Karl Hinz

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Karl F. Hinz (born April 12, 1934 in Klebow , Greifenhagen district ; † August 8, 2016 in Hanover ) was a German geophysicist , marine researcher and geologist.

Hinz studied geology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1953 to 1958 and then geophysics at the Bergakademie Clausthal , where he received his doctorate in 1964 ( on the geology of the southern North Sea after seismic reflection studies ). He was at VEB Erdöl und Erdgas and later at the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research and at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials in Hanover, where he became director and professor in 1985. From 1975 to 1985 he headed the exploration geophysics sub-department at the BGR and from 1985 to 1993 the marine geophysics and polar research department. In 1999 he retired. He was the only and so far last German representative from 1997 to 2002 in the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) of the UN, which is responsible in particular for the rights of the neighboring countries to the submarine natural resources of the Arctic. As a member of this commission, he was also involved in the preliminary rejection of extensive Russian claims to the Arctic in 2001. In 2010 he still had his own office in Hanover and advised the government of Surinam , for example .

He has participated in numerous marine research expeditions to study aspects of plate tectonics and to explore raw materials. Among other things, he did research in the Scotia Sea between Argentina and Antarctica. From 1968 he was in several commissions and working groups of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). From 1987 to 1990 he was on the scientific committee of the International Geoscience Program (IGCP) of UNESCO.

He published around 140 scientific papers. He was Associate Editor of Marine and Petroleum Geology . Hinz was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

In addition, he was on the Polarstern user advisory board at the Alfred Wegener Institute .

Honors

Individual evidence

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  2. Biography in application for naming Hinz Seamount, pdf
  3. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on August 13, 2016
  4. Hans-Jürgen Dürbaum, Karl Hinz Geophysics in the Federal Institute in Hanover , pdf ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgg-online.de
  5. Christoph Seidler Arctic Monopoly , Spiegel Online, May 4, 2009
  6. ^ Maria Gerber The Run on the Arctic , Welt online, August 9, 2010
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