Gerhard Richter-Bernburg

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Gerhard Richter-Bernburg , also Gerhard Richter, (born February 22, 1907 in Kassel , † March 8, 1990 in Hanover ) was a German geologist.

Life

Richter-Bernburg was a student of Hans Stille and received his doctorate in 1929 at the University of Göttingen ( The Iberian Chains between Jalón and Demanda ). From 1934 to 1939 he worked as a geologist at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA) and then at the newly established Reich Office for Soil Research (RstB), which later became the Reich Office for Soil Research (RAB). In 1941 Richter-Bernburg completed his habilitation in Berlin and acquired the lectureship for general and regional geology in Göttingen. Gerhard Richter-Bernburg was a member of the NSDAP , membership number 5,386,548

In 1947 Richter-Bernburg accepted a lectureship at the Technical University in Hanover and soon afterwards joined the Office for Soil Research (AfB) in Hanover. With the dissolution of the office in 1958, there was a change to the Federal Institute for Soil Research (BfB), which is now the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials (BGR). After Alfred Bentz left the management of the Federal Agency, Hans-Joachim Martini took over his office and Richter-Bernburg moved into the office of Vice President in 1962. In 1968 he received the Hans Stille Medal . On June 18, 1970, he was appointed President of the Federal Institute and the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research, as the direct successor to Martini, who was killed in a traffic accident. Richter-Bernburg remained in this position until his retirement in 1972. Among other things, Richter-Bernburg dealt with the geology of salt deposits (Zechstein) and salt domes. As a pensioner, he warned in 1977 against the storage of radioactive waste in salt domes, although he and his supervisor Martini had spoken out in favor of it in the 1960s.

Fonts

  • Zechstein anhydrite. Facies and Genesis . BGR Geological Yearbook, Series A, Volume 85, 1985
  • as editor: Geology of Saline Deposits , Hanover Symposium 1968, UNESCO, Paris 1972
  • Stratigraphic synopsis of the German Buntsandstein. In: Geologisches Jahrbuch, A, 25, Hannover 1974, pp. 127–132
  • Salt deposits , in A. Bentz, H.-J. Martini, Textbook of Applied Geology, Volume II, 1968

literature

  • Obituary in the BGR Geological Yearbook, 1990, Issue 7, p. 63
  • Obituary in annual reports of the Upper Rhine Geological Association, New Series, Volume 73, 1991, p. 13
  • Obituary by Martin Kürsten in "Kali und Steinsalz", Volume 10, 1991, pp. 314-315

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Bauchmüller: Erdöl für den Führer , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 6, 2016, p. 6
  2. ↑ On the question of his successor, the Minister of Economic Affairs Karl Schiller and his brother-in-law Eberhard Machens, there was then a scandal in the BGR. Kleiner Piesepampel , Der Spiegel, March 6, 1972
  3. ^ Der Spiegel, March 14, 1977
  4. ↑ Printed matter 16/5300 of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, p. 41ff., Online, pdf
personal data
SURNAME Richter-Bernburg, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1990
Place of death Hanover