Gerhard Einsele

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Gerhard Einsele (born March 17, 1925 in Kirchheim unter Teck ; † November 19, 2010 ) was a German geologist who dealt in particular with hydrogeology , sedimentology and engineering geology.

Einsele was the son of a savings bank employee, went to school in Kirchheim and Stuttgart, graduated from high school in 1943 and then was a soldier in North Africa, where he was taken prisoner by the British and interned in Egypt for several years. From 1948 he studied geology in Stuttgart and then at the University of Tübingen , where he joined the Tübingen royal society Roigel in 1951 and received his doctorate in 1954 ( on rock formation and fossil conservation in the Posidonia slate of the Swabian Jura ). He then worked as an assistant in Tübingen and from 1955 to 1958 as an applied geologist at the Bodensee water supply association. Then he was again an assistant in Tübingen and in 1960/61 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla . In 1962 he completed his habilitation with the investigations carried out in California on marine geology in Tübingen ( the recent sedimentation in the San Diego trough off the southern California coast ). In 1964/65 he took part in the first oceanographic expedition of the recently completed Meteor to the Red Sea. In 1968 he became professor for applied geology at the University of Kiel , where he set up a laboratory for experimental sedimentology and dealt with the hydrogeology of the area around Kiel. From 1972 he was professor for exogenous dynamics at the University of Tübingen, where he retired in 1993.

He was best known as a hydrogeologist, but his scientific preference was sedimentology. He dealt in particular with the hydrogeology of solid rock, mass transport of organic pollutants, water and material balance in groundwater catchment areas. With his colleagues in Tübingen, he was involved as a hydrogeologist in several large interdisciplinary projects (Main project, Wutach project, landscape-ecological research project Schönbuch). He conducted field research around the world and was involved in the Deep Sea Drilling Project as a sedimentologist in Tübingen .

He had 69 doctoral students and 6 post-doctoral students. Some of his students are professors themselves, including Martin Sauter (Göttingen), Peter Grathwohl (Tübingen), Matthias Hinderer (TU Darmstadt), Christoph Schüth (TU Darmstadt), Randolf Rausch (TU Darmstadt), Georg Teutsch (Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research Leipzig ), Andreas Wetzel (Basel).

In 1991 he received the Hans Stille Medal . He was an honorary member of the Geological Society of America .

He had been married since 1958 and had three children, including Hermann Einsele , professor at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg .

Fonts

  • Sedimentary basins , Springer Verlag 1992, 2nd edition 2000
  • with Adolf Seilacher (editor) Cyclic and event stratification , Springer Verlag 1982
    • 2nd edition (with Seilacher and W. Ricken as editors): Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy , Springer Verlag 1991
  • About the type and direction of sedimentation in the clastic Rhenish Upper Devonian (Famenne) , treatises of the Hessian State Office for Soil Research, volume 43, 1963

literature

  • Gerhard Einsele 1925-2010 . (PDF; 3.3 MB) Obituary by Andreas Wetzel, Matthias Hinderer, Geoscientific Communications, No. 43, March 2011
  • Groundwater, Volume 10, March 2005, for the 80th birthday
  • Groundwater, Volume 11, 2006, No. 3 (special articles on the 80th birthday of Einsele)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wetzel, Hinderer: Obituary in Geowiss. Announcements 2011, s. literature
personal data
SURNAME Einsele, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim unter Teck
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2010