Friedrich von Huene, born Friedrich Richard von Hoinigen, (22 March 1875 – 4 April 1969) was a German paleontologist who renamed more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe. He also made key contributions about various Permo-Carboniferous limbed vertebrates.
Karl Beurlen (17 April 1901 – 27 December 1985) was a German paleontologist.Beurlen was born in Aalen. He attended University of Tübingen. He completed a PhD in 1923.Beurlen was a proponent of orthogenesis and saltational evolution. He used the term metakinesis (coined by Otto Jaekel) to describe sudden changes of development in organisms. He also invented the term palingenesis as a mechanism for his orthogenetic theory of evolution.He was an assistant of Edwin Hennig.He was a proponent of National Socialist ideology and wrote about the Aryan race.He was director of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München.
Karl Erich Andrée (10 March 1880, in Münder am Deister – 18 August 1959, in Göttingen) was a German geologist and paleontologist.
He studied chemistry at the Technical University of Hannover and mineralogy, geology, paleontology and zoology at the University of Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in 1904. At Göttingen, he was encouraged by Adolf von Koenen to write his dissertation-thesis on the geology of Iburg. Later on, he worked as an assistant at the Mineralogical-Geological Institute of the Bergakademie in Clausthal (1906–08) and at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (1908–10).
In 1910 he obtained his habilitation from the University of Marburg, and five years later, became an associate professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Königsberg. In 1921 he attained a full professorship, and in 1930/31 he served as university rector. At Königsberg, he was also director at the Geological-Paleontological Institute and in charge of the amber collections. From 1946 onward, he taught classes on geology at the University of Göttingen. He was the author of over 125 scientific papers.
Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (25 September 1839 – 5 January 1904) was a German palaeontologist best known for his Handbuch der Palaeontologie (1876–1880).