Heinrich von Ficker

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Heinrich (von) Ficker (1885-1919 Heinrich Ritter Ficker von Feldhaus ; born November 22, 1881 in Munich , † April 29, 1957 in Vienna ) was an Austrian meteorologist , geophysicist and mountaineer .

Life

The son of the historian Julius von Ficker, who was ennobled in 1885, and brother of Ludwig and Rudolf von Ficker, was active as a mountaineer in his youth and during his studies in Innsbruck and was one of the best Tyrolean climbers. As a member of the Academic Alpine Club Innsbruck, Ficker took part in Willi Rickmer Rickmers ' 1903 Caucasus expedition . His attempt to climb Uschba , which was classified as the most difficult mountain in the world at the time, together with his sister Cenzi von Ficker and Adolf Schulze , ended with Schulze's fall shortly before the summit. Ficker was able to hold Schulze in the rope, but injured his hands in the process, so that he could not take part in Schulze's second attempt a few days later.

Heinrich and Heinz Ficker Knights of Feldhaus was on 30 June 1906, the University of Innsbruck for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1907 he gained international recognition as a meteorologist through his synoptic studies of cold air ingress in the Central Alps . In 1906 and 1910 Ficker carried out his Innsbruck foehn studies , in which he examined the air flow of the foehn by means of a balloon . Between 1910 and 1911 Ficker published his findings on polar cold air ingress and heat waves in Russia and North Asia.

In 1911 he was appointed to the chair for meteorology at the University of Graz . After his return from captivity, he resumed teaching in Graz. In 1923 he followed a call to the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , where he worked as a professor until 1937 and as director of the Prussian Meteorological Institute until 1934. In 1925 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1926 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

From 1937 until his retirement in 1952 he was a professor at the University of Vienna and director of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics . Ficker joined the National Socialist Air Corps (NSFK) in July 1938 and had to apply for denazification after the Second World War. Since 1942 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In September 1947 he was (re-) appointed full professor at the University of Vienna. From 1946 to 1951 he was President and from 1951 to 1957 Vice President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

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  1. History of the Alpine Society of Melzer Knappen (accessed on April 22, 2019)
  2. Stefan Meineke: A life full of adventure. Adolf Schulze - a forgotten pioneer of modern alpinism. in: Alpenvereinsjahrbuch 2001, pp. 96–109
  3. PhDs. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 149/1906, July 3, 1906, p. 4, center left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn
  4. ^ Members of the previous academies. Heinrich von Ficker. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 20, 2015 (with short biography).
  5. ^ Roman Pfefferle, Hans Pfefferle, Glimpflich denazisiert. The professorships of the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years, Writings of the Archives of the University of Vienna, Vienna 2014, p. 93, p. 288