Abstract
Karl Fuchs (1932–2021) A world-leading seismologist and geophysicist, who drove international and interdisiplinary research, recalled by Joachim Ritter and Friedemann Wenzel. Prof. Dr Karl Fuchs was a world-leading geophysicist and honorary fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. During his extensive career he contributed to the present understanding of the lithosphere using seismology and tectonic stress field analysis. He initiated many international and interdisciplinary research programmes, served on international boards and published some 100 peer-reviewed papers. Fuchs was born on 21 January 1932 in Stettin, now Szczecin, Poland. After the Second World War his family fled to Germany where he went to school near Hamburg. He studied geophysics in Hamburg, London and Clausthal, where in 1957 he finished his studies and married his wife Cornelia (known to many as Corry). Fuchs accepted a position in the oil exploration industry and worked for Prakla Seismos GmbH (Hannover) as leader of geophysical field crews in the Amazon Basin in Brazil and the Sahara Desert in Algeria.
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