Walter Maximilian Lehmann

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Walter Maximilian Lehmann (born January 16, 1880 in Berlin , † September 22, 1959 in Bonn ) was a German paleontologist .

Lehmann was initially a businessman in the export department of a locomotive and wagon factory, which led to business trips through Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor. He later ran his own company for light railways in Italy. In 1920 he made up his Abitur in Hamburg and studied natural sciences in Hamburg and Berlin, with his doctorate in 1924 under Georg Gürich in Hamburg on X-ray structure examinations of a mineral. He then worked as a scientist in an X-ray tube factory and at the same time gave lectures at technical schools in Hamburg. Later he was a lecturer in geology and from 1948 honorary professor at the Mineralogical Institute of the University of Bonn , where he headed the X-ray department.

Lehmann is known for researching the fossils of the Hunsrück slate from the Lower Devonian. Ferdinand von Roemer (1818-1891, professor in Breslau) described the first fossils there in 1862 and from the 1920s the palaeontologists Ferdinand Broili , Fritz Kutscher , W. Erich Schmidt (1882-1950) and Rudolf Richter were also involved in the research the collector Rudolf Opitz (with a monograph 1932) and the Bonn fossil dealer Bernhard Stürtz (1845–1928, who published about it in the 19th century).

In 1957 his monograph The Asterozoen in the Roof Slates of the Rhenish Lower Devonian (Abh. Hessisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung) was published, which was largely completed before the Second World War, but could only appear later because of the war. He was the first to use X-ray methods on the fossils of the Hunsrück slate, which the physicist Wilhelm Stürmer (in the X-ray department at Siemens) continued at the end of the 1960s.

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literature

  • H. Gerth, Obituary in Paläontologische Zeitschrift, Volume 25, 1961, p. 231

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Bartels: The Lower Devonian roof slate from Bundenbach , in Werner K. Weidert Classical Findings of Paleontology , Volume 3, Goldschneck Verlag, 1995, p. 42
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Walter Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1959
Place of death Bonn