Karl Krömelbein

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Karl Krömmelbein (born January 17, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 7, 1979 in Kiel ) was a German geologist and micropalaeontologist.

Krömelbein attended the Helmholtz School in Frankfurt from 1930 and passed his school-leaving examination there in 1938. He received his doctorate in 1951 from the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His dissertation was entitled The Geology of the Salmerwald Mulde . He completed his habilitation in Frankfurt in 1954 on geology and paleontology, was an adjunct professor in Frankfurt in 1961 and, from 1962, full professor of palaeontology at the University of Kiel .

Among other things, he dealt with ostracods , the chalk in Brazil and the Congo . His dissertation and subsequent work dealt with the Devon the Eifel and especially the Kalkmulden .

The Senckenberg Research Institute and the Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt have integrated the post-paleozoic Krömmelbein Collection into their micropalaeontological collections. It contains over 21,000 cataloged items. Krömelbein worked with Wolfgang Struve at the Senckenberg Research Institute .

Karl Krömelbein was married to a sister of the wife of the former Hessian Minister of Economics, Heinz-Herbert Karry . The politician Karry and the physicist and inventor Gustav Heinzmann , as well as the Germanist and philosopher Kurt Weigand, were Krömmelbein's classmates. He was close friends with the latter.

Works

  • with Hans Rudolf von Gaertner: On the geology of the Eifelkalkmulden . In: Supplements to the Geological Yearbook, 17th Office for Soil Research, Hanover 1955
  • with Wolfgang Struve: Geological walks in the Eifelkalkmulden . Excursion guide 009, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main 1956
  • Ostracodes from the non-marine Lower Cretaceous (“West African Wealden”) of the Congo coastal basin, Meyniana Institute for Soil Sciences, 15, Kiel 1965, pp. 59–74
  • with Rolf Weber: Ostracoden des “Nordost-Brasilianischen Wealden” , In: Supplements to the Geological Yearbook, 115th Federal Institute for Soil Research and the Geological State Offices of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hanover 1971.
  • with Roland Brinkmann: Outline of the geology . Volume 2: Historical Geology, Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 978-3432806006
  • Roland Brinkmann: Historical geology, earth and life history . Newly edited by Karl Krömmelbein. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1991
  • from 1975 as publisher: Leitfossilien , founded by Georg Gürich. Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Böger: Obituary for Karl Krömmelbein . In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, Volume 54, June 1980, pp. 1-2
  2. ↑ Short biography of Karl Krömmelbein in volume 4 of the series of publications by the Association of former Helmholtz students. V., Frankfurt am Main 1995, pp. 31-32
  3. ↑ Karl Krömmelbein . In: Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis, professors from 1919 to 1965. From: gelehrtenverzeichnis.de, accessed on March 19, 2017
  4. ↑ Krömmelbein Mesozic ostracod collections . In: Journal of Paleontology by Paleontological Society, Volume 87, Issue 2, March 2013, p. 351
  5. ^ The micropalaeontological collections . From: senckenberg.de, accessed on March 19, 2017
  6. ↑ Brief portrait of a former Helmholtz student. This time: Dr. Kurt Weigand ( 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. . In: VEH-Info, 101, March 2006, p. 7. Association of former Helmholtz students, Frankfurt am Main @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vehev.de
personal data
SURNAME Krommelbein, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1979
Place of death Kiel