Joseph H. Ziegler

Joseph Heinrich Ziegler (born July 4, 1928 in Schweinfurt , † September 17, 1988 in Copenhagen ) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was President of the Bavarian Geological State Office and honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Ziegler was drafted at the end of the Second World War and became a prisoner of war. From 1946 he attended the humanistic grammar school in Schweinfurt again with the Abitur in 1949. From 1950 he studied geology and paleontology at the University of Würzburg and from 1951 at the University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in paleontology in 1957 under Richard Dehm . The dissertation dealt with sandshell foraminifera of the Upper Cretaceous from the Bavarian Helvetic Republic . As early as 1953 he was an employee of the Bavarian State Geological Office in micropalaeontology, where he was particularly concerned with the Mesozoic of Northern Bavaria. In 1965 he became deputy head of the geological branch of the Federal Institute for Geosciences in Kabul . In 1985 he became president of the Bavarian State Geological Institute. He died of a heart attack on a business trip in Copenhagen.

He dealt with regional geology in Chiemgau , such as the old iron ore deposits on the Kressenberg near Teisendorf (which were explored by deep drilling in the 1950s) and with Quaternary geology. The geological maps 1: 25,000 of Weiler im Allgäu and Waging am See come from him and he worked on the one in Teisendorf.

In 1985 he became a correspondent for the Federal Geological Institute in Vienna and in 1988 honorary professor in Munich.

Fonts

• Description of a foraminifera fauna from the Rhät vom Großer Haßberg (Northern Bavaria). Comments on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Rhaetian in Franconia. In: Geologica Bavarica, 53, 1964, pp. 36-62

Web links

• Obituary by Herbert Hagn, Dietrich Herm in Mitt. Bayer. Staatssammlungen Paläontologie Historische Geologie, Volume 28, 1988, p.9, Archives