Gerhard Katzung

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Gerhard Katzung (born October 14, 1935 in Schmalkalden ; † February 21, 2008 ) was a German geologist who dealt in particular with regional geology in East Germany and applied geology.

Katzung studied at the University of Jena with Fritz Deubel. He held a leading position at the Central Geological Institute of the GDR in East Berlin, where, among other things, he was involved in an extensive deep drilling program to explore potential oil and natural gas mother rocks (especially the Rotliegend ) in the GDR. The boreholes were sunk to over 8000 m ( Mirow ) and also form the basis for tectonic investigations into East Germany. Later he also dealt with questions of geothermal energy in East Germany.

In 1988 he became full professor for geotectonics and regional geology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . There he dealt, among other things, with the Caledonids in Central Europe and the geotectonic structure of the southwestern edge of the Fennoscandian Shield . With Gerhard Ehmke, he led the creation of the standard Regional Geological Structure of the Territory of the GDR - Pre-Cenozoic Structural Floors (TGL 34331/01), which was also published in Cologne after the fall of the Wall in 1993.

He was co-author of the new editions (since the 4th edition in 1992) of Dierk Henningsen's introduction to the geology of Germany , a standard work.

In 2007 he received the Hans Stille Medal .

Fonts

  • Editor: Geology of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schweizerbart 2004
  • with Dierk Henningsen: Introduction to the Geology of Germany, Spektrum Verlag, 7th edition, 2006
  • with Gerhard Ehmke The pretertiary in East Germany: Structural floors and their regional structure , Cologne, Sven von Loga, 1993
  • Collaboration with Hartmut Haubold , Günther Schaumburg: Die Fossilien des Kupferschiefers , Wittenberg, Ziemsen 1985 (Neue Brehm Bücherei)
  • with others: Geothermal Atlas of the GDR , 1984 (maps 1: 500,000)
  • with H. Kölbel, K. Hotz, D. Franke, D. Lotsch, G. Cepek, P. Bankwitz Grundriß der Geologie der DDR , Volume 1, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overlying Zechstein salts often lead to traps for hydrocarbons
  2. ↑ G. Franke, Regional Geology of East Germany. A dictionary
  3. ↑ Geothermal energy, Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Katzung, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmalkalden
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2008