Günther Böhnecke

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Günther Karl Gustav Böhnecke (born September 5, 1896 in Berlin , † April 12, 1981 near Hamburg ) was a German oceanographer . His merits were not only in the field of oceanography, but also in promoting international oceanographic cooperation.

Life

Böhnecke studied geography and oceanography in Berlin and graduated in 1922 with a dissertation on the hydrography of the North Sea . After completing his studies, he worked at the Institute for Oceanography in Berlin and was part of the German Atlantic Expedition to the Atlantic from 1925 to 1927 . Over the next few years he took part in other expeditions of the Meteor (1929 to 1933: Iceland , Greenland , 1937: second Atlantic expedition ) and spent a total of five years at sea.

From 1935 to 1945 he headed the naval observatory in Wilhelmshaven . After the Second World War he was appointed President of the German Hydrographic Institute in Hamburg by the Allies and held this position between 1946 and 1960. In the 1950s, he worked on the reintegration of Germany into the international scientific community and headed various multinational bodies .

After his retirement he continued to work scientifically and organizationally and played a major role in the organization and implementation of the first expeditions of the second Meteor research ship in the 1960s. In addition, he held various advisory positions, including in the field of oceanography for the German Research Foundation .

In 1972 he was accepted as an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . The Böhnecke glacier in Antarctica is named in his honor .

Works

  • 1922: Salinity and currents in the North Sea. Mittler Verlag, Berlin
  • 1928: With the German Atlantic Expedition on the research ship 'Meteor'. Mittler Verlag, Berlin
  • 1932: Oceanographic Methods and Instruments. W. de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin (with Georg Wüst and Hans HF Meyer)
  • 1936: Temperature, salinity and density on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean: the observation material and its processing. W. de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin [u. a.]
  • 1936: The oceanographic work of the survey vessel "Meteor" in Denmarkstrasse and Irmingersee during the fishery protection trips in 1929, 1930, 1933 and 1935. Mittler Verlag, Berlin (with Albert Defant and Hermann Wattenberg)
  • 1956: Temporal Issues in Oceanography. West German publishing house, Cologne
  • 1959: The expeditions of FFS “Anton Dohrn” and VFS “Gauss” in the International Geophysical Year 1957/1958: collective reports. German Hydrographic Institute, Hamburg (as editor with Adolf Bückmann and others)
  • 1962: Memorandum on the State of Marine Research. F. Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 182 (English).
  2. ↑ HAMBURGER panorama. ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Hamburger Abendblatt, archive of issue no.225 from September 27, 1972, page 4
personal data
SURNAME Böhnecke, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhnecke, Günther Karl Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oceanographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1981
Place of death Hamburg