Otto von Linstow (geologist)

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Otto August Hartwig von Linstow (born April 23, 1872 in Ratzeburg , † October 15, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German geologist .

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After attending grammar schools in Hameln and Göttingen (Abitur 1892), he studied at the Universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg as well as at the mining academies in Clausthal and Berlin. In 1896 he obtained his doctorate in Göttingen. phil. He then started as a mountain referendar and Steiger am Deister , but in the same year he switched to the Mineralogical Institute of the Royal Prussian Geological State Institute as an assistant .

In 1904 he became a district geologist and in 1911 a state geologist. In 1916 he received the title of professor after giving lectures at the Polytechnic in Köthen in 1907/08 . During the First World War he was employed as a war geologist in a surveying department on the Eastern Front in 1917/18. In 1928 he was appointed department head for the water supply of the Central German lignite mining area . In 1920 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

He died of a gunshot wound after an attack in Berlin's Grunewald .

He mainly dealt with the geological mapping of the north German lowlands. Furthermore, he operated paleogeographical, botanical, zoological and ecological studies. He dealt with Quaternary geology (Ice Age) and the Triassic in Solling and Reinhardswald . He prepared various reports on hydrogeology, water supply and groundwater quality and wrote numerous specialist publications.

He was a member of the German Geological Society and the Paleontological Society .

He was the son of the military doctor and zoologist Otto von Linstow (1842-1916). His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf . Von Linstow had been married since 1912. His son Wolfgang von Linstow (1913–1979) built a historical vehicle collection in the Britz depot at the Berlin transport company . After the collection was dissolved in 1993, most of the vehicles came to the German Museum of Technology in Berlin or have since been looked after by the Berlin Heritage Association .

Fonts

  • The tertiary erosion in Reinhardswalde near Cassel, Berlin 1899. (Diss.)
  • The organic remains of the Triassic of Lüneburg. Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Geological State Institute and Mining Academy in Berlin for 1903, 129 - 164, plate 12, Berlin 1904
  • The geological literature of the Duchy of Anhalt , Berlin 1909.
  • The age of the lump stones from Finkenwalde near Stettin and the spread of these formations in northern and eastern Germany , Berlin 1912.
  • The spread of the tertiary and diluvial seas in Germany , Berlin 1922.
  • The natural accumulation of metal salts and other inorganic compounds in plants , Dahlem 1924.
  • The mineral springs occurring in the central Devon on the western edge of the Russian-Galician table , Berlin 1929.
  • Plants indicating soil , Berlin 1929.

literature

  • Otto Schneider: Obituary. In: Prussian Geological State Institute 50 (1930), T.II, S. LXXXV-CII.
  • H. Scharp: A century official geological map. Reports on German regional studies. Special issue 4, Bad Godesberg 1961.
  • Konrad Schubert: 80 years ago: Berlin police capitulated. The mysterious death of the Prussian geologist Otto von Linstow (1872-1929) in Berlin's Grunewald. In: Geohistorische Blätter 20 (2010), pp. 5–21.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Otto von Linstow at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Linstow, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linstow, Otto August Hartwig von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1929
Place of death Berlin