Lothar Krumbeck

Lothar Eduard Nikolaus Krumbeck (born September 11, 1878 on Gut Kowardiaki near Brest-Litowsk , † June 11, 1958 in Erlangen ) was a German paleontologist and geologist.

Krumbeck, son of a landowner, went to school in Hameln (grammar school), Karlsruhe and Hanover (war school). From 1901 he studied geology and paleontology in Munich and received his doctorate in Munich in 1905, and from 1906 he was assistant at the Geological Institute of the University of Erlangen . In 1911, after completing his habilitation, he became a private lecturer, in 1916 a non-civil servant professor and in 1935 a conservator. In 1939 he was made an adjunct professor and in 1945 dismissed by the American military government . In 1948 he retired.

He was considered an expert on the Franconian Jura . He also edited paleontological finds from Johannes Wanner from Indonesia and edited the Erlangen-Nord sheet of the Geological Map of Bavaria (1931).

Fonts

• Upper Triassic of Sumatra : The Pandang layers of West Sumatra and their appendages. In: Georg Böhm : Contributions to the geology of the Dutch East Indies, Stuttgart 1914, online
• The Brachiopods, Lamellibranchiaten and Gastropods of the Triassic of Timor . In: Paläontologie von Timor and smaller contributions to the palaeontology of some other islands of the East Indian archipelago, Delivery 10, 17, Schweitzerbart 1921
• For knowledge of the Jura of the island of Timor, as well as the Aucellen horizon of Seran and Buru. In: Paläontologie von Timor and smaller contributions to the palaeontology of some other islands of the East Indian archipelago, delivery 12, 20, Schweitzerbart 1923
• Comments about the Pautzfeld flexure in the Regnitz basin north of Forchheim. In: Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1927, B, 1928, pp. 433–437
• Explanations for the geological map of Bavaria 1: 25000. Sheet Erlangen Nord No. 161, 1931, 86 pp.
• Contributions to the geology of Northern Bavaria. X. On the Rhätolias stratigraphy and geology of the Forchheim forest Regnitz basin, as well as adjacent areas. In: Session reports of the physico-medical law firm Erlangen, 63/64, 1933, pp. 285–356
• Observations in the Upper Franconian Rhätolias. In: Reports of the natural research society in Bamberg, 27, 1934, pp. 119–126
• Contributions to the geology of Northern Bavaria. XII. The Rathsberg layers, the youngest member of the Keuper in Franconia. In: Meeting reports of the physico-medical law firm Erlangen, 67, 1936, pp. 15–62
• Contributions to the geology of Northern Bavaria. XIII. The Rhät in north-west Franconia. In: Meeting reports of the physical-medical law firm Erlangen, 71, 1939, pp. 1–130

literature

• Anonymous, Prof Dr Lothar Krumbeck. Geological sheets for northeast Bavaria and neighboring areas 8 (3), 1958, pp. 141–142
• The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960, part 3, edited by Clemens Wachter with the participation of Astrid Ley and Josef Mayr, Erlanger Research, special series Volume 13, Erlangen 2009