Heinrich Koppe

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Heinrich Koppe (born March 26, 1891 in Nordhausen , † November 9, 1963 in Braunschweig ) was a German aeronautical engineer , flight meteorologist and professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

life and work

The son of the publisher Julius Koppe (1850–1926) and the Bremen merchant's daughter Luise, b. Bullerdieck (1866–1952) graduated from the royal high school in Nordhausen in 1910. He studied mathematics and natural sciences in Jena and Halle from 1910 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1920 . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity . The meteorologist Albert Wigand was one of his academic teachers . During the First World War he did military service from 1914 to 1918 as an airship and meteorologist, including on the Western Front , in Turkey and in Damascus . In 1920 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1920 to 1930 Koppe was head of the physical department of the German Aviation Research Institute (DVL) in Berlin-Adlershof . In 1925 Koppe completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin .

At the annual meetings of the Scientific Society for Aviation (WGL) in 1928 and 1929, he advocated against large parts of the professional world the need for instrument flight , i.e. flying blind after instruments.

In October 1930 Koppe received a teaching position for flight navigation and flight measuring equipment from the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1931 he became a scheduled associate professor and in 1934 a full professor of aeronautical measurement technology. In 1930, with the help of the University Association and the Braunschweig Airport Company, he set up an initially private "Institute for Aviation Measurement Technology and Aviation Meteorology" at Broitzem Airport . This was affiliated to the TH Braunschweig in 1934. Since 1936 the TH Braunschweig has been expanded as an aviation training center, whereby Koppe played a key role in setting up four aviation institutes at Braunschweig-Waggum Airport . Between 1938/39 and the end of the Second World War , a large number of aerospace engineers emerged from the institutes.

The aviation department of the TH Braunschweig was dissolved in 1945 after the end of the war. Koppe received a chair for measurement technology and meteorology and was only able to resume teaching in aeronautics in 1952. The first aeronautical science conference in post-war Germany took place in Braunschweig in 1952, with Koppe contributing the main lecture "Aviation - a human problem". During the conference, the WGL, which was dissolved in 1936, was re-established. In 1955 Koppe was able to move back into his old institute building in Waggum, which had been little damaged during the war . He retired in 1959, but was a substitute at the successor chair at the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology until 1961 . Between 1953 and 1961 Koppe also headed the Institute for Aircraft Control at what is today the German Research Institute for Aerospace. V. (DLR) in Braunschweig. He was on the scientific advisory board of the Federal Agency for the German Weather Service , founded in 1952 .

Honors

In 1961 Koppe was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit. Since 1943 he was a full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 262.

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personal data
SURNAME Koppe, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koppe, Heinrich Gustav Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aeronautical engineer, flight meteorologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1963
Place of death Braunschweig