Geomagnetic Institute Potsdam

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The Geomagnetic Institute Potsdam was an academy institute founded in 1888 on Telegrafenberg in the south-west of Potsdam . It existed until 1991 and today forms the geomagnetics section in the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam .

The institute was built from 1888 to 1893 and received an observatory for research into geomagnetism , to which a meteorological observatory was also attached. Together with the observatories built here earlier, it formed a kind of science park with a uniform architecture. These included the astrophysical observatory built in 1876 and the facilities founded in 1889 for geodetic measurements ( Geodetic Institute Potsdam with geodetic-astronomical observatories and the Helmert Tower ).

On the occasion of the academy's reform in 1969 in the GDR , the Geomagnetic and Geodetic Institute were merged with three other facilities in Jena and East Berlin to form the Central Institute for Earth Physics (ZIPE). Today they are organizationally assigned to the GFZ, which was founded in 1992 and which includes other geophysical research groups.

The geomagnetic area in the GFZ forms section 2.3, Earth's magnetic field . The main building of the former Geomagnetic Institute is the Süringhaus , which also houses parts of the meteorology (the latter, however, is assigned to the German Weather Service ). There is close cooperation with other institutes of the Albert Einstein Science Park based at Telegrafenberg, including the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research .

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