Theo Simon

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Theo Simon (* 1947 ) is a German geologist . He held a leading position at the geological state office in Stuttgart and later in Freiburg with the geological survey of Baden-Württemberg.

life and work

Simon was initially a surveyor and studied geodesy at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (graduate engineer 1971). He then studied geology and paleontology at the University of Stuttgart with a diploma in 1975. He received his doctorate there in 1980 with the dissertation hydrogeological investigations in the Muschelkalk Karst of Hohenlohe and then worked as a geologist with work contracts for the Regionalverband Nord-Württemberg, the state water supply and the city of Stuttgart. In 1981 he became a geologist in the state geological service of Baden-Württemberg, initially in the engineering geology department and from 1983 in hydrogeology. From 1995 he held a leading position at the Geological State Office (which was dissolved in 1998 and assigned to the regional council in Freiburg as part of an administrative reform) and was responsible for the geological state survey. In 1995 he became an honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart. In 2010 he retired and lives in Fichtenberg .

Simon dealt particularly with the regional geology of Baden-Württemberg (also hydrogeology, salt deposits) and in particular the Triassic and Permian . He is chairman of the Perm-Triassic sub-commission of the German Stratigraphic Commission.

He has also published works on regional geology in Baden-Württemberg for a wide audience, works with collectors and regularly organized geological walks. He has been chairman of the Natural History Society in Württemberg since 2013 and is a member of the geology and palaeontology working group in the Kirchberg an der Jagst Museum and Culture Association . Simon also dealt with geology history.

Fonts

  • Sinkholes in the Muschelkalkkarst of the western Hohenlohe plain between Kocher and Jagst, Geological Yearbook A, Volume 56, 1980
  • with Hans Hagdorn : Geology and Landscape of the Hohenloher Land, 2nd edition, Thorbecke 1988
  • with Hans Hagdorn, J. Szulc: Muschelkalk. A field guide, Goldschneck-Verlag, Korb 1991.
  • Salt and salt production in northern Baden-Württemberg: geology, technology, history, Thorbecke 1992
  • The history of the Muschelkalkkarst aquifer system in northern Baden-Württemberg, Geological Yearbook C, Volume 66, 1999
  • with W. Hansch (editor): The rock salt from the Middle Muschelkalk in southwest Germany, Museo, Volume 20, 2003
  • with Herbert Schüßler: Wood becomes stone. Silica wood from the Keuper Franconia, geological and archaeological working group in the Kirchberger Museums- und Kulturverein (MKV), Bergatreute: Eppe Verlag 2007
  • with Hans Hagdorn: Der Muschelkalk in the Stratigraphic Table of Germany 2002, Newsl. Stratigr., 41, 2005, pp. 143–158 (ESTD 11)
  • with Manfred Menning, Reinhard Gast, Hans Hagdorn, Karl-Christian Käding, Michael Szurlies, Edgar Nitsch: time scale for Permian and Triassic in the Stratigraphic Table of Germany 2002, cyclostratigraphic calibration of the higher Dyas and Germanic Triassic and the age of the stages Roadium to Rhaetium , Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 41, 2005, pp. 173–210 (ESTD 13)
  • with Otto F. Geyer , Manfred Gwinner , Matthias Geyer , Edgar Nitsch: Geology of Baden-Württemberg. 5th edition, 627 pages, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 2011 ISBN 978-3-510-65267-9 (revision of the Geyer-Gwinner)
  • with Herbert Schüßler, Manfred Warth: Origin, beauty and riddle of the Hohenloher flint, geological and archaeological working group in the Kirchberger Museums- und Kulturverein (MKV), 1999, 3rd edition, Bergatreute: Eppe Verlag 2014
  • Editor: Walter Carlé memorial book , Stuttgart: Society for Natural History in Württemberg eV, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Structure of the German Stratigraphic Commission , accessed on April 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Collectors of flint stones from the Triassic, shell limestone fossils and fossil woods from Keuper in Hohenloher Land, living in Rot am See. One of the fossil ginkgo species he found is named after him. (Baieroxylon schuessleri)
  3. ↑ Explanations of the Stratigraphic Table of Germany , Schweitzerbart
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947