Werner Schwan
Werner Schwan (born January 27, 1917 in Berlin ; † July 16, 2002 ) was a German geologist and was most recently a professor at the University of Erlangen . He dealt u. a. with the tectonics of German low mountain ranges , the Alps and the Balkans , the Greek and Turkish mountains and the Himalayas .
After graduating, Schwan worked at the Geological Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin. After his habilitation , he took over the management of the Geotectonic Institute of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in the GDR in 1957 , although he lived in West Berlin . After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, he gave up this position under pressure from the GDR government and moved to the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the University of Münster in Westphalia as a university lecturer and associate professor until he accepted a call to Erlangen in 1964.
Until his retirement in 1982, Schwan was Professor of Geology at the Institute for Geology and Mineralogy of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was the academic teacher of about 100 geologists and known for sound scientific points of view. Research and lecture trips led him a. a. to Japan, China and back India.
Even after his retirement he made several research trips to the Himalayas, Greece and Turkey and published on specific questions of the earth's crust tectonics, most recently mainly in Central Europe .
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| SURNAME | Schwan, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 2002 |