Gotthard Fliegel

Gotthard Fliegel (28 December 1873 – 22 June 1947) was a German geographer. His work was mostly on western Germany, especially the Lower Rhine basin. He was born in Dammer in Lower Silesia and attended the Maria-Magdalenen school in Wrocław. He then studied at the University of Wrocław, where he gained a Ph.D. after his 1898 dissertation on the spread of marine Pennsylvanian rocks in South and East Asia. Later that year, he moved to the Geological-Palaeontological Institute in Bonn, where he remained until 1903 as an assistant to Clemens Schlüter. He then became a geologist with the Prussian Geological Institute in Berlin and in 1923 became a department director. In 1919 he became associate professor at the Agricultural University of Berlin. The rise of the Nazis led to his retirement in 1934. [cite web | title =Gotthard Fliegel | work =Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (Journal of the German Society for Geography)| publisher =Schweizerbart | url =http://www.schweizerbart.de/pubs/journals/0012-0189/paper/102/134 | author=Stille, Hans| language = German | date = 1950| accessdate = 2008-05-02| pages = pp. 134–140]

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* [http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/SET=3/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1004&SRT=YOP&TRM=fliegel%2C+gotthard Works in the catalogue of the German National Library]