Kurt Pfaffenberg

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Kurt Pfaffenberg (born February 22, 1888 in Halberstadt , † June 25, 1971 in Sulingen ) was a German teacher and palynologist .

Life

Pfaffenberg was born in Halberstadt in 1888, his father was a customs assistant there. He grew up in Nienburg / Weser , where he attended elementary school and discovered his home region early on in the wider area. After completing his training at the teachers' college in Hanover , in 1909 he started teaching at the one-class school in Vorwohlde - today Sulingen - which he was not to leave for 41 years. He devoted himself to local history, moor geological and pollen analysis investigations, especially the clarification, structure, age and the formation conditions of the humus deposits in northwest Germany.

On behalf of the Prussian State Geological Institute , he clarified the silting processes and the age of the most recent geological deposits in the vicinity of the largest north-west German lakes, the Dümmers and the Steinhuder Meer, in hundreds of boreholes and microscopic examinations in his small laboratory . With pollen analysis studies on small bogs in northwest Germany, he made a contribution to the forest history of the Syker Flottsandgebiet. He was involved in clarifying the subsidence of the coast, which is of crucial importance for the preservation of the ports and the dyke protection of the marshes. For the Reich Office for Soil Research in Berlin he worked in detail on the bog of the Wurzacher Ried in Upper Swabia . His herbarium with 1000 samples from the Weser Uplands is in the Federal Research Institute for Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology in Bad Godesberg . The results of his scientific work are set out in 25 larger publications.

Publications

  • The geology and moor flora of the Holy Mountain near Vilsen (1926), Heimatblatt for the counties of Hoya, Diepholz and Wölpe, no.35
  • The Pastorendiek near Sudwalde (1926)
  • The Geestmoor near Blockwinkel (1930)
  • The interglacial of Tidofeld (Jeverland in Oldenburg) (1934)
  • Stratigraphic and pollen analysis studies in some moors north of the Wiehengebirge (1934)
  • Pollen analysis of the age of some plank paths on the Diepholzer Moor (1936)
  • Development and construction of the Lengen Moor (1938)
  • Over some moors from the latest uplift stage in the area around Wilhelmshaven (1941)
  • The geological storage and pollen analysis of the age of the bog body from Bockhornerfeld (1942)
  • On the alluvial geology of the Steinhuder Meer and its surroundings (preliminary report 1943)
  • Grain and seed finds from the cultural layer of the Stone Age village on the Dümmer (reprint 1947)
  • The Wurzacher Ried (1954)
  • New prehistoric finds from the old district of Sulingen (1955)
  • Geological and botanical investigations on the bog corpse from the Lengener Moor (1958)
  • The Dumber and its Oldest Settlement (1963)
  • Co-author: On the recent geological development of Jade Bay (Walter Häntzschel 1941)
  • Co-author: Das Dümmerbecken - Contributions to geology and botany (Wilhelm Dienemann 1964)

literature

  • Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists
  • Hans Heinrich Seedorf: Kurt Pfaffenberg and the pollen analysis (1988)
  • City of Sulingen: Sulingen. History and People (2012), pp. 206–208
  • Angelika Stiller-Beer, Raymonde Decker, Heinz Riepshoff , Ralf Vogeding : The village school teacher Kurt Pfaffenberg. Botanist - archaeologist - local historian - folklorist. Syke 2019, ISBN 978-3-9808212-9-2 .

Honors

  • 1943: Ernst Rudorff plaque of honor for services to the Lower Saxony landscape and local culture
  • 1947: Honorary member of the Natural History Society in Hanover
  • 1950: Hermann Guthe Medal of the Geographical Society of Hanover
  • 1958: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • 1960: Gauß-Weber Medal from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Göttingen
  • 1964: Lower Saxony Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • 1981: City of Sulingen names a street after him
  • 2019: Under the title The local researcher Kurt Pfaffenberg from Sulingen , an exhibition about the botanist, archaeologist, local researcher and folklorist Kurt Pfaffenberg will be shown in the Syke district museum from March 3 to April 22, 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ District museum Syke pays tribute to village teacher Kurt Pfaffenberg in a special exhibition. Respectable person with a penchant for science on March 4, 2019 on Kreiszeitung.de
personal data
SURNAME Pfaffenberg, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and palynologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1971
Place of death Sulingen