Otto Maria Reis

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Otto Maria Reis (born March 30, 1862 in Worms , † April 17, 1934 in Munich ) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was Senior Mining Director at the Bavarian Mining Authority in Munich.

Life

In 1894 he was assistant at the Oberbergamt in Munich, from 1902 state geologist and from 1913 Oberbergrat and board member and in 1921 he became Oberbergdirektor. There he was in charge of the geognostic department (geological survey).

With August Leppla and Carl Wilhelm Gümbel , he is one of the pioneers in researching the geology of the Palatinate. For example, he researched and named the Remigiusberg Formation , the Altenglan Formation and the Wahnwege Formation (with Ludwig von Ammon 1910).

In 1920 he became a member of the German Geological Society . In 1932 he became an honorary member of the Upper Rhine Geological Association .

Fonts

  • On the osteology and systematics of the Belonorhynchiden and Tetragonolepiden. Geognostische Jahreshefte, 4, 1891, pp. 143–171
  • Coelacanthus Lunzensis Teller, Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute Vienna, Volume L, 1900, Issue 2, pp. 187–192
  • A fauna of the Wetterstein limestone. Part II: Addendum to the cephalopods, Geognostische Jahreshefte, 18th year for 1905, 1907, pp. 113–152
  • Handlirschia gelasii nov. gen. et spec. from the foamy lime Franconia. Treatises of the mathematical-physical class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences 23, 1909, pp. 661–694
  • About drilling tubes in fossil shells and about Spongeliomorpha, Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 73, 1921, pp. 224-237
  • with Heinrich Arndt, Adolf Schwager: Overview of the minerals and rocks of the Rheinpfalz, Geognostische Jahreshefte 1920

literature

  • Viktor Carl, Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities, Hennig, Arwid, 2nd edition, 1998, p. 560
  • Matthäus Schuster : Dr. phil. Otto Maria Reis [died], retired senior mountain director. D., Abhandl. d. Geological state survey at Bayer. Oberbergamt, Volume 16, 1935

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The face of the Palatinate. Exhibition on 250 years of geological research in the Palatinate, Kaiserslautern Palatinate Library, District Association Palatinate, March 19, 2014 ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bv-pfalz.de
  2. ↑ Ludwig von Ammon and Otto M. Reis: Explanations on the sheet Kusel of the geognostic map of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1: 100,000. 186 pp., Munich 1910.
  3. ^ Membership directory of the German Geological Society March 1921
personal data
SURNAME Reis, Otto Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1934
Place of death Munich