Bruno Eckardt

Bruno Alfred Richard Eckardt (born June 2, 1892 in Dillenburg , † 1987 in Berlin ) was a German meteorologist . Eckardt was a son of the surveyor Heinrich Eckardt and his second wife Anna Ender. Since the early 1920s he researched the Eckardt family from Döllstädt. He communicated the results to many members of the Eckardt family through his "Heimatbote".

Childhood and school days

Eckardt's father was transferred more often as a Prussian civil servant depending on the tasks at hand. Therefore the family moved several times: from Dillenburg to Limburg an der Lahn, then in 1895 to Witzenhausen. Bruno attended elementary school there from 1898 and in 1902 attended the municipal secondary school. In 1904 the father was transferred to Düren in the Rhineland and the family moved again. Bruno now attended the Reform Realgymnasium. At that time he was already very interested in natural sciences and had set up a small laboratory with a friend from school. He observed the weather and climate, launched small weather balloons and was even able to publish his results in the local newspapers. He also undertook explorations of the surrounding area.

First World War

After graduating from high school in 1914, he studied natural sciences at the Technical University of Aachen and later in Frankfurt am Main. In November 1914 he was called up for military service and had to interrupt his studies. In February 1915, after completing his military training and a combat mission, he was seconded to the military weather service under Hugo Hergesell .

After the war, Bruno continued to study at the Universities of Hamburg and Marburg, and now specialized in meteorology, meteorology and geophysics.

career

Bruno Eckardt wrote his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Alfred Wegener . On June 3, 1922, Eckardt was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. doctorate and found a job at the public weather service at the Thuringian State Agencies in Ilmenau. When Bruno now lived and worked closer to the homeland of his ancestors, he devoted a large part of his free time to genealogy. In 1924 he married Charlotte Baschien, with whom he had two sons. His first son Volkmar died in Austria in May 1945 at the age of only 18. In 1925 he came to the Deutsche Seewarte in Hanover. From 1930 he was head of the aviation weather station and the public weather service in Hanover.

In 1927 he was seconded to the Norderney weather station, and in 1929 he went on a research trip to West Africa. He reports on this trip in the Heimatbote on page 32. From 1934 to 1938 he was head of the air base weather station in Gotha. In 1936 he was appointed a councilor by the Ministry of Aviation. In 1938 he was weather service manager at Dresden-Klotzsche Airport. In 1940 he was seconded to the Köthen air base, in 1941 to the radiosonde station in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, and in 1943 to the Reich Office for Weather Service in Berlin. He then worked in Pförten in Lusatia, Meerane in Saxony and finally in Bohemia. There he was taken prisoner by the United States at the end of the war and returned to his mother in Halle in June 1945. On October 15, 1945 he was appointed director of the Saxon state weather station in Dresden. In 1949 Bruno Eckardt moved to West Berlin and was retired there in 1956.

Publications (selection)

• Results of the pilot balloon ascents from Hamburg-Grossborstel: (Dragon station of the German sea observatory). Executed in the years 1915 to 1917 and vectorially calculated. (Dissertation) University of Hamburg, 1922.
• with Paul Lühe: Results of high-altitude wind measurements on the East Atlantic Ocean along the West African coast in January and February 1929. X. Research trip of the Deutsche Seewarte. Hanseatic. Verl.-Anst., Hamburg 1932.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dr. Eckardt, Bruno: Heimatbote No. 29 . 1967, p. 568 ff .
2. ↑ Eckardt, Bruno Alfred Richard. In: JC Poggendorff's biographical-literary concise dictionary for mathematics, astronomy, physics with geophysics, chemistry, crystallography and related fields of knowledge. Volume 6, part 1, Berlin 1936.
3. ↑ Eckardt, Bruno. In: Handbook of German Science. Volume 2. Koetschau, Berlin 1949.