Günther Falckenberg

Günther Falckenberg (born July 4, 1879 in Lagardesmühlen, today Kostrzyn -Kłośnica, † July 19, 1963 in Rostock ) was a German physicist. From 1946 he headed the state weather service for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Life

Günther Falckenberg was the son of the factory and landowner Albert Falckenberg and his wife Marie, née Vockeroth. He graduated from high school in Perleberg in 1901 and studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg until 1902 . During this time he worked on the side in the Borsig machine factory . In 1902 he enrolled in the subjects of mathematics, chemistry and physics at the University of Zurich . Before he finished his studies in 1906, he studied physics again in Berlin, among others with Max Planck .

From 1906 to 1910 Falckenberg was a lecture assistant at the Physics Institute at the University of Greifswald . He then worked briefly in industry before moving to the Physics Institute at the University of Rostock . Here he worked as a volunteer assistant until 1912, then assistant. From 1914 to 1918, Günther Falckenberg served as a war volunteer as a specialist in wireless telegraphy in the Navy. After the end of the First World War, he became a private lecturer in 1919 and a senior assistant at Rostock University in 1920. In 1922 he was given the management of the Friedrichshöhe University Air Station , and he also had a teaching position in geophysics . In 1924 he received a professorship for applied physics. With the end of the Second World War and the closure of the air station, Falckenberg became head of the state weather station and in 1946 head of the state weather service for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Until 1951 he was director of the Warnemünde Meteorological Observatory , which later had its seat in Kühlungsborn . He then headed a meteorological department at the Meteorological Service of the GDR until his retirement in 1953.

In 2010 a street in the Rostock district of Südstadt was named after him.

Web links

• Literature about Günther Falckenberg in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Günther Falckenberg in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium