Uwe Hoffmann (geologist)
Uwe Hanno Gottfried Hoffmann (born April 10, 1938 in Liegnitz ; † February 7, 2016 ) was a German geologist.
Hoffmann was the son of a teacher and first went to school in Hermsdorf , but had to flee from the Red Army as a child with the family and finally came to Osterburg (Altmark) , where his father worked as a teacher again after returning from Soviet captivity. In 1952 the family moved west to Weinsberg near Heilbronn , where Hoffmann attended high school. In 1957 he passed the Abitur in Heilbronn and studied geology in Würzburg and Kiel with the diploma in 1962. For the diploma thesis he mapped in the northeast of Ochsenfurt and for the dissertation in 1964 with Erwin Rutte in Würzburg he mapped in Würzburg-Süd (addition to the dissertation, which was graded summa cum laude : Stratigraphy of the Triassic and tectonics in southern Lower Franconia). From 1965 to 1967 he worked at the Bavarian State Geological Office (mapping in Würzburg North), but then quit his job and went abroad to prospect as a geologist. In 1967 he was in Zambia (copper deposits), then until 1972 in Namibia in search of copper, lead and zinc and then as a senior geologist until 1975 in search of uranium ( Rössing mine ). He then went on uranium exploration in Bolivia, Botswana and Brazil (mine of Lagoa Real). From 1984 he was again at the Bavarian Geological State Office, where he was responsible as head of department for the exploration of landfill sites and from 2000 also mapped again in the geological state survey of Lower Franconia ( Bad Kissingen north and south), which he continued to do after his retirement in 2003 2014 continued (sheets Münnerstadt , Sandberg , Zeitlofs , Stangenroth , Wildflecken ). A total of nine geological maps 1: 25,000 with explanations come from him.
As a raw material geologist, he discovered three large deposits. In regional geology, he was particularly concerned with the Triassic ( red sandstone ) in Lower Franconia ( Rhön ).
He had been married to Hannelore Helene Trunk since 1965 and had five children.
Dedication names
- 2014 by Ralf Werneburg , Ilja Kogan and Jürgen Sell : The fish Saurichthys hoffmanni WERNEBURG, KOGAN & SELL 2014
literature
- W. Freudenberger: Obituary Dr. Uwe Hanno Gottfried Hoffmann, Geologia Bavarica, Volume 114, 2016, pp. 119–121
Individual evidence
- ^ R. Werneburg, I. Kogan and J. Sell: Saurichthys ( Pisces ): Actinopterygii from the red sandstone ( Trias ) of the Germanic basin . In: Semana 29, 2014, pp. 3-35, Terra Triassica Euerdorf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Uwe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoffmann, Uwe Hanno Gottfried (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liegnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 2016 |