August Schmauß

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August Schmauß (born November 26, 1877 in Munich ; † October 10, 1954 there ) was a German physicist , meteorologist and climatologist .

Life

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1896 , August Schmauß studied mathematics and physics in his hometown. In 1900 he received his doctorate with the dissertation on anomalous electromagnetic rotational inversion . In the spring of 1906 he became 1st adjunct of the Bavarian Meteorological Central Station. In 1908 he completed his habilitation. In 1910 he took over as the successor to Fritz Erk (1857-1919) the management of the Central Station, which was called Bayerische Landeswetterwarte from 1917 and also continued Erk's lectures. He held this position until 1948.

After rejecting an offer to Berlin, he became a full professor in the physics section of the University of Munich in 1922 . This made meteorology eligible for promotion. At the same time he was appointed head of the Institute for Meteorology and Climatology set up at the Forest Research Institute, whose application-oriented "Meteorological Department" was attached to the state weather station. In 1935 the state weather station was added to the Luftamt area in Berlin and Schmauß was given an independent meteorological institute to compensate for this at the Philosophical Faculty II.

From 1923 to 1945 Schmauß was chairman of the German Meteorological Society. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1932 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1948 he retired.

research

Schmauß had introduced the term singularity in meteorology in the 1920s . Since then, research into the regularities of the annual weather has been called singularity research.

Honors

  • Awarded the title of Privy Councilor
  • August-Schmauß-Strasse in Oberschleißheim (Munich) was named after him posthumously. It is also the address of the German Weather Office.

plant

  • Meteorology and Agriculture. Parey, Berlin 1912. (2nd edition. 1925)
  • The interdiural variability of the temperature on the Zugspitze. J. Springer, Berlin 1936.
  • Calendar-based links to daily temperature fluctuations. Bayer. Akad. D. Sciences, Munich 1941.
  • The war as a meteorological education. In: Journal of Applied Meteorology. 1940.
  • Distinctive points in the annual course of the air pressure on the Zugspitze. Bayer. Akad. D. Sciences, Munich 1943.
  • Meteorology in the field. In: Journal of Applied Meteorology. 1943.

literature

  • M. Rodewald: The science of the weather. In: The time. No. 42, October 21, 1954, p. 14.
  • Joachim Küttner: On the death of August Schmauß. In: Archives for Meteorology, Geophysics and Bioclimatology. Series A, Volume 8, Issue 1-2, 1955, pp. 131-133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1859/96
  2. ↑ Member entry by August Schmauß (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 20, 2016.
  3. ^ Member entry by August Schmauß at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 20, 2016.
  4. ^ Schmauss: Singularities in the annual weather pattern in Munich. In: German Meteorological Yearbook. Munich 1928.
personal data
SURNAME Schmauß, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmauss, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist, climatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1954
Place of death Munich