Klaus Dieter Meischner

Dieter Meischner , also Klaus-Dieter Meischner, (born November 21, 1934 in Braunschweig ; † May 24, 2012 in Göttingen ) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

Meischner attended grammar school in Braunschweig (Abitur 1955) and studied geology, palaeontology and zoology at the University of Göttingen from 1955 , where he graduated as a geologist in 1960 and received his doctorate in 1961 ( Rhenaer Kalk and Posidoniakalk in the Kulm of the northeastern Rhenish Slate Mountains and the Coal lime from Schreufa (Eder) ). He then worked as an assistant in Göttingen and completed his habilitation there in 1966. Since 1970, he has been Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University of Göttingen, Head of the Sediment Geology Department. In 1974/75 he stayed at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research with an academy grant from the Volkswagen Foundation. In 2000 he retired. Meischner ran his own geological consulting office (HydroMare).

Dieter Meischner mapped in particular in the Kellerwald and dealt with its tectonics. One focus of his research is sedimentary marine geology, where he conducted current geological research on Bermuda, the Adriatic Sea, the Red Sea and the Great Barrier Reef. He also deals with the construction of devices for marine geology, sea level fluctuations and climatic fluctuations in the marine sediment records (e.g. Red Sea in the last 130,000 years), conservation conditions of fossil deposits ( taphonomy ), stratigraphy of Devonian and Carboniferous in the Rhenish Slate Mountains and Harz , Lower Carboniferous in Ireland and Wales, hydrogeology and participated in various Meteor and Pole Star (Antarctica) expeditions.

In the 1950s he researched and dug in the unicorn cave in the Harz Mountains and in the Willershausen clay pit in the Pliocene.

In 1996 he received the Gustav Steinmann Medal for innovative and interdisciplinary work on the geology of fossil and recent sediments (laudation). In 1969 he received the Ludwig Credner Prize of the German Geological Society and in 1975 the Boris Kidric Prize of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences.

He had been married since 1961 and had three children.

Fonts

Small geology of the basement forest, annual reports and communications of the Upper Rhine Geological Association, New Series, Volume 73, 1991, pp. 115-142
Rhena limestone and posidonia limestone in the Kulm of the northeastern Rhenish Slate Mountains and the coal limestone from Schreufa (Eder), dep. Of the Hessian State Office for Soil Research, No. 39, 1962 (= dissertation)
with J. Schneider Type and age of deck diabase volcanism in the Kellerwald , Geologie, Volume 16, 1967, pp. 5–28
as editor: European Fossil Deposits , Springer 2000

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SURNAME	Meischner, Klaus Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meischner, Klaus-Dieter; Meischner, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 2012
Place of death	Goettingen