Herbert Regula

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Herbert Regula (born July 19, 1910 in Hanover ; † November 27, 1980 in Kelkheim ) was a German meteorologist and member of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 .

Life

Herbert Regula passed the Abitur at the Elberfelder Gymnasium in spring 1928 and received his doctorate in 1933 with the thesis Sound propagation in the atmosphere at the University of Göttingen . The following year he became a meteorologist at the Deutsche Seewarte in Hamburg and was employed as an on-board meteorologist on the catapult ship Westfalen in the winter of 1933/34 . Because of his experience on this ship, which was originally intended as the expedition ship of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39, Regula was selected by the German Naval Observatory as chief meteorologist for the expedition in October 1938. His tasks included meteorological observations during the entire voyage as well as high-altitude wind measurements through balloon ascents from the coast of Antarctica . A group of nunataks protruding from the ice sheet was named Regulakette by the expedition leaders .

After the Second World War, Regula continued to work on the evaluation of the expedition results, which were published in a second volume in several deliveries between 1954 and 1958. Until his retirement he was employed by the German Weather Service in Offenbach am Main . In 1972 he took part in meetings of representatives of European weather services, which later led to the creation of EUMETSAT .

Fonts (selection)

  • The work of the expedition weather station. Part I: appointment observation, altitude wind measurements, weather service, probe examinations. in: Preliminary report on the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39, Annals of Hydrography and Maritime Meteorology, VIII, supplement 1939, pp. 33–35
  • The weather conditions during the expedition and the results of the meteorological measurements. in: Alfred Ritscher (Ed.) German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39. Scientific and aeronautical results. Volume 2, 1st delivery, Mundus, Hamburg 1954-1958, pp. 16-40.
  • Elementary weather studies Academic Publishing Society, Frankfurt a. M., 1956.
  • The meteorological conditions on the route Germany - South America . Reports of the German Weather Service No. 71, Offenbach a. M., 1960.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on the school year 1927/28, Elberfeld 1928, p. 20.
  2. Cornelia Lüdecke: On a secret mission to the Antarctic. Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 26, 2003, p. 96
  3. ^ Directory of German names in the Antarctic ( memento of January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 15, 2014
  4. Regular chain in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
  5. 25 years EUMETSAT . EUMETSAT 2011, p. 38. ISBN 978-92-9110-089-7