Walter Georg Kühne

Walter Georg Kühne ( born February 26, 1911 in Berlin, † 16 March 1991) was a German vertebrate paleontologist, known for research on Mesozoic mammals.

In the late 1930s and during the Second World War he was in exile from the Nazis in the UK. He was later a professor at the Free University of Berlin, where in 1958 he founded the Institute of Paleontology.

Kuehne was a pioneer in the field of Mesozoic mammals that he sought especially in lignite deposits.

He was the discoverer and describer of Morganucodon by finds in Wales in the 1940s and Oligokyphus ( Tritylodontidae ) of any Fund in 1939 in southern England. In his honor the species is named earlier mammals Kuehneotheria. In 1946 he described according to findings in southwest England, the gliding lizard from the Triassic Kuehneosaurus.

He was in 1959 the first indications of the rich Jurassic mammal finding place in Guimarota, then his pupil Bernard cancer from 1973 extensively explored.