Theodor Schmierer

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Theodor Schmierer (born June 16, 1879 in Rieth near Vaihingen an der Enz ; † July 10, 1953 in Berlin-Waidmannslust ) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

Schmierer went to high school in Leonberg, Cannstatt and Tübingen and from 1898 studied natural sciences with a focus on geology, botany and zoology in Tübingen, where he received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1901 . ( The age ratio of the "Epsilon" and "Zeta" levels of the white Jura. ) From 1903 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute (PGLA), where he mapped in Brandenburg and the Swabian Alb (including Haigerloch ) (trained by Konrad Keilhack ) and worked as a consulting geologist for an oil drilling company in Argentina and Bolivia in 1908/09. In 1913 he became a district geologist. During the First World War he was a military geologist. In 1919 he became a district geologist with the title of professor and mapped around Koblenz. In 1927 he became a regional geologist and in 1929 he headed the publications department of the PGLA. In this function, he mainly dealt with the modernization of the cartographic process and only took on reworking of geological maps in the Berlin area. After he was discharged from civil service in 1933 - partly as a result of intrigue - he dealt with mollusks, being in Denmark and Sweden in 1935 and 1938. After the war he was head of the collections of the German State Geological Institute in East Berlin from 1945 and trained the next generation in mapping in the Golden Aue and in the southern Harz. In 1948 he suffered a first stroke, of which he died in 1953.

He mapped, among other things, in the Magdeburg-Braunschweig area and in Helmstedt . When mapping in Fläming in 1910, he described folds caused by the glacial period (like Felix Wahnschaffe in 1906 in Freienwalde and Fürstenwalde). He also prepared appraisals for mineral resources (oil, clay, gravel, brown coal).

He dealt mainly with mollusks of the Tertiary and Quaternary (interglacial). His mollusc collection went to the Natural History Museum Berlin and the Reichsmuseum Stockholm. In 1951 he received the golden doctoral diploma from the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

Fonts

  • On the tectonics of the upper Allertal and the neighboring mountain ranges, Z. Ddt. geol. Ges., 61, 1909, pp. 499-515
  • The mountain-forming processes between the Flechtinger mountain range and the Helmstedter lignite hollow, Jber. Nieders. geol. Ver., 3, 1910, pp. 217-255; Hanover.
  • About a glacial folded area on western Fläming, its tectonics and its stratigraphy with special consideration of the marine oligocene, Jb. KPGLA, 31, I, for 1910, Berlin 1913, pp. 106-135
  • About fossil-bearing interglacial deposits near Oschersleben and Ummendorf (Prov. Saxony) and about the structure of the Magdeburg-Braunschweig Diluvium in general, Jb. KPGLA, 33, II, for 1912, Berlin 1914, pp. 400-417

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Z. Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, 54, 1902, pp. 525–607
personal data
SURNAME Schmierer, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Rieth
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1953
Place of death Berlin