Paul Schmidt-Thomé

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Paul Schmidt-Thomé (born July 16, 1911 in Cologne , † March 26, 1997 in Munich ) was a German geologist.

Schmidt-Thomé received his doctorate in 1936 at the University of Bonn under Max Richter ( geology of the Alpine fringe zone between the Wertach and Pfronten in the Allgäu ). He then worked as an assistant in Hamburg until 1938 and as a deposit geologist in Spain until 1941. From 1941 to 1943 he did military service. He was an assistant and from 1943 private lecturer in Berlin. From 1946 to 1953 he was at the Bavarian Geological Office in Munich (where he was a member of the government from 1948) and then professor at the TH Munich (from 1954 as a full professor).

In addition to the geology of the Alps and Bavaria, he also dealt with that of Heligoland and Spain.

In 1979 he received the Hans Stille Medal .

Fonts

  • Helgoland: its dune island, the surrounding cliffs and sea bed , Gebrüder Borntraeger, Geological Guide Collection, 1987
  • Geological map of Heligoland, with explanations , Geological Yearbook A, Volume 62, 1982
  • The Hölloch near Riezlern in the Kleiner Walsertal (Allgäu-Vorarlberg): A karsten monograph , Scientific Alpine Association, Volume 18, 1961
  • Tectonics , Volume 2 by Roland Brinkmann (editor) Textbook of General Geology , Enke Verlag 1972
  • Editor with Reinhard Schönenberg, Max Richter: Festschrift Max Richter for his 65th birthday , Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Pieper 1965
  • with Franz Lotze , Walter Carlé On the geology of the Iberian meseta , part 1, in Hans Stille , Franz Lotze (editor): Geotectonic research, volume 6, Gebrüder Borntraeger 1945

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Freyberg: The geological literature on Northeast Bavaria (1476-1965) Part II: Biographical Author Register, Geologica Bavarica 71, Bavarian Geological State Office 1974
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Thomé, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1997
Place of death Munich