Franz Baur

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Franz Baur (born February 14, 1887 in Munich , † November 20, 1977 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a German meteorologist . He is considered the founder of long-term weather forecast.

Life

Baur, whose father was a colonel, attended grammar school in Munich. He then joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps . He then attended the artillery and engineering school. During the First World War he was promoted to captain. After the end of the war, Baur attended the universities of Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau . There he studied physics, mathematics, geography and meteorology. In 1921 he graduated as Dr. phil. nat. While still a student he became head of the medical and meteorological observatory in St. Blasien . He worked there until 1926. In 1929 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Frankfurt am Main and in 1930 honorary professor.

During the National Socialist rule he was head of the State Research Center for Long-Term Weather Forecasts in Frankfurt am Main until 1935 ; then until 1945 director of the research institute for long-term weather forecast at the Reich Weather Service in Bad Homburg. During this time, he had to make weather forecasts for specific combat areas, the summer weather and the grain harvest. These tasks meant that after the end of the war he initially received no research funding. It was not until 1951 that he carried out a research assignment from the Federal Ministry of Food.

Baur was a multiple award-winning member of international scientific organizations. He developed the basics for large-scale meteorology, long-term weather forecasts and medical climatology . Up until old age he occupied himself with the comparative evaluation of statistical material about the weather of past years. Franz Baur died of sudden heart failure. He is buried in the forest cemetery in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .

Publications (selection)

  • Mathematical geography , 1905
  • Basis of a quarterly temperature forecast of the seasons for Germany , 1926
  • Correlation calculation , 1928
  • Introduction to large-scale weather research , 1937
  • Exemplary examples of major European weather conditions , 1947
  • Introduction to large-scale meteorology , 1948

literature

  • International Biographical Archive - current people
  • Andreas Frey: Caught cold: the meteorologist Franz Baur made a momentous weather forecast for Hitler's Wehrmacht in the winter of 70 years ago. A reminder for the 125th birthday , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, February 12, 2012, page 62

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Free University of Berlin. Institute for Meteorology: Meteorological treatises: basic material, volume 12, issues 9-12, 1977, p. 168, Anriß .
personal data
SURNAME Baur, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1977
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe