Herbert Hagn

Herbert Hagn (born June 9, 1927 in Munich ; † December 15, 2003 ibid) was a German paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Hagn, the son of a master precision mechanic, studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Munich after military service in World War II from 1944 and English prisoner of war, with a diploma in 1950 and a doctorate summa cum laude in 1952. The habilitation took place in 1955 through the tertiary of Monte Brione on Lake Garda , whereupon he was a private lecturer in Munich and from 1962 professor.

He initially dealt with micropaleontology ( foraminifera ) and regionally with molasses from the Tertiary (where he worked with Otto Hölzl ), flysch , limestone Alps , Helvetica on the northern edge of the Alps and in the Alpine foothills. He wrote a book about thin sections , facies and microfauna of rocks in the Bavarian Alps (1955) and later dealt with the study of ceramics for archeology in Bavaria with numerous publications. He also published on the history of geology.

He was in the German Tertiary Stratigraphy Subcommission (including Eocene - Oligocene Border 1986).

In 1998 he received the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1997 the Bavarian Monument Protection Medal .

Fonts

• On the paleogeography and micropaleontology of the Upper Bavarian Paleocene flysch. In: Journal of the German Geological Society 101, 1950, pp. 164–183.
• About relocation processes in the subalpine molasse of Upper Bavaria and their significance for alpine tectonics. In: Geologica Bavarica 5, 1950, pp. 1-45.
• with Otto Hölzl: Geological-paleontological investigations in the subalpine molasse of eastern Upper Bavaria between Prien and Sur with consideration of the Helveticum in the south. In: Geologica Bavarica 10, 1952, pp. 1-208.
• Ways and possibilities of micropalaeontological investigations in the Upper Bavarian Alpine Foreland. In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift 27, 1953, pp. 16-25.
• Introduction to the Study of Foraminifera, Part 1–3, Mikrokosmos, Vol. 42 and 44, 1954
• Geological-palaeontological investigations in the Helvetic and Flysch in the area of ​​Neubeuert am Inn (Upper Bavaria). In: Geologica Bavarica 22, 1954, pp. 1-136.
• Facies and microfauna of the rocks of the Bavarian Alps. International Sedimentary Petrographical Series, vol. 1; Leiden (EJ Brill), 1955
• Geological and paleontological studies in the Tertiary of Monte Brione and its surroundings (Lake Garda, Upper Italy). In: Palaeontographica A 107, 1956, pp. 67-210.
• The stratigraphic, paleogeographical and tectonic relationships between Molasse and Helvetic in eastern Upper Bavaria. In: Geologica Bavarica 44, 1960, pp. 1-208.
• Classic and new outcrops with fauna and flora of the Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary in the eastern Bavarian Alps and adjacent areas. In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift 35, 1961, pp. 146–170.
• The Old Tertiary of the Bavarian Alps and their foreland. In: Communications from the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Historical Geology 7, 1967, pp. 245-320.
• The development of paleontology and geology from the beginnings to the 19th century. In: Communications from the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Historical Geology 35, 1995, 217–237.
• On the geology of the Lower Inn Valley. The mountain formations between Innsbruck and Rosenheim. In: H. Heyn (Ed.): The Inn. From the Engadine to the Danube Valley. From prehistoric times to today . Förg, Rosenheim 1989, pp. 41-46
• with R. Darga, R. Schmid: Siegsdorf im Chiemgau. Earth history and primeval world . Siegsdorf 1992

literature

• Dietrich Herm: Obituary . In: Zitteliana A 44, 2004, pp. 5-16.

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Hagn in the catalog of the German National Library