Helmut Werner (astronomer)

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Helmut August Albert Werner (born September 8, 1905 in Perleberg ; † September 19, 1973 in Oberkochen ) was one of the most important astronomers at Carl Zeiss in Jena before the Second World War , along with Walther Bauersfeld and Walter Augustin Villiger .

Life

Werner studied pure and applied mathematics as well as physics and astronomy in Hamburg, Jena and Berlin. In 1926 he also worked in Berlin as a lecturer and assistant at the local planetarium. In 1929 he passed the scientific examination for teaching at higher schools in Jena. Werner received his doctorate in 1932 with the dissertation "Investigations into the orbit of the comet 1905 IV (Kopff)", which was suggested by the astronomer Otto Knopf (1856-1945) and which his successor on the professorship in Jena, Heinrich Vogt , continued to oversee. Exam subjects were astronomy, mathematics and applied mathematics.

After completing his doctorate, Helmut Werner was an assistant at the Munich observatory in 1932. Due to poor pay, he returned to Jena after a short time, where he became a research assistant at Carl Zeiss (company) . On December 27, 1932 he married Dorothea Starke .

Since 1938 Werner was head of the Zeiss planetarium in addition to his employment at Zeiss. In these functions, as well as later, he published numerous articles. He was involved in some patents of the Zeiss company in the field of planetariums, for example in 1940 together with Walther Bauersfeld on a projection device.

After his wife Dorothea died in 1943, Werner remarried in 1945. After the Second World War, like many other employees of the Carl Zeiss company , he was brought with his family to Oberkochen , where he continued to work in the same position.

literature

Thomas Bischof: Applied Mathematics and the Approaches of Mathematical and Natural Science Studies for Women in Thuringia , FSU Jena 2013

Fonts

  • Investigations into the orbit of the comet 1905 IV (Kopff). (Dissertation University of Jena).
  • You can waste the stars. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1953.
  • From the Pole Star to the Southern Cross: a generally understandable introduction to the astronomy of the celestial sphere and instructions for orientation in the field according to stars all over the world. G. Fischer, Jena 1946.
  • Orientation in the terrain according to the stars: a guide in the starry sky at home. 3. Edition. G. Fischer, Jena 1944.
  • From the Arat globe to the Zeiss planetarium. Zeiss, Oberkochen 1953 (English translation: From the Aratus globe to the Zeiss planetarium. G. Fischer 1957).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Bischof, Education in Europe, Part 1 (Ed. Martin Hermann): "Applied Mathematics and Women's Studies in Thuringia" CEJ Vol. 44, Jena 2014
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Helmut August Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Pearl Mountain
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 1973
Place of death Oberkochen