Anderle, Hans-Jürgen

Geologist, Chairman of the Nassau Society for Natural History

Born: 23.01.1939 in Reichenberg/Sudetenland (today Liberec/Czech Republic)

died: 22.01.2012 in Wiesbaden

After the end of the war, Anderle had to leave the Sudetenland as a German and moved to Zittau (Saxony) with his family. He moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1951. He studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Frankfurt am Main until 1966. His diploma thesis "Geological investigations (Lower Devonian) in the Loreley area (TK 25 sheet 5812 St. Goarshausen)" was an early indication of his later professional career as a recognized expert in the geology of the Taunus.

He joined the former Hessian State Office for Soil Research (HLfB) in 1967 and retired as Director of Geology in 2004. He initially worked in the two departments of engineering geology and rocks and soils, focusing on near-surface raw materials in the Rhine. Slate Mountains. From the mid-1980s, he worked in the Geological Survey Department. Even after the merger of the HLfB with the former Hessian State Institute for the Environment (HLfU) in January 2000 to form the Hessian State Office for the Environment and Geology (HLUG), since 2016 the Hessian State Office for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology (HLNUG ), the Taunus remained the focus of his work.

As a field geologist and specialist for the Taunus, he not only published around 105 scientific articles on the strata inventory and tectonics of the Taunus in specialist journals, but also produced several official geological maps; he was also the author of many geological and tectonic articles in various commentaries on these maps.

He was also involved in the "Stratigraphy of Germany Part VIII - Devonian" and "Stratigraphy of Germany Part IX - Upper Rhine Graben and Neighboring Tertiary Areas" as well as the book "Geology of Hesse" published in 2013. Due to his outstanding knowledge of Taunus geology, he was a long-standing member of the "German Stratigraphic Commission for Devonian Stratigraphy" and a corresponding member of the Subcommission for Ordovician and Silurian. Unfortunately, his planned volume "Taunus" from the Geological Guide collection had to remain unfinished.

From 1996 until his death, A. was 1st chairman of the Nassauischer Verein für Naturkunde. In 2012 he was (posthumously) awarded honorary membership. He was the initiator of the "Naturkundetag" in the fall and the "KurierNatur" excursions, which have been organized jointly with the Wiesbadener Kurier since 2006. He was also responsible for the "Streifzüge durch die Natur von Wiesbaden und Umgebung", published in 2004.

Because the natural history collections of the Wiesbaden Museum and the Nassau Natural History Society were a single entity until the museum was transferred to the state of Hesse in 1973, and because the collaboration has remained very close to this day, he opposed the plans of the then director to reduce the former three-division museum essentially to the art section. Supported by a citizens' initiative, his efforts were rewarded in 1999.

As he was also very committed to environmental policy, he campaigned for the preservation of creation in numerous articles. In addition, Anderle was a very good connoisseur of the Wiesbaden jazz scene and music critic.