Peter Cramer (geologist)

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Peter Cramer (born November 25, 1910 in Berlin-Friedenau ; † September 15, 2003 ) was a German geologist .

family

Peter Cramer was the son of the government geologist at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA) Rudolf Cramer . In 1939 he married Eva Maria Finger in Hanover, with whom he had a son. He lived with her in Bad Wiessee.

Life

From 1930 he studied geology in Berlin and Innsbruck (with Bruno Sander ) and received his doctorate in 1937 with Hans Stille in Berlin on stratigraphy and tectonics in the south and east of the Rhön . He then mapped for the PGLA in the Lüneburg Heath and worked as an expert, from 1937 he was assistant to Alfred Bentz at the TH Hannover . At Bentz he specialized in petroleum geology, was with Preussag in Hanover in 1938 (and passed the 1st state examination as a geologist at the PGLA, the 2nd state examination in 1941) and from 1939 under Bentz at the Reich Office for Soil Research. During the war he was a petroleum geologist in Romania, among other places, where he worked with Karl Krejci-Graf . From 1945 he was at the Office for Soil Research in Hanover and from 1947/48 at the Bavarian State Geological Office. In 1970 he became a government director and in 1975 he retired.

He mapped in northwest Bavaria ( Iphofen , Frammersbach , Schweinfurt ) and around Regensburg ( Regenstauf , as well as Regensburg itself with W. Bauberger, H. Tillmann 1966) and was responsible for publications of the state office and for basic research. In the explanations for the geological map of Bavaria 1: 500,000 from 1954, he wrote the sections Perm in northwest Bavaria, red sandstone, shell limestone, tertiary in northwest Bavaria outside the Rhön, tectonics.

He wrote a book about the history of the Tegernsee valley (self-published, Bad Wiessee, 1991).

Cartographic publications

  • Geological map of Bavaria, 1: 25000 sheet No. 6227 Iphofen, Bavarian Geological State Office, Munich 1963

Fonts

  • Explanations of the Geological Map of Bavaria, 1: 25000 sheet No. 6227 Iphofen, 132 p., 14 illustrations, 1 supplement, Bavarian Geological State Office, Munich 1964

literature

  • Reinhard Streit , obituary in Geologica Bavarica, Volume 109, 2006, 197-202

References and comments

  1. ↑ Partly published as: The fault zones in the east of the Rhön, yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute in Berlin for the year 1937, volume 58: 746-777
personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 2003