Short biography and publications by and about Horst Saalfeld

Short biography

1920	born in Königsberg
1939	Maturity certificate in Marburg
1939-1945	Labor and military service, prisoner of war
1945-1950	Studies and doctorate in Marburg
1950	Doctorate with Fritz Laves and Heinz Jagodzinski in Marburg
1951	Research assistant at the University of Marburg
1952-1960	Research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Silicate Research in Würzburg, Germany
1959	Habilitation in Würzburg, private lecturer in Würzburg
1960-1963	Professor of Structural Research at Saarland University
1963-1985	Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Hamburg
1968-1969	Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg
1972-1974	Chairman of the German Mineralogical Society
1974?-1993	Treasurer of the German Mineralogical Society
1982-?	Editor at the New Yearbook for Mineralogy
1984	Local Chairman des Kongresses der International Union of Christallography in Hamburg
1985-2005	Member of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences, Hamburg
1988-1994	Vice President of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences, Hamburg
1995	Honorary member of the German Mineralogical Society
2004-2022	Senior member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
2022	died 21 March 2022