Wolfgang Hartung (geologist)

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Wolfgang Hartung (born February 18, 1907 in Berlin ; † June 3, 1995 in Oldenburg ) was a German geologist.

Life

Hartung studied plant fossils in the Balkans in 1933 and received his doctorate from the paleobotanist Walther Gothan at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1933 ( The Spore Relationships of the Calamariaceen ) and habilitated in 1938 (Flora and Age of the Carboniferous von Hainichen - Ebersdorf and Borna near Chemnitz, Abh . Saxon Geological State Office, 1938). He was then until 1939 at the Prussian State Geological Institute , where he was a district geologist . From 1945 until his retirement in 1972 he was director of the State Museum for Natural History and Prehistory in Oldenburg . In addition, he taught at the University of Hamburg from 1954 and was honorary professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1963 .

Among other things, he dealt with the island of Mellum in the mudflats between the Jade and Weser rivers, the Leybucht and the interglacial of Quakenbrück . He was one of the organizers of several meetings of the Association of Northwest German Geologists.

Hartung made sure that the Benthullen meteorite , which he tracked down on a farmer's in 1949, came to the Oldenburg Museum.

The city of Oldenburg paid tribute to Hartung on October 17, 2000 by naming a street. In particular, his commitment to nature conservation was recognized, he was the district commissioner for nature conservation and land maintenance and headed the working group for nature conservation, land maintenance and environmental issues in the Oldenburg landscape, where he advocated, for example, the natural preservation of the Leybucht and raised bogs. Hartung also received the Lower Saxony Order of Merit (Cross of Merit 1st Class) and the Great City Seal of Oldenburg.

Fonts

  • Wangeroog. How it was, was and is . Oldenburg 1951

literature

  • Coldewey, Löhnert, obituary in news d. German geolog. Gesellschaft, Vol. 55, 1995, pp. 10-11
  • Obituary in the Oldenburger Jahrbuch, Volume 96, 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flora and age of the Carboniferous in the Western Balkans (Bulgaria) , Swiss beard 1935
  2. ^ Mellum, a bird paradise on the North Sea , Oldenburg 1950
  3. ↑ The Leybucht (East Frisia). Problems of their conservation as a nature reserve , New Archive for Lower Saxony, Volume 32, 1983, pp. 355–387
  4. ↑ To the knowledge of the interglacial of Quakenbrück and its further distribution in the district of Bersenbrück and Südoldenburg , magazine deutsche geolog. Ges., Vol. 105, 1954, pp. 95-105
  5. ↑ Council decides to name the “Wolfgang-Hartung-Straße” ( memento of the original from August 14, 2011 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.oldenburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Hartung, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1995
Place of death Oldenburg