Joachim Schröder (paleontologist)

Joachim Schröder as Halle's Teutone

Joachim Schröder (born December 14, 1891 in Naumburg (Saale) , † 1976 ) was a German paleontologist and geologist.

Life

Schröder's father was a doctorate teacher and a recognized expert on molluscs . From 1895 he was director of the secondary school in Groß-Lichterfelde . Joachim Schröder spent his school days there. Joint mountain tours in the vicinity of Kufstein and group excursions in the Munich area aroused his interest in natural sciences and geology . In 1910 he enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich for natural sciences. He became active in the Corps Makaria Munich . In 1911, he went to the Friedrichs University in Halle for two semesters to support his friend Corps Teutonia Halle . He returned to Munich and devoted himself entirely to geology and palaeontology with August Rothpletz . In August 1914, he went to the First World War as a war volunteer . Returning home at the end of 1918, he wrote his doctoral thesis with Ferdinand Broili . On July 23, 1920 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. After five years with Broili, he moved to the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology in January 1925 . On July 1, 1928, he was appointed its curator .

Collective trips

At Broili's suggestion and with the support of Erich Kaiser , Schröder and his wife Paula geb. Pichler 1928/29 South Africa . The Karoo should be examined and a representative collection of its vertebrates should be brought together. Both succeeded. The processing of the finds with broili resulted in 28 publications .

In addition, Schröder had taken up Rothpletz's pre-war idea and made geological recordings of Harburg (Swabia) . He had already reported about it in 1924. The inspections in the Nördlinger Ries were continued. In 1940 sheet Harburg was printed 1: 25,000. The accompanying explanations appeared in 1950.

A research trip with Richard Dehm led to India and Australia in 1939 . In India it was about the Siwaliks and collections of the young tertiary vertebrates, in Australia about Pleistocene cave and lake deposits and their mammal fauna. The outbreak of the Second World War ended the research trip. After internment in Australia and the Dutch East Indies , Schröder and Dehm returned to Munich in July 1940 via Japan, Korea and Siberia.

Munich

Scientific work was impossible in Munich. The priority was the relocation of the materials of the Bavarian State Collection, which had been collected over 150 years and stored in 36 rooms. Schröder, Edgar Dacqué and an assistant were able to retrieve the vast majority of the originals and the most important parts of the special library and bring them to Oettingen Castle . Even before the relocation was finished, the old academy burned down in the RAF bombing in April 1944 . Most of the Indian and Australian materials, the Ries collections and Schröder's entire mollusc collection were lost. After Dacqué's death in autumn 1945, Schröder took over as deputy head of the university institute and the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Historical Geology. He began with the reconstruction in some rooms of the Maximilianeum , then in the north wing of Nymphenburg Palace and in the Botanical Institute in Nymphenburg, then in Arcisstraße 9. He planned to move into the library building of the Deutsches Museum and then into the Richard-Wagner-Straße building 10. He brought the scattered employees back together, brought the outsourced library and collection parts back to Munich and opened the lessons and scientific work. As director, he made important additions to the Bavarian State Collection through new acquisitions and bequeathed private collections.

The Ludwig Maximilians University appointed him honorary professor on July 25, 1947 . In 1949, he turned down the call to the chair of paleontology and historical geology (once occupied by Karl Alfred von Zittel ) . He retired at the age of 67 on July 1, 1958.

literature

• R. Dehm : Joachim Schröder on his 75th birthday . Mitt. Bayer. State Collection Paleont. hist. Geol. 6 (1966), pp. 3-8.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 110 , 505; 57 , 305
2. ↑ Dissertation: The Jurassic spotted marl of the Bavarian Alps .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} R. Dehm, 1966