Gerhard Solle

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Gerhard Solle (born April 3, 1911 in Koblenz ; † October 1, 1981 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Solle studied geology and palaeontology in Frankfurt am Main from 1931, interrupted by a semester in Graz with Franz Heritsch . In 1937 he received his doctorate from Rudolf Richter in Frankfurt . He headed the profile recording of the Wetteldorfer Richtschnitts , the official dividing line between the Emsium and the Eifelium and the only GSSP in Germany since 1981 . He dealt with the topic in his dissertation Geology of the Middle Olkenbacher Mulde , where he dealt with stratigraphic problems of delimiting the Lower and Middle Devonian. He completed his habilitation at the Senckenberg Museum on the biostratigraphy of the Devonian Kondel group in the Rhenish Slate Mountains and was a military geologist during World War II. His collection in the Senckenberg Museum was destroyed by bombing. After the war he was a hydrogeologist and engineering geologist, before becoming an adjunct professor in Frankfurt in 1948 and a diet lecturer in 1949. He helped rebuild the Geological-Paleontological Institute and also rebuilt his own Devonian collection. In 1954 he became a professor at the TU Darmstadt , where he completed the new building for the Geological-Paleontological Institute in the 1960s. He died in a car accident on the way to Ottobeuren Abbey .

He dealt with the Devonian stratigraphy and was on the relevant national and international commissions. He published about Devonian brachiopods , about bryozoa , the paleogeography of the Rhenish Devonian ( Hunsrück Island , identification of the Klerfer strata of the Eifel as Watt fauna). In the 1960s he visited East Asia (Thailand, India, Nepal, Ceylon) and also Egypt, Sudan and Greece.

From 1965 to 1966 he was President of the Paleontological Society .

He was interested in archeology and collected ancient Greek vases.

literature

  • D. Schumann, Obituary in Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 56, 1982, pp. 147-149

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Rath (2003) The history of exploration of the Eifel geology - 200 years a classic area of ​​geological research ; Approved dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences at the Faculty for Georesources and Material Technology of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen.
personal data
SURNAME Should, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1981