Heinz Reuter

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Heinz Reuter (born January 22, 1914 in Vienna ; † May 8, 1994 ibid) was an Austrian meteorologist and director of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in Vienna.

Life

Heinz Reuter was born in Vienna as the son of forensic doctor and local politician Fritz Reuter and studied mathematics and physics at the University of Graz , where he received his doctorate in 1937. phil. received his doctorate .

On August 1, 1938, he was employed at the Wels Air Base as a meteorologist for the Reich Weather Service and in 1942 he was promoted to Weather Service Manager for Slovakia , Romania and Bulgaria before he was taken prisoner by the British .

From 1945 to 1962, Reuter worked for the ZAMG's scientific service and completed his habilitation in 1947 at the University of Vienna , where he became tit. ao. Prof. , from 1962 as ao. Prof. and from 1967 as full professor and full professor for theoretical meteorology until 1985.

In 1976 he returned to ZAMG and succeeded Ferdinand Steinhauser as director. He held this post until his retirement in 1984.

Heinz Reuter lived with his wife Paula, to whom he had been married since 1943, in Vienna and was buried on May 18, 1994 in the Hietzing cemetery.

Scientific importance

Shortly after his appointment as the new director of ZAMG on May 1, 1976, he set up the new department for environmental meteorology at ZAMG as a specialist in the field of synoptics and theoretical meteorology. He thus satisfied the rapidly growing need for advice and assessment in connection with official approval procedures for the construction and operation of industrial plants.

During his tenure, the first Meteosat images were received. The first could be received on August 22, 1979 in the ZAMG and from October 22, close-ups were broadcast in the ORF weather report on television . The weather reports he presented on television made Reuter very well known.

The objective treatment of grid point data from the forecast maps calculated by the European Center for Medium-Range Forecasts (ECMWF) was made possible by the development of the MOD (Model Output Diagnosis) program, which enabled a longer-term forecast of the weather to be introduced in the television weather report.

Memberships and honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Reuter, personal data in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. Heinz Reuter in the history of ZAMG , accessed on September 2, 2016