Paul Assmann

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Paul Gustav Bernhard Assmann (born January 3, 1881 in Dresden , † April 10, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German geologist and paleontologist . His research focus was on the processing of stratigraphy and the fauna of the Triassic of Upper Silesia .

Life

Paul Assmann was the son of the engineer Gustav Assmann and his wife Sophie , b. Pechstein .

After attending primary school in Dresden from 1887 to 1891, he then went to the Realgymnasium in Dresden, which he left at Easter 1900 with the school-leaving certificate. After 5 semesters, he gave up the civil engineering course, which he then started at the Royal Technical University of Dresden , despite having previously passed the "State preliminary examination for civil engineering" with grade 2a, in order to devote himself to his favorite subject, geology . He was a member of the Corps Altsachsen Dresden . He studied from September 1902 at the University of Berlin where, after having passed his doctoral examination on February 22, 1906, he received his doctorate on July 28, 1906 (speakers: Prof. Dr. Branco , Prof. Dr. Klein) in paleontology ( About Aspidorhynchus ). During this period he interrupted his studies from Easter 1903 to Easter 1904 to do his military duty in Dresden with the Royal Saxon 1st Leib-Grenadier-Regiment No. 100. He then took up an assistant position at the Bergakademie Berlin . From 1908 he worked as a geologist at the Prussian Geological State Institute , where, only interrupted from military service from 1914 to 1918 during World War I , he also remained active at their later successor institutions until the end of his career. In 1919 he became a district geologist and from 1945 to 1950 he was department head at the German State Geological Institute in the Soviet occupation zone in East Berlin .

Basically based on the previous work of Johannes Ahlburg , Wilhelm Dunker , Heinrich Adolf von Eck and Carl Ferdinand von Roemer , he worked on the triad of Upper Silesia and devoted himself intensively to its regional stratigraphy as well as the entire spectrum of fauna ( fossils ) of the Buntsandstein , Muschelkalks , and Keupers , which means that his collections now make up around 40% of the BGR collection in Berlin. In his works he described a large number of new genera and species and thus enabled a more differentiated stratigraphic structure. 252 of the paleontological originals described by Paul Assmann are still kept today in Berlin-Spandau at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials (Berlin service area) and are available to palaeontologists at home and abroad for scientific processing.

He retired in 1950, but still worked on a fee basis on behalf of the Senate of West Berlin to create the geological map and building site map of Berlin (West) on a scale of 1: 10,000, with Paul Assmann viewing 36,000 layer lists of boreholes.

He had had his first marriage since 1911 (second marriage from 1933) and had three daughters ( Ilse , Matthilde and Charlotte ) born between 1912 and 1921 .

Memberships

  • 1907 German Geological Society
  • 1910–1939 Prussian Geological State Institute

Cartographic publications

Paul Assmann is the author or co-author of 29 geological maps , mostly sheets of the geological-agronomic land survey 1: 25,000, with a focus on Upper and Lower Silesia and the area around Magdeburg .

Fonts

  • About Aspidorhynchus. Inaugural Diss. Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 32 p. Text, printed by JF Starcke, Berlin 1906
  • The Brachiopods and Lamellibranchiats of the Upper Silesian Triassic. Yearbook of the Royal Prussian State Agency for 1915, Volume 36, Part 1, Berlin 1916, pp. 586–638
  • The gastropods of the Upper Silesian Triassic. Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute for 1923, Volume 44, Berlin 1924, pp. 1-50
  • The invertebrate fauna and the diplopores of the Upper Silesian Triassic with the exception of brachiopods, lamellar branchies, gastropods and corals. Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute for 1925, 46, Berlin 1926, pp. 504–527, 1 fig., Plates 8–9
  • The decapod shrimp of the German shell limestone. Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute for 1927, 48, Berlin 1928, pp. 332–356, 1 fig., Plates 8–13
  • Revision of the invertebrate fauna of the Upper Silesian Triassic; with a contribution about the sponges by Hermann Rauff. Treatises of the Prussian Geological State Institute, NF 170: 134 pp., 22 plates; Berlin 1937
  • The stratigraphy of the Upper Silesian Triassic :
    • Part 1 (Buntsandstein), Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute, Volume 53, 1932, pp. 731–757
    • Part 2 (Muschelkalk), treatises by the Reich Office for Soil Research, New Series, Issue 208, 124 pages, Berlin 1944

Open research questions on Paul Assmann's biography

  • 1. Geological description of the Opole district
    • Paul Assmann himself stated this publication in his 1927 personnel file as being "in print". This publication could not yet be determined bibliographically.
  • 2. The stratigraphy of the Upper Silesian Triassic. Part 3: The Keuper
    • This work was supposed to appear in 1951 as issue 222 of the "Abhandlungen der Deutschen Geologische Landesanstalt", but was never published there. The manuscript is lost.
  • 3. Grave site
    • The grave site of the geologist who last lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf has not yet been determined.

literature

  • Paul Assmann: CV . In: About Aspidorhynchus. Inaugural Diss. Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 32 p. Text, printed by JF Starcke, Berlin 1906 - ( note: bibliography and blank reverse side are also marked as p.32 like the last text page, the up to The curriculum vitae of Paul Assmann, formulated for the year 1906, is included as the last sheet in front of the back cover in the viewed copy without page identification )
  • Konrad Schuberth: Paul Assmann (1881-1967). Erforscher der Geologie Oberschlesiens , Geohistorische Blätter, Volume 4, 2001, pp. 35–46
  • W. Lindert: Biography of Assmann, in: Norbert Hauschke, Volker Wilde (editor): Trias. A completely different world. Central Europe in the Early Middle Ages , Munich, Friedrich Pfeil, 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. Darmstadt 1928, p. 133.
  2. ^ Assmann, OF Gandert, G. Siebert, G. Sukopp The geological structure of the Berlin area. At the same time as an explanation of the geological map and building site map of Berlin (West) on a scale of 1: 10,000 , 142 pages, Berlin (Senator for Building and Housing), 1957. Assmann New observations in the ice age deposits of the Berlin area , magazine of the German Geological Society, Volume 109, 1957, pp. 399-410
personal data
SURNAME Assmann, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aßmann, Paul (different spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1967
Place of death Berlin