Reinhard Streit

Reinhard Streit (born August 13, 1935 in Röwersdorf ; † September 30, 2005 in Munich ) was a German geologist and science historian .

The family was expelled from the Sudetenland in 1946 and Streit grew up in Fürth. After graduating from high school in 1957, he studied geology at the University of Erlangen and in Zurich with a doctorate in Erlangen in 1963 ( facies relations and storage of the White Jura on sheet Burgheim Nord (Southern Franconian Alb), published in Erlanger Geolog. Abhandlungen). His teachers in Erlangen included Bruno von Freyberg and Florian Heller . From 1964 to 1967 he was Karl Brunnacker's assistant at the University of Cologne, where he dealt with Quaternary geology (including cave sediments ) and also with aerial photography. He then worked at the Bavarian State Geological Office, most recently as a government director . He headed the department of geological maps and aerial photography, was an archivist and librarian. In various explanations of geological maps of Bavaria, he wrote sections on the Quaternary and aerial photographs. In 2000 he retired.

For many years he was the author of the annual volumes of the geoscientific literature of Bavaria and wrote about the history of the Bavarian geological survey.

Streit was a hobby beekeeper, published on beekeeping and Sudeten German local history.

Fonts

• with Winfried Weinelt u. a .: Explanations of the Geological Map of Bavaria 1: 25,000, sheet no. 6020 Aschaffenburg (Munich 1971), 133, 1–398
• with Winfried Weinelt and Martin Okrusch : Explanations of the geological map of Bavaria 1: 25,000. Sheet 5920 Alzenau i. Ufr. 1967

literature

• Thomas Sperling: Obituary in: Geologica Bavarica. Volume 109, 2006, pp. 203-216.

References and comments

1. ^ R. Streit: The beginning of the geological survey in Bavaria and the publication of its results. In: Thomas Sperling (ed.): Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898). Life and work of the most important geologist in Bavaria. Pfeil, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-931516-87-3 , pp. 91-118.