Heinrich Vogt (astronomer)

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Grave of Heinrich Vogt in the cemetery in Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim

Heinrich Vogt , (born October 5, 1890 in Gau-Algesheim , Rhineland-Palatinate , † January 23, 1968 in Heidelberg ) was a German astronomer .

Life

Vogt was the youngest child of the farmer Philipp Vogt and his wife Margaretha, geb. Storm. Heinrich Vogt was married to Margarete geb. Brown. Both had a son and a daughter.

After graduating from high school in 1911 at the Herbstgymnasium (Kronberger Hof) in Mainz, in the winter semester 1911/12 at the University of Heidelberg with Max Wolf , whose assistant he was from 1912, Vogt began studying astronomy, mathematics and physics. He continued his scientific career in 1919 with a doctorate on the subject of “The theory of algol variable” and in 1921 with his habilitation (subject: “Photometric examinations and brightness determinations in the star cluster h and χ Persei”) and his inaugural lecture on the development of stars . In 1926 he was appointed associate professor in Heidelberg and was also an observer at the Baden observatory in Heidelberg-Königstuhl .

In 1929 Vogt was appointed full professor at the University of Jena and was also director of the Jena University Observatory from 1929 to 1933 . In 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP and then worked as political leader and confidante of the NSDAP district leadership at the university. In 1933 he became a member of the SA , in which he rose to Obersturmführer . In 1933 he was appointed full professor at the University of Heidelberg, where he succeeded Max Wolf, who died in 1932, and was director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1933 to 1945 .

In 1945 he was deposed as director of the observatory, but retained the professorship until his retirement in 1957. He addressed a larger audience in his lectures, wrote popular science monographs such as “The Spiral Nebula” (1946), “The Construction of the Universe” (1949) or “Kosmos and God” (1951) and finally turned to cosmological and natural philosophical questions , which he addressed in his last books "Extra-galactic star systems and the structure of the world in a big way" (1960), "The structure of the cosmos as a whole" (1961) and "Being in the view of the natural scientist" (1964).

In 1943 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

The Vogt uniqueness theorem (or Vogt-Russell theorem) is named after Heinrich Vogt .

Vogt discovered an asteroid on December 9, 1912 , which was named (735) Marghanna after Vogt's mother and a relative . His Heidelberg colleague Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth named one asteroid discovered on October 6, 1937 (1439) Vogtia and two asteroids discovered on January 8, 1937 after Vogt's wife (1410) Margret and (1411) Brauna .

Fonts

  • Structure and evolution of the stars. Leipzig: Becker & Erler, 1943, 2nd edition. Leipzig: Geest and Portig, 1957.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 643.
  2. member entry of Henry Vogt at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 18 June 2016th
  3. ^ Heinrich Vogt in the membership directory of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences