Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs

Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (born Rohlfs ; born August 11, 1912 in Coburg ; † March 9, 1954 in Sonneberg ) was a German astronomer .

Life

Eva Rohlfs grew up in the former Thuringian residence town of Coburg. After graduating from high school , she studied in Würzburg , Munich and Kiel from 1931 to 1933 . After a long break, she resumed her studies at the University of Göttingen in 1942 during the Second World War . In 1945 she went to the Sonneberg observatory as a research assistant , from where not only the starry sky can be observed , but also the Coburg Fortress, which is only 25 kilometers away .

As assistant to Cuno Hoffmeister , who was director of the observatory and also professor in Jena , she received her doctorate in 1951 at the Friedrich Schiller University in the field of astrophysics . In 1952 she married Paul Ahnert , who also worked as an astronomer in Sonneberg. The success of her academic work and her personal happiness were marred by the consolidation of the German division. The hometown of Coburg, which is within sight of Sonneberg, had become inaccessible to them in the early 1950s. Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs died at the age of 42 as a result of an unfortunate birth.

Fonts

• Radiation pressure, Poynting-Robertson effect and interstellar matter . Communication from the Sonneberg Observatory 43. 1953.
• Preliminary communication on experiments to detect meteoritic dust . Communication from the Sonneberg observatory 45th 1954.
• On the structure of the origin of the Perseidenstrom (= publication by the Sonneberg observatory . Volume 2). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1952, DNB 450034607 pp. 5-38.

literature

• C. Hoffmeister: Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs. In: The Stars . Issue 5/6, year 1954, pp. 103-105.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by E. (Ahnert-) Rohlfs in the Astrophysics Data System