Albert Cappel

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Albert Cappel (born November 18, 1921 in Pfeddersheim ; † July 21, 2018 ) was a German graduate meteorologist . He was one of the first team of climatologists to make weather forecasts live on German television .

Act

From 1959 Albert Cappel worked for the German Weather Service in Offenbach am Main and temporarily in the branch in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . From 1981 until his retirement in 1984 he was head of the Frankfurt Meteorological Office in the Offenbach headquarters of the German Meteorological Service.

With the start of broadcasting on ZDF and the first broadcast of the Today news, the weather was presented by a presenter for the first time on German television. Cappel was part of the team for the Today program right from the start and explained the weather to viewers until 1988.

Cappel published numerous scientific works, including several basic climatological and reference works.

Works (selection)

  • Together with Peter Emmrich: Two weather catastrophes in 1972. The Lower Saxony hurricane and the thunderstorm in Stuttgart = reports of the German Weather Service 135. German Weather Service, Offenbach am Main 1975. Without ISBN.
  • Together with Margret Kalb: The climate of Hamburg. Analysis for the purposes of applied climatology with data catalog = reports of the German Weather Service; 141. German Weather Service, Offenbach am Main 1976. Without ISBN.
  • Together with Manfred Kurz: Documentation on the large-scale weather sequence during the MESOKLIP experiment in September 1979 . In: Franz Fiedler and Thomas Prenosil: The MESOKLIP experiment. Mesoscale climate program in the Upper Rhine Valley = Scientific reports from the Meteorological Institute of the University of Karlsruhe 1. Meteorological Institute of the University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 1980. Without ISBN.
  • Together with Margret Kalb and Helmut Schmidt: Climatological and statistical bases as explanations for climate processing . German Weather Service, Offenbach am Main
    • 1st edition: 1983. Without ISBN.
    • 2nd edition: 1988. Without ISBN.
  • Together with Gerhard Kluge, Margret Kalb and Helmut Schmidt: The climate of selected places in the Federal Republic of Germany = reports of the German Weather Service 213. German Weather Service, Offenbach am Main 2000. ISBN 978-3-88148-363-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: Albert Cappel. In: rheinpfalz.de . August 14, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Obituary notice for Albert Cappel. In: trauer.op-online.de. July 21, 2018, accessed August 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Steffen Müller: Mourning the weather pioneer. In: Offenbach-Post . From August 4, 2018, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Cappel, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfeddersheim
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2018