Roger Schallreuter
Roger Schallreuter (born September 23, 1937 in Harrow on the Hill , Middlesex, England; † November 2, 2013 in Greifswald ) was a German geologist .
His father, the physicist Walter Schallreuter (born March 24, 1895 in Berlin; † April 16, 1975) was Professor of Physics at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald since 1953 . His mother was Benita, b. Konow. His family returned to Germany in 1939, where after stays in Saarbrücken, Coburg, Berlin, Kalisch (Warthegau) and Ilmenau, they settled in Greifswald in 1946, where he graduated from high school in 1955.
Roger Schallreuter's interest in North German bed load and geology was stimulated by the discovery of an Ice Age bed load with a trilobite tail shield on the beach near Sellin ( Rügen ). In 1955 he began studying geology in Jena, and in 1960 wrote his thesis on the Ordovician of the Thuringian Slate Mountains. His teachers included the geologist Fritz Deubel , the mineralogist Fritz Heide and the paleontologist Arno Hermann Müller . His doctoral thesis (doctorate on July 13, 1966) directed him to the field of micropalaeontology and bed load research.
When in 1968 with the III. University reform the Geological-Paleontological Institute was incorporated into the Geological Sciences section , his employment relationship was changed to a temporary one. He ran into problems because he did not want to join the SED and was accepted into Otto Miehlke 's office, where he carried out sedimentological investigations for coastal protection .
He was held in custody for about five months in September 1973 because he was preparing to flee the GDR . In 1975 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1975 to 2002 he worked as a research assistant at the Geological-Palaeontological Institute of the University of Hamburg , initially under Ulrich Lehmann . After his habilitation in October 1978, he held a substitute professorship in Essen in 1983 . From 1984 to 1986 he worked under Gerhard Alberti . Schallreuter specialized in the scientific investigation of ancient Paleozoic microfossils , in particular ostracods , age dating and the determination of the origin of Nordic debris. He published over 400 scientific papers, described 250 animal genera and 600 species anew.
In October 1984 he founded the Gesellschaft für Geschiebekunde , was its chairman for many years and was responsible for the editorial design of “Geschiebekunde aktuell” and “Archiv für Geschiebekunde”. Since the early 1990s he was married to the paleontologist Ingelore Hinz-Schallreuter ; the two were linked by a close research and publication community for over two decades.
literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Reich, Karsten Obst: Roger Schallreuter 1937 - 2013 . In: GMit - Geoscientific Communications . No. 54 , December 2013, p. 105-106 ( researchgate.net ).
- ↑ Obituary: PD Dr. Roger Schallreuter obituary, at geschiebekunde.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schallreuter, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harrow on the Hill , Middlesex |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 2013 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |