Konrad Görler

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Konrad Görler (born May 24, 1936 in Berlin ; † April 25, 2012 there ) was a German geologist .

Konrad Görler grew up as the son of the factory owner Ernst Görler and his wife Fanny, a teacher, in Berlin. Even at the end of his geology studies at the Free University of Berlin, he was researching a project between the Alps and the Apennines on his lifelong focus, the mountains of the Mediterranean region. For this project was his dissertation , which he in 1962 doctorate was.

After his habilitation on parts of the southern Apennines, he was Professor of Geology at the Free University from 1970 until he retired in 1998. In addition to his Mediterranean research focus, u. a. in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains , he worked as a visiting professor in California on the geological conditions in the Pacific and in the Collaborative Research Center Deformation Processes in the Andes of the German Research Foundation . From 1993 to 1998 he was in charge of the sub-project pool formation in different crust environments .

Konrad Görler died five weeks after his wife Gerda. Both were buried together in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Publications (selection)

  • Stratigraphy and tectonics of the southern and central section of the Sestri-Voltaggio zone including the adjacent areas (diss.), Berlin 1962
  • An Olisthostrom in the Molise Zone , In: New Yearbook for Geology and Palaeontology , Vol. 129, Stuttgart 1967, pp. 66-83

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Stratigraphy and tectonics of the southern and central sections of the Sestri-Voltaggio zone , p. 147
  2. ↑ Project description of the DFG
  3. ↑ Obituary notice of the family, Tagesspiegel of May 13, 2012, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Görler, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2012
Place of death Berlin