Martin Kürsten
Martin Kürsten (born October 12, 1931 in Suhl ; † April 15, 2019 ) was a German geologist who served as President of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) and the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research (NLfB) from 1986 until his retirement in 1996. officiated.
Life
Kürsten studied geology at the University of Bonn and the University of Edinburgh from 1951 to 1956 . He received his doctorate in Bonn in 1956 and was an assistant at the Geological Institute there until 1957. He then went to the Office for Soil Research, where he was appointed assessor in the geological service in 1966, scientific director in 1971 and head of the geochemistry and mineralogy department in 1972 . In 1973 he was promoted to director and received the title of professor. In 1979 he became head of the economic geology department . In 1986 he became president of the BGR and the NLfB. During his term of office, the reunification fell in 1990 and he campaigned for the establishment of a BGR branch in Berlin.
Among other things, he dealt with the regional geology of Iran and economic geology.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (June 28, 1990)
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (July 18, 1996)
Fonts
- with Reinhold Huckriede, Helmut Venzlaff On the geology of the area between Kerman and Sagand (Iran) , supplements to the Geological Yearbook, Volume 51, 1962
- with Henner Barth The mineral raw materials of Africa - opportunities for the German economy , Geological Yearbook, Series H, 1, 1996
literature
- Fritz Barthels (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Martin Kürsten . Geological Yearbook, Series A, Volume 127 (1991)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung / Neue Presse from May 18, 2019.
- ↑ a b Federal President's Office
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kürsten, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suhl |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 2019 |