Hans-Georg Herbig

Hans-Georg Herbig (born March 8, 1955 ) is a German geologist and paleontologist .

After graduating from the Roentgen Gymnasium in Würzburg in 1974, he studied geology in Würzburg with a diploma in 1980, where he mapped for his diploma thesis in the Cantabrian Mountains , and received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1983 (reconstruction of a sedimentation area that no longer exists - the limestone pebbles in the Karbon-Flysch of the Malagids (Betic Cordillera, southern Spain)). In 1990 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin (The Palaeogen on the southern edge of the Central High Atlas and in the Middle Atlas of Morocco. Stratigraphy, facies, paleogeography and palaeotectonics), was a Heisenberg fellow at the University of Marburg and became Professor of Paleontology and Historical Geology in 1995 from the University of Cologne .

He is mainly concerned with facies development, paleontology, paleoecology and the stratigraphy of the Upper Devonian and Carboniferous in Europe and North Africa, especially in carbonates. In addition to Spain, he worked particularly in the Rhenish Slate Mountains and in Morocco. He also deals with Paleozoic echinoderms and the Germanic Triassic.

From 1998 to 2000 he was chairman of the Paleontological Society . Since 2006 he has been chairman of the German stratigraphic commission on carbon. In 1988 he received the Hermann Credner Prize .

Web links

• Homepage in Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roland Röhrich, Winfried Stadtmüller: Annual report 1971/72. Röntgen-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1972, p. 31 ( class 11 c ).