Herbert Karrenberg (geologist)

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Herbert Karrenberg (born March 24, 1909 in Velbert ; † September 15, 1983 ) was a German geologist. He was director of the Geological State Office of North Rhine-Westphalia in Krefeld.

Karrenberg studied from 1928 to 1933 in Frankfurt am Main, Vienna and Göttingen. On February 9, 1934, he received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen under Hans Stille ( The post-variscan development of the Cantabro-Asturian Mountains ). From 1936 to 1939 he was at the Prussian State Geological Institute.

Since 1956 he had a teaching position at the University of Bonn , where he completed his habilitation on May 3, 1961 and from 1966 onwards he was appointed to an extraordinary professorship.

Karrenberg dealt in particular with hydrogeology and engineering geology.

In 1972 he received the Hans Stille Medal .

Fonts

  • Hydrogeology of solid rock that cannot be karstified , Springer Verlag 1981
  • Geological and soil mechanical causes of landslides, sliding and soil flow , research reports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia No. 1138, Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag 1963
  • with Hermann Vogler The roughness and grip of natural stone roads, Cologne, Research Society for Roads 1959
  • with Markus Bachmann, Egon Wiegel (editor) The carbon deposits in the Federal Republic of Germany: an overview , advances in the geology of Rhineland and Westphalia, Volume 19, 1971, Geological State Office of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Editor with B. Dolezalek contributions to engineering geology. A symposium , Advances in the Geology of Rhineland and Westphalia, Volume 15, 1968, Geological State Office of North Rhine-Westphalia

For further work see also Hans-Wilhelm Quitzow .

literature

  • Egon Wiegel, obituary in news of the German Geological Society, 1984, issue 30, p. 1 and Geologisches Jahrbuch, Mitteilungen 2, 1984, pp. 17-27
  • Progress in the geology of Rhineland and Westphalia (commemorative publication for the 60th birthday), Geological State Office North Rhine-Westphalia 1970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences Göttingen, Math.-Naturwiss. Class, Volume 3, Issue 11, 1934 (Contributions to the geology of the western Mediterranean areas No. 12)
  2. ↑ Geologist lists PGLA, with photo
personal data
SURNAME Karrenberg, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Velbert
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1983