches Jahrbuch , Volume 75, 1958, pp. 361-418.
personal data
SURNAME Lüttig, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüttig, Gerd Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenthal near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2010
Place of death Celle