Heinrich Soffel

Heinrich Soffel (born October 30, 1936 in Pirmasens ) is a German geophysicist .

Life

From 1942 Soffel attended elementary school and secondary school in Hechingen and from 1952 the grammar school in Tuttlingen . There he passed the Abitur examination in March 1955. He studied natural sciences with a focus on physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He became active in the Corps Vitruvia ( WSC ). In June 1964 Dr. rer. nat. after receiving his doctorate, he was a scientific assistant at the Geophysical Institute of the LMU for six years . In 1965/66 he was on leave from the Department of Earth Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis . In 1968 he qualified as a professor for geophysics in Munich. He was appointed university lecturer in 1970 .

Soffel became an associate professor in 1973 and a full professor for geophysics in 1978 at LMU. After two years as a commissioner , he was appointed to the Chair of Applied Geophysics in 1985 . Linked to this was the management of the geophysical observatory in Fürstenfeldbruck . He received teaching positions at the University of Erlangen (1967–1971 and from 1997), the Technical University of Berlin (1971/72), the ETH Zurich (1973/74) and the Technical University of Munich (1974–1994). In 1991 he was appointed to the Bavarian Commission for Earth Surveying of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He was involved in the German Research Foundation and in academic self-administration. He was vice dean 1973/74, 1977–1979 and 1992–1994 and dean 1974–1977 . From October 1994 to March 1999 he was Vice Rector of the LMU. On April 1, 2002, he retired.

Associate Member of the Royal Astronomical Society (1989)

Advisory Board of the Bavarian Geo-Institute Bayreuth of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1998)

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2001)

Honorary member of the German Geophysical Society (2005)

personal data
SURNAME	Soffel, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Soffel, Heinrich Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pirmasens