Günther Sager

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Günther Sager (born June 4, 1923 in Rostock ; † December 27, 1991 ) was a German oceanographer.

In 1942, Sager passed his matriculation examination at the secondary school in Rostock and began studying civil engineering at the TH Stuttgart. The following year he was drafted into military service and began studying mathematics and physics at the University of Rostock in 1946, which he completed in 1950 with the state examination for higher teaching qualifications. At the University of Leipzig he received his doctorate in 1961. rer. nat. and completed his habilitation in 1964. During this time he had teaching assignments in Greifswald and Warnemünde.

From 1952 he conducted marine research in the Baltic Sea Observatory of the Seehydrographischen Dienst and since 1958 in the Warnemünde Institute for Oceanography, initially on problems of water level and ice forecast. Then he was fascinated by the tides of the sea. For more than ten years he then dealt with questions of marine acoustics and then with problems of biometrics, especially the parameterization of empirical growth curves. After a serious illness, he went into early retirement in 1987. He wrote around 450 scientific and popular science publications, including eight books and atlases.

Publications

  • Tide forecasts and tide calculators ; 1955 (with co-workers of Wilhelm Oehmisch, Otto Miehlke )
  • Tides and shipping ; 1959
  • Ebb and flow ; 1960
  • Force of nature by the sea 1972
  • Man and Tides 1987
  • Ships, battles and tides ; 1990

literature

  • Wolfgang Matthäus, Dieter Lange: In memoriam GÜNTHER SAGER ; In: Contributions to Oceanography 63, 1992; Pp. 137, 138

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personal data
SURNAME Sager, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oceanographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1991