Fritz Albrecht (observer)

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Fritz Heinrich Wilhelm Albrecht (born September 23, 1896 in Guben ; † 1965 ) was a German observator .

Life

He was the son of Guben's Chief Postal Secretary Heinrich Albrecht and his wife Helene nee Becker. After attending grammar school in Cottbus , he volunteered for the Serious World War in 1915. In 1917 he became a laboratory employee at Siemens & Halke, Wernerwerk and in 1918 began to study at the Technical College and University in Berlin. From 1921 to 1923 he worked for AEG . In 1923 he received his doctorate in Berlin to Dr. phil. Then it worked as a research assistant.

In 1929 Fritz Albrecht was appointed observer at the Meteorological Observatory in Potsdam, where he worked as a member of the Meteorological Society from then on. He published several times on meteorological topics. He was particularly active in the field of radiation research.

In 1935 he was appointed government councilor and taken over into the Reich Weather Service.

After the end of the Second World War he went to Munich, where he worked at the Institute for General and Applied Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Munich.

Works (selection)

  • Investigations into the heat balance of the earth's surface in different climatic areas , Berlin, 1940.
  • (with Paul Brosse): Results from Dr. Haude's observations of radiation and the heat balance of the earth's surface at the two camps at Ikengüng and at Edsen-Gol, 1931–32 , 1941.
  • Thermal convection in the free atmosphere and its significance for the heat exchange between the surface of the earth and the air , Berlin, 1942.
  • The intensity of solar + sky radiation (global radiation) on the surface in different spectral areas (= research and experience reports of the Reich Weather Service. Series A, Vol. 18), German Reich Reich Office for Weather Service, 1943.
  • Annual maps of the heat and water balance of the oceans , Offenbach, 1960.
  • The annual cycle of the components of the heat and water balance of the oceans , Offenbach, 1961.
  • Investigations of the heat and water balance of the southern continents , 1965.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Minerva, Volume 31, Issue 1, Part 1, 1933, p. 156.