Heinrich Seilkopf

Heinrich Andreas Karl Seilkopf (born December 25, 1895 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † June 27, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German meteorologist and university professor.

Life

From March 1916 to March 1919 he was a scientific assistant at the weather service in Berlin and then until the end of the year he was a scientific assistant at the Meteorological Observatory in Essen.

From 1920 to March 1946 he was a meteorologist at the Deutsche Seewarte . In 1927 he became a private lecturer and employee at the aviation weather station in Hanover, since May 1929 as a councilor. After a short time as head of the aviation weather station in Hanover, he set up the ocean flight department of the German sea station. From March 1930 he was at the Hamburg aviation weather station. In June 1931 he became associate professor at the Technical University of Hanover , and since 1940 also lecturer in sea flight meteorology at the University of Hamburg . In 1939 he discovered jet flow . In 1941 he became director of the Maritime Weather Office of the German Weather Service in Hamburg-Nienstedten . The Seilkopfberge in the Antarctic Neuschwabenland are named after him.

He was also interested in ornithology .

Fonts

• Offprints, anthology ; 1923
• Results of altitude wind measurements in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Gulf of Mexico, February to May 1923 ; 1924
• Results of an aeronautical research trip to Columbia ; 1926
• Basics of the flight meteorology of the air route to East Asia ; 1927
• Contribution to aero-ozenography ; around 1928
• Microscopic sections of grass: drawn from mostly self-made specimens ; 1929
• The importance of the grasses for the formation biology of the homeland ; 1929
• Impressions and meteorological experiences on the world voyage of the airship "Graf Zeppelin" ; 1930
• Meteorological observations on the Las Palmas flight of Deutsche Luft Hansa: June and July 1928 ; 1930
• Handbook of aviation meteorology with Richard Habermehl and others; Berlin, Radetzki
  • 1. General meteorology ; 1942
  • 2. Maritime Meteorology ; 1939
  • 3. The measuring devices of the weather service ; 1939
• Meteorological navigation: Lecture given at the 6th scientific meeting of the full members on August 30, 1940
• Homecoming performance of racing pigeons depending on the weather, especially the wind
• Changes in climate and avifauna in Central Europe ; 1951
• The migration of a young white stork from Holstein to Finland (from a meteorological point of view) ; 1953
• Black- billed Shearwater, Puffinus puffinus puffinus, on the western Baltic Sea
• On the situation and weather conditions in the Hamburg area ; 1955
• with others: To work in maritime meteorology ; 1956
• Blackbirds (Turdus merula) singing unusual for the time and place ; 1967
• with Hans Baron: The white stork migration in the Sinai to Kena area from a morphological perspective
• White stork: Further cases of the Suez Golf Crossing and the Sinai Train
• The invasion of Lower Saxony white storks (Ciconia ciconia) in late summer 1959 in Switzerland
• Autumn turns

literature

• Meteorologische Rundschau , 21 (1968); P. 161.
• Walter Vogel: West Germany 1945 - 1950. 3. Individual administrative branches ; P. 280.
• Mttlg. DWD 14 1965 pp. 8-10; 48 1968 pp. 48-50.
• TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1956, Hanover: TH Hanover 1956, p. 23.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Institute for Applied Geodesy (Ed.): Directory of German-speaking geographical names in the Antarctic Archived from the original on January 23, 2009. In: News from the mapping and surveying system . Special issue, 1993, pp. 1-30. Retrieved May 10, 2010.