Reinhart Kraatz

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Reinhart Kraatz (born July 13, 1925 in Seesen ; † November 1996 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist . He was considered one of the leading experts on Homo heidelbergensis (man from the wall ).

From 1946 Kraatz studied geology at the Bergakademie Clausthal , where he became a qualified geologist in 1954 and received his doctorate in 1956 under Wilhelm Simon . He followed Simon in 1957 as an assistant to the TU Berlin , where he built up the paleontological collection, and then to Heidelberg . In 1962 he became a curator at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of Heidelberg University . There he was in charge of the palaeontological collection and an archive focusing on hominid research with over 4000 mammalian bones around the famous lower jaw of the wall of Homo heidelbergensis and was curator at the Geological-Paleontological Institute. In 1966 he became an academic senior councilor and in 1980 academic director. He died in an accident.

He regularly organized excursions for geology students in the vicinity of Heidelberg and was an expert on regional geology. He also undertook larger expeditions abroad (in Europe and as far as Indonesia), but in particular to another well-known site of Homo erectus in the cave of Arago near Tautavel in southern France, where he began working closely with the French excavator Henry de Lumley in 1977 . In 1981 he was also instrumental in the town twinning between Tautavel and Mauer. It was also Kraatz who set up the prehistoric museum in Mauer's town hall, which opened in 1982.

Fonts

  • with Wilhelm Simon: Fossils from old outcrops in Kraichgau. In: Communications of the Baden State Association for Natural History and Nature Conservation, NF 11, 1, table 2, Freiburg im Breisgau 1973, p. 5-6 digitized
  • "Homo erectus heidelbergensis". New studies on the site, the fauna and the lower jaw of Mauer , in: Wilhelm Doerr (Ed.): Semper Apertus. Six hundred years Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1386–1986 , Springer 1985
  • A review of recent research on the Heidelberg man, 'Homo erectus heidelbergensis' , in: E. Delson: Ancestors - the hard evidence , New York: Liss 1985, pp. 268-271
  • Collaboration with Volker Schweizer : Kraichgau and southern Odenwald , Geological Guide Collection 72, Borntraeger 1982

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clausthal University Archive, Best. 205, No. 692.
personal data
SURNAME Kraatz, Reinhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleoanthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Seesen
DATE OF DEATH November 1996