Rudolf Stahlecker

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Rudolf Stahlecker on a Scalochrinotherium skull
Rudolf Stahlecker during an excavation of Pronothrotherium
Rudolf Stahlecker during an excavation of Pronothrotherium

Rudolf Eugen Stahlecker (born November 25, 1898 in Sternenfels near Pforzheim , † October 26, 1977 in Urach ) was a German teacher, geologist and vertebrate paleontologist .

Life

He studied with the German-Baltic paleontologist Friedrich von Huene at the University of Tübingen . In 1928 and 1929 he took part in expeditions in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul to collect fossils there. He also collected fossils in Argentina.

In his honor, Stahleckeria potens was named. The fossil remains of this dicynodontier were excavated near São Pedro do Sul in the paleontological site of Chiniquá.

After receiving his doctorate, Stahlecker did not become a scientist, but a biology teacher at a high school in Stuttgart. “The Führer wants to teach the people to think biologically again, we scientists have to be his first collaborators here,” he spread as his motto. After denazification he had to pause as a teacher for a few years, although as a biology teacher he was not as intensely involved in National Socialism as his younger brother, the SS brigad leader and commander of "Einsatzgruppe A" Walter Stahlecker .

Works

  • Brown Jura and tectonics in the Kirchheim-Urach volcanic area . Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1926.
  • together with Friedrich von Huene: Geological observations in Rio Grande do Sul . In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy . tape 65 , 1931, pp. 1-82 .

literature

  • Antônio Isaia: Os Fascinantes Caminhos da Paleontologia. Pallotti Publishing House (in Portuguese).
  • Romeu Beltrão: Cronologia Histórica de Santa Maria e do extinto município de São Martinho. 1787-1933. Volume I. Pallotti Verlag, 1958. (in Portuguese).

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Stahlecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Lang : Stahleckeria in the local palaeontological collection for 80 years - skull cast for the South Brazilian Museum. Showpiece from the stone desert. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Schwäbisches Tagblatt from May 20, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Stahlecker, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stahlecker, Rudolf Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, geologist and vertebrate paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Sternenfels near Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1977
Place of death Urach