Roland Brinkmann

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Roland Brinkmann (born January 23, 1898 in Hagenow ; † April 3, 1995 in Hamburg ) was a German geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Brinkmann, son of a businessman, studied geology in Rostock after graduating from secondary school in the summer semester of 1917 , then moved to Tübingen in 1918 and briefly returned to Rostock from February to April 1919. In 1921 he completed his studies with a doctorate under Wilhelm Deecke at the University of Freiburg ( structure of the Diluvium in Northern Germany ). Immediately following Brinkmann was until 1933 as assistant to the Nestor of that geology, Hans Stille , at the Geological Institute of the University of Goettingen hired. In 1929, after he completed his habilitation in 1923 (on the stratigraphy of the Jura in the southern Baltic States), he was appointed adjunct professor. During this time he dealt a lot with the geology of south-east Spain.

In 1933 Brinkmann accepted the chair for geology and palaeontology at the University of Hamburg . At the same time, Roland Brinkmann was entrusted with the management of the Geological State Institute in Hamburg. After he had signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state in November 1933 , he was expelled from the NSDAP in May 1937 and had to leave Germany because he had developed a critical attitude towards National Socialism . After stays in Spain and Portugal (he worked for a German-Spanish company that was looking for tin and tungsten in Galicia), he was assigned to the branch of the Reich Office for Soil Research in Cracow in 1940 after his company had merged with the Reich Office. In 1940 the first edition of the Geology Textbook appeared, which later made him known. In Poland he was active in the exploration of deposits, where he also learned Polish.

In 1944 he was back in Berlin. In 1946, Brinkmann was appointed Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University of Rostock . Poland turned to the Soviet occupation authorities extradition request to all persons who held senior positions during the occupation of Poland and Brinkmann was therefore delivered by the Russian occupying power in Poland, where he 1949-1951 in custody was detained. In the following process (among other things because of the enrichment of Polish state property) he defended himself. After the allegations against him had proven to be unfounded, he was acquitted and fully rehabilitated.

In 1952 Brinkmann was appointed to the University of Bonn as the successor to the late Hans Cloos ; in the same year he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Academic Academy . In 1958/9 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. After his retirement in 1963, Brinkmann was given the task of establishing a new geological institute at the University of Izmir . During this time he co-authored with graduate and doctoral students the "Geology of Turkey", published 1976. 1973 returned Brinkmann finally back to Germany. His son-in-law was the German geologist Egon T. Degens .

He has received numerous honors, including the award of the Hans Stille Medal in 1948 and the Gustav Steinmann Medal in 1965, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1971.

Roland Brinkmann married Margarete Schrepfer (1887–1984) in 1923, Germany's first mineralogist with a doctorate . The couple had three daughters and three sons. Brinkmann died in Hamburg at the old age of 97.

Act

Roland Brinkmann, whose research interests focused on the entire geology, wrote papers on the Jura in northern Germany , East Prussia and Lithuania during his time as assistant to Hans Stille , as well as the famous and, with its statistical approach, completely breaking new ground "Statistical-phyllogenetic investigations on ammonites" , 1927, as well as the "Monograph of the genus Kosmoceras" , 1929. In it he followed the evolution of the ammonite Kosmoceras by analyzing around 3,000 specimens in a centimeter-accurate procedure in 14 m thick Oxford clay (from Peterborough ) from the Jura. His classic study was considered a prime example of the evidence of evolutionary development in paleontology with morphological changes occurring linearly over time. He interpreted jumps in morphology as an interruption in the fossil record (shift gaps) and he even thought he could make statements about the duration of the shift gaps from the size of the jumps.

During his time in Hamburg he gained important research results, especially on the Eastern Alps . There he recognized the importance of the Gosau sediments for dating the ceiling movements. During his time in Bonn he devoted himself to isotope geology, palaeomagnetic investigations and several works on the influence of stress and the deformation and anisotropy of rocks.

Brinkmann was mainly known through his textbook "Abriß der Geologie" in two volumes, founded by Emanuel Kayser . In addition, he published the " Geologische Rundschau " from 1951 to 1960 .

Fonts

  • Abriß der Geologie , Enke Verlag, Volume 1 General Geology , 10th Edition 1967, Volume 2 Historical Geology , 9th Edition 1966. The book originated from Emanuel Kayser's Abriss der Geologie, but from 1954 only Brinkmann is listed as the author. New editions:
    • General Geology , 13th edition, Enke Verlag 1984, revised by Werner Zeil
    • Historical geology , Stuttgart, Enke Verlag, 13th edition 1986, revised by Karl Krömmelbein
    • His historical geology has also been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and English: Geologic evolution of Europe , Enke Verlag, Hafner, New York 1960
  • Geology of Turkey , Enke Verlag 1976.

literature

  • Egon T. Degens and Erol Izdar Dedication to Professor Roland Brinnkmann on Occasion of his 90th birthday (23rd January 1988) in Deep Gratitude .- In: ET Degens, E. Izdar and S. Honjo: Particle Flux in the Ocean , Mitt. Ad Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Hamburg, SCOPE-UNEP special volume, 62: VII-VIII.
  • Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 21st Edition , Vol. 4, p. 673, October 2005; ISBN 376534141X .
  • Jürgen Ehlers : The Geological Institute of the Hamburg University in the thirties, in: Eckart Krause u. a. (Ed.), Everyday University Life in the "Third Reich". The Hamburg University 1933–1945, Berlin / Hamburg 1991, Part III, pp. 1223–1244.
  • Roland Brinkmann 1898-1995 , In: Geologische Rundschau 85 , pp. 186-190, March 1996.
  • Bernhard Hubmann: The great geologists . Marix Verlag, 2009, chapter Roland Brinkmann.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment (1) by Roland Brinkmann in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Enrollment (2) by Roland Brinkmann in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ According to Hubmann The Great Geologists , 2009, it was an intrigue

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personal data
SURNAME Brinkmann, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagenow
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1995
Place of death Hamburg