Peter Bankwitz

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Peter Bankwitz (born June 15, 1931 in Hohenleipisch , Liebenwerda district , Province of Saxony , † June 23, 2013 in Potsdam ) was a German geologist and university professor .

Life

After studying geology at the Humboldt University of Berlin Bankwitz was with his work "On the Geology of contact at the Thuringian main granite" 1957 PhD . 1959 became a scientific employee of the Geotectonic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . After the academy reform in 1968/69 he moved to the Central Institute for Physics of the Earth (ZIPE) at the Academy of Sciences, where he completed his habilitation in 1980 with his thesis “Form and genesis of ruptures as an expression of the activity of the earth's crust ” and became head of the department for basement rock .

In 1982 Bankwitz was appointed professor of geology at the Central Institute for Earth Physics and in 1986 took over the management of the geology department. In 1988 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In 1990 he was elected a member of the scientific council of the Central Institute for Physics of the Earth and was involved in setting up the GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) in Potsdam until his retirement in 1996 . In 1997 Bankwitz became a member of the Leibniz Society . He lived in Potsdam until his death.

plant

Bankwitz 'work was dedicated to the construction and development of the Central German Crystalline Zone , rock deformation in Phyllitgebieten , genesis of ruptures, deep seismic and other geological work of importance for the assessment of the underground reservoirs that metallogeny of the Ore Mountains , the tectonics in the Werra-Kaligebiet and geological Remote sensing methods. Bankwitz published about 500 scientific publications, over 300 scientific reports and gave over 700 scientific lectures. His wife Elfriede Bankwitz was also his scientific partner , initially as a technical assistant and later as a qualified geologist . Among other things, he wrote for the magazine for geological sciences (ZGW).

Honors

literature

  • K. Hoth and M. Schwab: Peter Bankwitz In: Journal for Geological Science , 1996, on the 65th birthday of Peter Bankwitz
  • Martin Guntau :  Bankwitz, Peter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Werner Hartkopf: The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3050021539 , p. 15.
  • Rüdiger vom Bruch , Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (ed.): History of the University of Unter den Linden 1810–2010 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010.
  • German Society for Geosciences (DGG), A. Frischbutter: Peter Bankwitz 1931-2013. GMIT No. 53, Berlin 2013, ISSN  1616-3931 , pp. 73-74.
  • State Office for the Environment and Raw Materials Brandenburg, W. Stackebrandt: Prof. Dr. Peter Bankwitz passed away. In: Brandenburg Geoscientific Contributions, Vol. 20, No. 1–2, Kleinmachnow 2013, ISSN  0947-1995 , p. 157.
  • Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics (Acad Sci. Czech Republic), Editorial Board of Acta Geodynamica et Geomaterialia, Zdenka Schenkova: An orbituary of Prof. Peter Bankwitz. In: Acta Geodyn. Geomater., Vol. 10/171, No. 3, Acad. Sci. CZ, Prague 2013, ISSN  1214-9705 , p. 273.
  • Thuringian Geological Association, A. Frischbutter, H. Lützner: In memoriam Peter Bankwitz (1931-2013). Mitteilungsblatt Thür. Geol. Verein, No. 38 (1/14), Jena 2014, ISSN  1431-1593 , pp. 18-21.
  • M. Störr: List of publications by Peter Bankwitz (June 15, 1935 - June 23, 2013). In: Journal of Geological Sciences, Vol. 43, No. 3–4, Berlin 2015, ISSN  0303-4534 , pp. 213–239.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Bankwitz (obituary)
  2. ↑ On the 75th birthday of Peter Bankwitz (PDF; 566 kB) In: Journal of Geological Sciences .
personal data
SURNAME Bankwitz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenleipisch , Liebenwerda District , Province of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2013
Place of death Potsdam