Alfred Mäde
Alfred Mäde (born June 16, 1910 in Borsdorf near Leipzig; † October 5, 1988 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German agricultural scientist and meteorologist at the University of Halle-Wittenberg .
Live and act
Mäde studied natural sciences at the Universities of Leipzig and Munich and received her doctorate in Leipzig in 1934 with a climatological topic for Dr. phil. From 1935 to 1941 Mäde worked in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Müncheberg (Mark) at the meteorological station attached there with agro-meteorological issues, after which he worked in meteorological consulting. After 1945 he set up the regional weather service in Saxony-Anhalt , in April 1946 he was appointed director of the first university agrometeorological institute at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, habilitated in 1947 and then appointed professor. He headed the institute until his retirement in 1975.
Research engagements
Mäde practically completely rebuilt the institute, equipped it with the necessary equipment and determinedly continued the agro-meteorological research he had begun in the 1930s. From his more than 80 publications the following are independent writings: Resistance-electrical temperature measurements in a microclimatic base station, 1938; The agricultural meteorology in plant breeding , 1942; About the method of meteorological terrain measurement, 1956; Methodical preliminary investigations for an agricultural meteorology of the GDR, 1957 and the meteorological yield analysis . Since 1958 Mäde has published the “Zeitschrift für Angewandte Meteorologie”, in it and in botanical and agricultural He has published numerous articles in magazines. From 1958 to 1962 Mäde was dean of the agricultural faculty and from 1963 to 1965 rector of the University of Halle. He was a member of the Society for Meteorology of the GDR, represented the specialist department of agricultural meteorology, which he chaired for years.
Publications (selection)
- A contribution to the symmetry of air pressure curves in the winter of 1928/29. Diss. Philosopher. Fac. Of the Univ. Leipzig, 1934: In: Treatises of the Prussian Meteorological Institute, Berlin: J. Springer, Vol. 10, 1935, No. 6, 24 pp.
- Resistance electrical temperature measurements in a Jerusalem artichoke stand. Knowledge Treatises of the Reich Office for Weather Service, Berlin: Springer, 1936, 23 pp.
- Resistive electrical temperature observations at a microclimatic base station. Berlin: Springer, 1938, 42 pp.
- Agrometeorology in Plant Breeding, 1942, 47 pp.
- About the method of meteorological terrain measurement, Leipzig; Hirzel, 1956, in DAL, session reports, vol. 5, no.5, 24 pp.
- Methodological preliminary studies for an agricultural climatology of the GDR, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1958. 38 pp.
- Contributions to applied meteorology: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of A. Mäde, Berlin: Akad.-Verlag, 1970, 206 pp.
honors and awards
Mäde received the Dr. hc from the University of Bratislava and in 1960 the Bronze Order of the Patriotic Merit (VVO).
literature
- Gerber, Theophil: Personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine, 4th exp. Ed., 2014, NORA-Verlag Berlin, Vol. 2, pp. 478/479.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Girl, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural meteorologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 1988 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |