Hermann Reich (geologist)

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Georg Hermann Reich (born December 19, 1891 in Affalterthal , † May 21, 1976 in Göttingen ) was a German geophysicist and geologist.

From 1910 Reich studied geology at the University of Heidelberg , the University of Erlangen and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1915 under Wilhelm Deecke on the geology of the Urach volcanic area. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students Erlangen . After military service in World War I, he worked as an assistant in Königsberg and at the University of Göttingen with Emil Wiechert , where he began to deal with geophysics. After the state examination for teachers in 1921, he went to the Prussian Geological State Institute .

In 1925 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin , where he was a private lecturer in the mining department and, from 1931, an associate professor. In 1945 he became an associate professor in Göttingen and in 1948 a full professor of applied geophysics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he set up his own geophysical institute with an observatory in Fürstenfeldbruck .

He was a pioneer in the application of refraction seismics, which he propagated among geologists in Germany together with other geophysical methods, and was one of the initiators of the Geophysical Reichsaufnahme from 1934, which was used in particular to search for oil and gas (with seismic, magnetic and gravimetric Investigations). He also conducted extensive magnetometric studies, including of coal, ore and salt deposits, and discovered the Prignitz anomaly in northern Germany. After the war he devoted himself to seismic investigations in the Alpine foothills of Bavaria. He also used the large ammunition explosions in Helgoland by the British for seismic investigations.

In 1948 he received the Hans Stille Medal . He was an honorary member of the German Geological Society and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Applied geophysics for miners and geologists, 2 volumes, Leipzig, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft 1933
  • Co-editor together with Hans Haalck , M. Rössiger and Rudolf von Zwerger of contributions to applied geophysics, Leipzig, 1944, volume 11, and author, z. B. of book reviews under papers in volume 2 of vol. 11
  • Basics of applied geophysics for geologists, Leipzig, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest and Portig 1960
  • with R. von Zwerger: Taschenbuch der Angewandte Geophysik, Leipzig, Becker and Erler, 1943

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 179.
  2. ^ Reich: Significance of the new geophysical investigation methods for geology, Zeitschrift für Geophysik, Volume 1, 1924/25
  3. ^ Reich: State of the geophysical Reichsaufnahme, Zeitschrift für Geophysik, Volume 15, 1939, pp. 73–83
  4. ^ Reich: Regional Magnetic Anomalies of Germany, especially Northern Germany, Zeitschrift für Geophysik, Volume 4, 1928, pp. 84-102.
  5. ^ Reich: Results of the seismic observation of the blast on Helgoland, Geolog. Yearbook, Volume 64, 1950, p. 243.
personal data
SURNAME Reich, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Affalterthal
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1976
Place of death Goettingen