Hans Gallwitz

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Hans Gallwitz , Erich Walter Hans-Friedrich Gallwitz, (born November 24, 1896 in Sigmaringen ; † October 9, 1958 in Leipzig ) was a German geologist and paleontologist and professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Gallwitz answered on the Notabitur 1914 in Halberstadt as a volunteer in the First World War , served until 1919 as a soldier and was wounded four times. After the war, he first studied theology in Tübingen and from 1922 natural sciences and especially geology in Göttingen with Hans Stille .

In 1926 he was graduated and became assistant to the Geological Mineralogical Institute of the TH Dresden , where he joined in 1929 in geology and paleontology habilitation and 1935 non-civil servants adjunct professor was. In 1934/35 he was a member of the SA , which he left again, so that a call to the University of Jena was prevented by objection by the Nazi teachers' association . From 1939 to 1945 he was a military geologist (Balkans, Norway, Minsk, Alps) and an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Vienna .

1946 became a professor at the University of Halle and director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute. From 1950 to 1952 he was dean of the university.

In the GDR there were various frictions with the regime and persecution by the regime partly because he was visiting a student lectures, actually because of a trip to West Germany relegated had been. He was also a member of the alcohol group, which was banned in 1958 . He died on the way back from a conference in Vienna .

Among other things, he dealt with fossils and fine stratigraphy of the Eocene lignite deposits in the Geiseltal , where he continued the systematic excavations by Johannes Weigelt and Johannes Walther from the time before the war. In 1952 he succeeded in deriving ground movements from fine stratigraphy.

In 1949 he founded the Hallesche Jahrbuch für Mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte and was co-editor of Geologica .

In 1950 he became a member of the Leopoldina and from 1952 until his death was secretary of its natural science department. In 1955 he became a corresponding member of the Geological Society in Vienna .

He married Else Förster in 1928 and had five children with her, including Klaus Gallwitz .

Fonts

  • Stratigraphic and tectonic investigations on the Devonian carbon border of the Sauerland, Preuss yearbook. Geolog. Landesanstalt, 1927, pp. 487-527 (dissertation)
  • Geology of the Jeschkengebirge in Northern Bohemia, Abh. Saxon. Geolog. State Office 10, 1930
  • with Roland Brinkmann : The betic outer edge in southeast Spain, Abh. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, Math.-Phys. Class, Volume 3, Issue 8, 1933 (Contributions to the geology of the western Mediterranean areas 10)
  • The age sequence of the intrusions in the Elbe valley zone, reports math.-phys. Great, Saxons. Akad. Wiss., Volume 86, 1934, pp. 351-382
  • Ice wedges and glacial sedimentation, Geologica 2, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1949
  • Material on the biostratonomy of the Geiseltal finds in 1949 and 1950, Leipzig: Barth 1953
  • Religion and magic of the people in the Paleolithic, Berlin 1960

literature

  • Margret Dietrich and Othmar Kühn : Obituary Hans Gallwitz. In: Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft in Wien, 51, 1 plate, Vienna 1958, pp. 365–372 ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sybille Gerstengarbe: The member of the Leopoldina Hans Gallwitz and his arguments with the state power 1946-1958. In: Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss. B 19, (1997), 17-36
  2. ^ Sybille Gerstengarbe and Horst Hennig : Opposition, resistance and persecution at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1945-1961. A documentation. Leipzig 2009
  3. ^ Otfried Wagenbreth : History of Geology in Germany . Spectrum 1999, p. 209
personal data
SURNAME Gallwitz, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallwitz, Erich Walter Hans-Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Sigmaringen
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1958
Place of death Leipzig