Julius Boettcher

Julius Böttcher (* 1886 ; † 1970 ) was a German teacher, local researcher , palaeontologist and fossil collector .

Life

Julius Böttcher was a teacher and worked as a teacher in Ohrdruf . He collected fossils in the vicinity of Ohrdruf and over the years put together an extensive collection of fossils from the Thuringian Triassic .

In autumn 1934 he initiated the establishment of the Heimatmuseum Schloss Ehrenstein in Ohrdruf and made a large part of his fossil collection available as the basis for the museum. After the first department of the museum could be opened on this basis on August 1, 1935, Julius Böttcher became head of the municipal museum of local history in Ohrdruf. In 1937 he encouraged the formation of a working group to research the Upper Muschelkalk of Thuringia, where he gave a lecture on the sequence of layers of the Upper Muschelkalk near Ohrdruf and a few rare fossils at a meeting in the Natural History Museum in Erfurt on March 6, 1938 .

With his publication on the Muschelkalkmeer around Ohrdruf in 1938 he made known the fossil record found in the vicinity of Ohrdruf and the knowledge he gained in the process.

As a paleontologist he is the first to describe the Triassic cephalopod Germanonautilus tridorsatus ( Böttcher 1938).

In 1951 he took over the management of the city archives in Ohrdruf as the city archivist. He continued to study the history of Ohrdruf and published an extensive work in four volumes on it from 1955 to 1960.

He was a member of the West Thuringian Homeland Association and since 1925 a member of the Thuringian Geological Association .

The Julius-Böttcher-Strasse in Ohrdruf was named in honor of Julius Böttcher.

Writings and works (selection)

• The Muschelkalkmeer around Ohrdruf. Printed by Hermann Lucas, 115 pp., 15 plates, Ohrdruf 1938
• The sequence of layers of the upper shell limestone near Ohrdruf and a few rare fossils . In: Contributions to the geology of Thuringia, 5, Jena 1938, pp. 54–56
• Fossilizations of the Upper Muschelkalk near Ohrdruf as informative documents for the history of the German Muschelkalkmeer . In: Contributions to the geology of Thuringia, 5, Jena 1938, 2 plates, pp. 99-105
• The story of Ohrdruf ; published by the city council of Ohrdruf:
  • Part 1: The earth, prehistory and early history of our homeland up to the year 1000 ; 1955.
  • Part 2: The development of the Ohra village into a town of arable citizens and craftsmen and into the Gräflich-Gleichen residence 1000–1650 ; 1956.
  • Part 3: Ohrdruf, the capital of the county of Obergleichen freed itself from the Princely Hohenlohe government 1650–1850 ; 1957.
  • Part 4: The district capital of Ohrdruf becomes a factory town 1850–1900 through a railway connection ; 1960.

literature

• Hans Werner Rothe : The meeting of the Ceratitenfreunde on March 6, 1938 in Erfurt. Conference report . In: Contributions to the geology of Thuringia, 5, Jena 1938, pp. 96–98.

Web links

• Böttcher, Julius in the German biography
• Kalliope network : Böttcher, Julius
• Thuringian Geological Association: The TGV from 1925 to 1945/46 (with picture by Julius Böttcher)
• Literature by and about Julius Böttcher in the bibliographic database WorldCat