Ulrich Wutzke

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Wutzke in his study in February 2019.

Wutzke in his study in March 2011.

Wutzke at the end of the 1970s during a lecture at the Hoyerswerda “Circle of Friends of the Arts and Literature” (today: Hoyerswerda Art Association).

Ulrich Wutzke (born October 13, 1946 in Berlin-Pankow ) is a German geologist , geological historian, publisher and editor.

Life

Origin, education and private life

He was born as the son of a father from East Prussia (1918–2004) and a mother born in Thuringia (1927–1984) in the Berlin district of Pankow and has a brother with Reinhold (* 1948). After graduating from high school in 1965 , he worked for a year in a hydrogeological exploration company. Wutzke then enrolled in Berlin in 1966 to study geology, but already switched to the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald the following year - as part of a restructuring of the GDR educational landscape . There he completed his diploma thesis in 1971 on the subject of investigations into the isotope geochemistry of carbon in fractions of petroleum in the northeast of the GDR .

In 2017 he was awarded the dissertation Alfred Wegener - A Life for Science. Scientific work between paradigm shift and apology at Josef-Michael Schramm and John Seidl at the University of Salzburg doctorate .

Ulrich Wutzke is married, lives in Ahrensfelde and has three children, Matthias (* 1973), Sebastian (* 1984) and Stephanie (* 1987).

Working life

Wutzke started his professional life in 1971 at the Berlin-based Akademie-Verlag , where he worked in magazine management. In 1973 he moved within the city to the Central Geological Institute of the GDR (ZGI) in the Mitte district . There he was entrusted with the publication of the yearbook for geology and the treatises of the Central Geological Institute . For political and ideological reasons, however, he was dismissed in 1978 and banned from working. In 1998 he was recognized as a politically persecuted person under the SED regime. After his release, Wutzke worked as a freelance science journalist and wrote numerous articles on geological topics for the weekly post and for the science page of the Berliner Zeitung . In addition, he worked for Urania and got a job as a proofreader at the Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften .

After reunification , in the 1990s he was responsible for typesetting and layout of the journal Brandenburg Geoscientific Contributions , which is published by the Brandenburg State Office for Mining, Geology and Raw Materials . Since 1998 he has been the founding managing director of the Berlin Geosciences Publishing House and editor-in-chief of the publisher's own specialist journal Geohistorische Blätter ( twice a year). This initially appeared on behalf of the "Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Geological Historians ' Leopold von Buch '" founded by Martin Guntau shortly before ; Wutzke soon took over the editorship himself. After the publishing house had taken over the publication rights for the magazine for geological sciences, which has been published since 1973 (4 times a year) from the Akademie-Verlag in 2005, Wutzke also acted here - initially partly in collaboration with other specialist colleagues Editor-in-chief. At the beginning of 2010, the news sheet on the history of geosciences of the "Working Group History of Geosciences" of the German Society for Geosciences (DGG) was included in the Geohistorische Blätter , making the latter the official journal of the working group from its 20th edition. Wutzke kept the editorial office. Since the merger of the DGG with the Geological Association , the working group has continued to exist in the new DGGV society , on whose behalf the Geohistorische Blätter are now being published by Wutzke. Between 2002 and 2015, Wutzke also designed the typesetting and layout of the journal Geoscientific Mitteilungen ( GMit ) - a joint publication of various German geological associations.

Due to a progressive visual impairment , Wutzke discontinued the magazine for geological sciences in 2019. However , he continues the Geohistorische Blätter .

Others

He is considered a profound expert on the life and work of Alfred Wegener and has published several biographies about the scientist since the late 1980s, which have become standard works . Furthermore, he headed a circle of friends of geology and mineralogy enthusiasts in Berlin-Pankow for ten years and has been a founding member of the “History of Earth Sciences working group” at the Austrian Geological Society since 1999 - together with Celâl Şengör , Tillfried Cernajsek and Bernhard Hubmann , among others .

In addition to his full-time geological activities, he is also interested in archeology and ancient studies ; he is self- taught with Egyptian hieroglyphs and has repeatedly given slide shows in the Freiberg “Freundeskreis Alte Kulturen”.

Honors

In 2007, the designated paleontologist Roger Schallreuter , Ingelore Hinz-Schallreuter , Annalisa Ferretti and Enrico Serpagli in honor of Ulrich Wutzke one on Sardinia found oberordovizische ostracods -Art as Bairdia wutzkei .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Borsdorf, Karl-Heinz / Wutzke, Ulrich: The geological literature on the Harz, 1958–1975 - Harz bibliography . In the series: "Treatises of the Central Geological Institute", № 35, Berlin, 1977.
• Wutzke, Ulrich: The researcher from the Friedrichsgracht. Life and achievement of Alfred Wegener . VEB Brockhaus , Leipzig , 1988, ISBN 978-3-325-00173-0 .
• Wutzke, Ulrich: Through the white desert. Life and achievements of the Greenland explorer and discoverer of the continental drift Alfred Wegener . Edition Petermann , Gotha , 1997, ISBN 978-3-623-00354-2 .
• Wutzke, Ulrich: Alfred Wegener. Annotated directory of the written documents of his life and work . In the series: “Reports on Polar Research”, Volume 288, Alfred Wegener Institute , Bremerhaven , 1998.
• Wutzke, Ulrich: Climate, craters, continents. The life of the Greenland explorer and discoverer of the continental drift Alfred Wegener . Geosciences Publishing House , Berlin , 2015, ISBN 978-3-9814603-0-8 .

Articles in collective works

• Wutzke, Ulrich: In the footsteps of Alfred Wegener. Geohistorical excursion to GeoBerlin 2015 . In: GeoBerlin 2015. Dynamic Earth - From Alfred Wegener to today and into the future. Excursion guide (= excursion guide and publications of the German Society for Geosciences , issue 255), pages 103–112.
• Wutzke, Ulrich: Alfred Wegener . In: Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ( Hrsg. ): New German biography . Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot , Berlin , 2020, ISBN 978-3-428-11208-1 , pages 544-546.

Editing

• Wutzke, Ulrich ( Ed. ): Alfred Wegener : With motorboat and sledge in Greenland. "German Greenland Expedition Alfred Wegener" . Edition Erdmann , Lenningen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86539-866-6 . Reprint of the first edition from 1930.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Wutzke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of completed doctoral procedures in the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of Salzburg. Retrieved from uni-salzburg.at on February 3, 2019.
2. ↑ Wasternack, J. et al. : Report of the rehabilitation commission in the former Central Geological Institute, Berlin, on incidents of regulation, disciplinary measures and discrimination against employees, especially in the period 1976–1989 . Berlin, 1991.
3. ↑ Geoscientific Communications , Issue № 38, December 2009, page 56.
4. ↑ Schallreuter, R. et al. : Late Ordovician Ostracodes from Sardinia and Perigondwanan Ostracode Palaeobiogeography . In: Journal of Geological Sciences , Vol. 35, № 4–5, 2007, pages 253–331.