Harald Koschmieder

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Harald Koschmieder (born September 19, 1897 in Liegnitz , † August 10, 1966 in Darmstadt ) was a German meteorologist .

Life

Koschmieder's father, a high school principal, ran a climate station at the Prussian Meteorological Institute. The son already got to know meteorology as a schoolboy and signed up for the army weather service in 1915. During the First World War he was assigned to the Turkish armed forces as head of a field weather station in Palestine . In Breslau and Jena he studied physics and mathematics from 1918 until his doctorate in 1921. He set up the first German aviation weather station in Fürth and headed it until 1923. Then he became an assistant at the University of Frankfurt , where he wrote the book “Theory of horizontal visibility ”, and University of Berlin . In 1926 he became director of the state observatory at TH Danzig . The “Meteorological Institute in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society ” was set up at the state observatory between 1933 and 1936 and was headed by Koschmieder as director. Koschmieder was also appointed "Scientific Member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society" (KWG). It was founded in agreement with the Senate of the Free City of Danzig. This Kaiser Wilhelm Institute was closed again when Koschmieder switched to the Reich Weather Service.

After joining the Reich Weather Service (1936) he headed the Lindenberg Aerological Observatory until 1942 and the Main Meteorological Observatory in Potsdam from 1942 until the end of the war . In 1945 he was brought to the Soviet Union as a prisoner of war , from which he returned in 1949 and from 1950 had a teaching position for meteorology at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1954 he followed a call to the full chair for meteorology at the TH Darmstadt and was appointed director of the institute for meteorology that was to be established. In 1963 he retired.

1956 to 1961 he was director of the institute for gliding in Munich.

Koschmieder's scientific achievement is the "theory of horizontal visibility" in flight meteorology ( visual flight conditions), which was also his main area of ​​research. He developed measuring devices for airports, dealt with gusts and turbulences and cloud photogrammetry and convection currents (which are important, for example, in gliding). His textbook Dynamic Meteorology was also influential .

Fonts

  • Dynamic Meteorology , Leipzig: Academic Publishing Society, 1933 u.ö.
  • About gusts , scientific papers, Reichsamt für Wetterdienst, 8.3, Springer Verlag 1940
  • About Tromben , Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Reichsamt für Wetterdienst, 6.3, Springer Verlag 1940
  • Elementary theory of line gusts and chimney currents , flight meteorological research 1, Braunschweig, Vieweg 1953
  • Results of the German gust measurements 1939/1941 , Volume 1 Small-scale synoptic representation of the gusts , Vieweg 1955
  • Proof and description, as well as contributions to the kinematics and dynamics of the sea wind , Danziger Seewindstudien 1, Leipzig, Akad. Verlagsges. 1936

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Rüdiger Hachtmann in: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/KWG/Erresult/Erresult19.pdf and "Chronicle of the KWG and MPG 1911-2011", ISBN 978-3-428-13623-0 , page 177 and page 200
personal data
SURNAME Koschmieder, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1966
Place of death Darmstadt