Hans Steinhagen

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Hans-Egon Steinhagen (born December 21, 1939 in Neubrandenburg ; † March 20, 2013 in Lindenberg ) was a German engineer and book author .

Life

Steinhagen studied high frequency technology and microwave technology at the Technical University of Ilmenau from 1958 to 1964 . He then became an employee at the Lindenberg Aerological Observatory . In 1967 he moved to the research area of VEB Electronic Calculating Machines (from 1969 Kombinat Robotron ) in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz ), where he subsequently held various management functions. From 1971 to 1974 he held a teaching position for peripheral information processing at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1974 Steinhagen received his doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden with a dissertation on Methodical Basics and Algorithms for the Design Practice of Object Descriptions of Recognizing Systems . He then returned to the Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory in 1975 and took over the management of the “Electronic Systems for Aerological Applications” department. In 1991 he became an employee and in 1994 head of the "Ground-based remote sensing" department.

After retiring for old age in 2004, he devoted himself to private studies in the history of science . His main focus was on the history of the Lindenberg observatory and the biographies of important scientists who have worked here ( Richard Assmann , Arthur Berson , Hugo Hergesell , Max Robitzsch and others) as well as the history of the region .

Hans Steinhagen was the author of over 40 scientific journal articles and several patents . He published four books. In 2007 he received the Paulus Prize of the German Meteorological Society for the best scientific-historical work in meteorology in the past three years in German-speaking countries for his book Der Wettermann - Richard Assmann's life and work .

Works

  • Object Recognition - Introduction to the mathematical methods of character recognition . Verlag Technik, Berlin 1976 (with Siegfried Fuchs).
  • Biographies of the heads of the Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory from 1905 to 2005 . German Weather Service, Offenbach / Main 2005, ISBN 3-88148-404-3 .
  • The weather man - life and work of Richard Assmann . Findling, Neuenhagen 2005, ISBN 3-933603-33-1 .
  • Max Robitzsch - polar researcher and meteorologist . VerlagsService OderSpree, Jacobsdorf / Mark 2008, ISBN 978-3-939960-06-5 .
  • Lindenberg sky hunters - miniatures around the observatory . Arkana-Verlag, Göttingen 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Paulus Prize on the website of the German Meteorological Society