Waldemar Weissermel

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Waldemar Weiss Ermel (* 7. July 1870 in wholesale Kruschin , West Prussia ; † 28. December 1943 in Eberswalde ) was a German geologist and coral - paleontologist .

family

Waldemar Weissermel was the youngest of six sons of the West Prussian landowner Otto Weissermel and his wife Ottilie nee. Dopatka. With his wife Elsa geb. Scotland , whom he married in 1901 as the daughter of a high school director in Strasburg , West Prussia , he had a son and a daughter.

Life

After graduating from high school, Waldemar Weissermel began studying zoology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , but after the first semester he switched to the Philipps-Universität Marburg , where he began studying geology under Emanuel Kayser . In 1890 he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg . As an inactive he went to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Albertus-Universität Königsberg . With a doctorate at Ernst Koken he was in March 1894 summa cum laude for Dr. phil. PhD . After working as an assistant at the geological institutes of the Albertina, the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , he joined the Prussian State Geological Institute in Berlin in 1898 as an assistant geologist . Under the guidance of Felix Wahnschaffe , he began with the geological survey of five measuring table leaves in the lowlands of the Westprignitz district . Then he worked on five sheets in the area around Halle (Saale) , five sheets in the area of Quedlinburg and Aschersleben and finally the Brakel sheet in East Westphalia . In 1904 Waldemar Weissermel was appointed Kgl. District geologist appointed. Habilitated private lecturer since 1905 , he was appointed state geologist in 1911.

During the First World War he served as a reserve officer in the Prussian Army . Most recently he was captain in Küstrin and Neudamm in Neumark .

The TH Berlin appointed him department director and associate professor in 1922 . From 1927 he was responsible for the collections in the Prussian State Geological Institute. The political developments at the beginning of the Third Reich and the personnel policy in the Prussian Geological Institute prompted Weissermel to leave the service at his own request in 1934. Without the administrative and academic obligations, he was able to devote himself to his favorite field all the more profitably in the last decade of his life. Essays on corals from the Carboniferous of Thuringia (1935) and northern Spain (1935), from the Old Paleozoic of Chios (1938) and from Bithynia (1939) appeared in quick succession . In addition to the corals, Weissermel also occupied himself with cephalopods at times , in particular with the Quenstedtocerates from East Prussian debris .

A serious illness during a recreational stay in West Prussia forced him to return to Berlin. Weissermel suffered a stroke on the way there . When his apartment with the valuable library was destroyed in the Allied air raids, he was evacuated to Eberswalde , where he died on December 28, 1943. He was buried in his homeland in West Prussia.

Genera named after Waldemar Weissermel

  • White meliceras BUCKMAN 1920
  • Weissermelia LANG, SMITH & THOMAS 1940

Memberships

Cartographic publications

Geological maps 1:25 000

  • 1901: Rambow
  • 1901: Schnackenburg
  • 1905: Balow, with Grabow
  • 1905: Karstedt
  • 1908: Dieskau (Döllnitz), with L. Siegert
  • 1908: Halle ad S. (South), 1st edition, with L. Siegert a . K. v. Fritsch
  • 1909: Landsberg b. Halle, with E. Picard, W. Quitzow, B. Kühn a . B. Dammer
  • 1909: Merseburg-West
  • 1909: Weißenfels
  • 1914: Geological agronomic map of the area around Quedlinburg, with H. Schroeder
  • 1926: Cochstedt / Kochstedt, with K. Keilhack
  • 1926: Aschersleben, with OH Erdmannsdörffer a . E. Fulda
  • 1926: Ballenstedt, with OH Erdmannsdörffer, W. Schriel u. F. Dahlgrün
  • 1929: Brakel
  • 1926: Wegeleben
  • 1927: Halle ad S. (South), 2nd edition, with E. Fulda
  • 1927: Quedlinburg, with H. Schroeder, OH Erdmannsdörffer, L. Siegert, G. Fliegel u. F. Dahlgrün

Fonts

  • The corals of the Silurgeschiebe East Prussia and East Prussia. Dissertation, Königsberg 1894
  • The corals of the Silurgeschiebe East Prussia and East Prussia. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 46, Berlin 1894, 580–674, 7 plates.
  • Contribution to knowledge of the genus Quenstedticeras. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 47, Berlin 1895, 307–330, 3 plates.
  • On the biology and organization of the cephalopods. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 54, Berlin 1906, pp. 99-100
  • The corals of the German Muschelkalk. I. Lower Muschelkalk. In: Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute, 46, Berlin 1925, 1–33, 2 plates.
  • The corals of the German Muschelkalk II, Upper Muschelkalk. In: Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute, 49, Berlin 1928, 224–238, 2 plates.

literature

  • Corps newspaper of Teutonia Marburg 2/1944, p. 13

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Archive of Coral Research (1998)
  2. ↑ a b c d Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia Marburg 1825 to 2000 . Marburg 2000
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 104/737
  4. ↑ Dissertation: The corals of the Silurgeschiebe East Prussia and eastern West Prussia
personal data
SURNAME Weissermel, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Kruschin, West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1943
Place of death Eberswalde