Hans Oleak

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Hans Oleak (born August 2, 1930 in Bielitz , Upper Silesia ; † September 7, 2018 ) was a German astrophysicist with a research focus on extragalactic objects .

Live and act

Oleak, son of a family of craftsmen, attended both elementary and high school in his Upper Silesian hometown of Bielitz (now part of Bielsko-Biała). During the expulsions to the end of the Second World War he moved to Meiningen , where he attended the local high school took off in 1949 a high school. From 1950 to 1956 he studied physics with a focus on astrophysics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . He then worked at the Babelsberg observatory, which in 1969 became part of the Central Institute for Astrophysics (now the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam ). Hans Oleak received his doctorate in 1963 at the University of Jena ( gas dynamic processes in the fireball stage of the meteors , doctorate A), followed in 1973 by his doctorate B at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR with the thesis Treder's theory of gravity from the point of view of observational cosmology . In 1978 he received the license to teach astronomy from the University of Jena and applied for the chair without success. After initially working in the research of meteors , he was head of the extragalactic research department at the Potsdam Central Institute for Astrophysics from 1969 to 1990 . In 1981 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. From 1991 to 1995, Oleak held lectureships at the University of Potsdam , the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin .

Oleak became a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) in 1949 and exercised honorary functions in the party. Oleak was on 9 February 1984 as successor to Ernst Heyer Chairman of the District Committee Potsdam of the National Front of the GDR elected. On December 17, 1984 he was co-opted as a member of the main committee of the party at the 8th session of the main committee of the NDPD. At the 13th party congress of the NDPD in May 1987, he was re-elected as a member of the main committee.

After German reunification , he was a founding member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) in 1990 and of the Urania " Wilhelm Foerster " Potsdam eV educational association in 1991 , of which he later became chairman for many years. From 1993 to 1996 he was editor of the astronomical journal Die Sterne .

Throughout his life, Oleak imparted knowledge about the universe in the context of lectures, both to professional and lay audiences as well as in teacher training.

Oleak was married twice, the musician and producer Rainer Oleak and two daughters from the first marriage, and another daughter from the second marriage. Oleak died at the age of 88.

Awards

  • Honorary Prize of the City of Potsdam (2013, Category Nature and Science)
  • Wilhelm Foerster Prize of Urania Potsdam (2018)

Fonts

  • Gas-dynamic processes in the fireball stage of the meteors (Jena 1963, dissertation)
  • Treder's theory of gravity from the perspective of observational cosmology (Berlin 1973, dissertation B)

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR . 4th edition, Dietz Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 235.
  • Astrophysicist Hans Oleak turns 80 . In: Potsdam's latest news . August 2, 2010, page 8.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP): In memoriam of Prof. Hans Oleak . September 11, 2018, accessed September 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Short biography in the Märkische Volksstimme from February 10, 1984.
  3. ^ District committee of the National Front met in Potsdam. In: Märkische Volksstimme from February 10, 1984.
  4. ↑ National-Zeitung of December 18, 1984.
  5. ↑ National-Zeitung of May 10, 1987.
  6. ↑ It started with a toy telescope. In: Märkische Allgemeine . March 7, 2018.
  7. ^ Obituary notice in the Märkische Allgemeine from September 15, 2018 (accessed on September 15, 2018).
  8. ^ Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg: Wilhelm Foerster Prize for Hans Oleak . March 14, 2018, accessed September 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Oleak, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielitz
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2018