Hans Robert Scultetus

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Hans Robert Scultetus (born March 20, 1904 in Halle (Saale) , † March 17, 1976 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) was a German meteorologist .

Life

In 1930 Scultetus received his doctorate in meteorology from the University of Berlin. phil. PhD ( The observations of the ground temperatures in the observation network of the Prussian Meteorological Institute during the years 1912 to 1927 ). In the 1930s he headed the meteorology department at the SS-Ahnenerbe , where he wanted to use world ice theory (which Heinrich Himmler attached) for long-term weather forecasts.

At the beginning of the Second World War he no longer played a role in the Ahnenerbe and was a meteorologist in the Air Force , although many colleagues there met him with suspicion because of his past. At the Ahnenerbe, meteorologists were recruited again from 1942 onwards, but only those with a conventional professional orientation. Michael Kater sees this as a sign of the pragmatic handling of the research orientation of the SS, which ultimately preferred the orientation towards the importance of war.

Within the SS he rose to the position of Sturmbannführer in 1943. In 1945 he turned to Himmler to offer him long-term weather forecasts. Scultetus also turned to conventional research again after the war. In the 1950s he worked for the weather office in Essen, the maritime weather office in Hamburg and the research institute for agriculture in Braunschweig. He is entered in Kürschner's scholars' calendar in 1976 as the head of the agricultural meteorological research center of the German Weather Service in Braunschweig.

Fonts

  • Climatology. The Geographical Seminar , Practical Working Methods in Climatology, Georg Westermann 1969.

literature

  • Michael Kater : The "Ahnenerbe" of the SS 1935–1945. A contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich , Oldenbourg Munich 2006, 4th edition, ISBN 978-3-486-57950-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Freddy Litten, Astronomie in Bayern 1914–1945, F. Steiner 1992, register
  2. ↑ Publications of the Prussian Meteorological Institute, Abhandlungen, Volume IX, No. 5, Springer 1930
  3. ↑ Eric Kurlander: Hitler's Monsters. A Supernatural History of the Third Reich . Yale University Press, New Haven 2017, pp. 153-154 .
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 575.
personal data
SURNAME Scultetus, Hans Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1976
Place of death Buchholz in the north heath