Gerhard Schairer

Gerhard Schairer (born December 18, 1938 in Jena ; † March 22, 2012 ) was a German paleontologist . He was the main curator at the Bavarian State Collection in Munich. He was an expert on ammonites and their use in stratigraphy (especially from the Upper Jurassic ).

Schairer went to school in Freudenstadt and Ulm and studied geology and paleontology in Tübingen and Munich (diploma in Munich 1963, geological-paleontological investigations in the area of ​​the Nördlinger Ries). In 1967 he received his doctorate from Richard Dehm on ammonites of the genus Perisphinctes , for which he collected extensively in the Frankenalb. Then he was in a sedimentological DFG priority program, headed by Werner Barthel , for which he was also in Spain. From 1970 he was assistant at the Geological-Paleontological Institute in Munich and from 1971 curator at the Bavarian State Collection. He retired in 2003 after suffering a stroke in 1997.

He was involved in extensive excavations in the Jura around Eichstätt , in the Jurassic sponge limestone of Biburg and in Sengenthal near Neumarkt. He worked with his friend, a professor in Tehran, Kazem Seyed-Emami , and although he did not dig himself in Iran, he worked on ammonite finds and their stratigraphic use in Iran. He also worked and published with amateur paleontologists .

Fonts

• with Karl Beurlen , Horst Gall : The Alb and its fossils. Geology and paleontology of the Swabian and Franconian Alb. A guide for the lover . 1st edition. Stuttgart, Franckhsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1978

literature

• W. Werner, obituary, Zitteliana A 52, 2012, 141