Wolfgang Schott

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Wolfgang Schott (born February 1, 1905 in Altona , † 1989 ) was a German geologist and oceanographer.

Schott was the son of the oceanographer Gerhard Schott . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Göttingen . From 1930 to 1934 he was an assistant at the Mineralogical-Geological Institute of the University of Rostock , from 1934 to 1939 first assistant, later geologist at the Prussian Geological State Institute and then the Reich Office for Soil Research in Berlin . He was involved in deep-sea expeditions in the 1930s and thereafter, during which he researched sedimentation processes, among other things. Since 1940 he was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen .

After the Second World War he was at the Federal Institute for Soil Research in Hanover. From 1958 until his retirement in 1972 he was director there. He was also an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen from 1965 to 1972.

He dealt in particular with the Mesozoic of Lower Saxony.

Honors

Fonts

  • with August Kumm, Leonhard Riedel The Mesozoic in Lower Saxony , Geology and Deposits of Lower Saxony, Volume 2, Trias-Jura-Kreide , Oldenburg, G. Stalling 1941, Trias and Lias , Stalling 1941, Obere Kreide , Bremen-Dorn 1942, The Dogger (Middle and Brown Jura) , Bremen-Dorn 1952
  • with August Kumm, Leonhard Riedel, Kurt Brüning Geology and Deposits of Lower Saxony , publications of the Economic Society for the Study of Lower Saxony, Provincial Institute for Regional Planning, Regional and Folklore of Lower Saxony, Göttingen, Series A, Bremen, Dorn 1941
  • Paleogeographical investigations on the Upper Brown and Lower White Jura of northwest Germany , Prussian treatises. Geolog. State Institute, New Series, Volume 133, 1930
  • with Hans-Joachim Martini Paleogeographical Atlas of the Lower Cretaceous of Northwest Germany with an overview of northern Central Europe , 2 volumes, Hanover, State Office for Soil Research 1967
  • International map of natural gas fields in Europe (1: 2.5 million), Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Committee on Gas), Geneva 1976

About oceanography:

  • The recent past of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean on the basis of investigations by the Meteor Expedition , meeting reports and treatises of the Natural Research Society in Rostock, Third Volume, Volume 4, pp. 48–58. Rostock, 1934.
  • Foraminifera fauna and stratigraphy of deep sea sediments in the North Atlantic Ocean , Reports of the Swedish Deep Sea Expedition 1947–1948, Volume 7, Göteborg 1966 and Geologische Rundschau
  • Stratigraphy of recent deep sea sediments due to the foraminifera fauna , Geologische Rundschau, Volume 29, 1938, pp. 330–338 (reprinted in English translation in Wolf-Christian Dullo (Ed.) Milestones in Geosciences. Selected Benchmark Papers published in the Journal Geologische Rundschau , Springer Verlag 2003)
  • On the sequence of deposits in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean , Göteborg 1952
  • Early German oceanographic institutions, expeditions, and oceanographers , Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut 1987
  • The voyages of the research vessel Valdivia 1971–1978: geoscientific results , Stuttgart, Schweizerbart 1980 (with Harald Bäcker)

literature

  • Geological Yearbook, Mitteilungen, 1990, Issue 7, p. 77

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Lenz:  Schott, Gerhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 493 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 204.
  3. ↑ Geologist list of the PGLA with photo
personal data
SURNAME Schott, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH 1989