Wilfried von Seidlitz

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Wilfried von Seidlitz (born August 31, 1880 in Berlin ; † April 1, 1945 ) was a German geologist and paleontologist . He was professor of geology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and president of the Prussian State Geological Institute .

Life

From 1919 von Seidlitz held the chair for geology at the University of Jena. He was the head of the Thuringian Geological State Survey founded in 1923 and founded the Thuringian Geological Association in 1925, of which he became 1st Chairman.

After Gustav Eichhorn's death in 1929, he initially ran the Germanic Museum at Jena University as a substitute . However, just a few weeks later, a successor was sought for the position.

In 1930 the Society for the Entire Mineralogy of Jena (forerunner of the mineralogy of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena ) split into the Mineralogical Institute headed by Fritz Heide (1891–1973) and the Geological Institute, whose management von Seidlitz took over and up to 1945 held.

In 1933 he was appointed President of the Prussian Geological Institute, he remained in this post until 1936. His successor in office was Julius Versé . In 1935 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1935 he was under discussion as a candidate for the main committee of the German Association for the Maintenance and Promotion of Research ; this had been politically aligned by the National Socialists the year before .

During the Second World War , von Seidlitz worked as a military geologist with the rank of colonel . He was seriously wounded in a low-flying attack at Flörtha train station in 1945 and died on April 1 in Eisenach hospital.

Works

  • Origin and disappearance of the Alps . 2., unchanged. Ed. Enke, Stuttgart 1934
  • Basics of the geology of Germany . Fischer, Jena 1933
  • The structure of the earth and the movements of its surface. J. Springer, Berlin 1932, 1st – 5th Thousand
  • Discordance and orogeny of the Mediterranean mountains . Borntraeger, Berlin 1931
  • Flanders . Borntraeger brothers, Berlin 1928
  • The western end of the northern Limestone Alps in the Rhätikon . Brothers Borntraeger, Berlin 1923
  • Experiences and successes in war geology . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1922
  • Revolutions in the history of the earth . Fischer, Jena 1920

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Thuringian Geological Association V. ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tgv-ev.de
  2. ↑ dmg-home.de ( MS Word )
  3. ^ Website of the University of Jena
  4. ↑ DFG research funding in the Third Reich 1933–1937
  5. ^ Forum of the Mining Archaeological Association Ruhr ev
  6. ↑ Dr. D. Willig, The Odyssey of the Defense Geologist Archives as part of the Heringen Collection, Geoinformationsdienst der Bundeswehr, Issue 4, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Seidlitz, Wilfried von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1945
Place of death Eisenach