Horst Gäbler

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Weather station on the Fichtelberg - Gäbler's place of work

Horst Gäbler (born December 17, 1921 in Pöhla ; † January 6, 2014 ) was a German engineer for meteorology and weather warden on the Fichtelberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains . He was the first to sketch a so-called Moilanenbogen as part of an ice fog halo, which stood in a V-shape about 10 ° above the sun.

Life

Gäbler was born as the son of a lithographer from Leipzig and his wife, the daughter of the Pöhla forester, in the forester's house in Pöhla in the western Ore Mountains . In 1924 he and his parents moved to Dresden , the capital of Saxony , where he attended school. After the subsequent training as an engineer-meteorologist , he took over the management of the meteorological station on the 1214 m high Fichtelberg, the highest mountain in the former GDR. From then on, he and his family lived in the meteorological station on the mountain top. The weather station on the Fichtelberg was expanded into a mountain observatory under his direction . In 1981, after he retired, he passed the post of weather officer into younger hands. He last lived in Radebeul .

His records show that he experienced an average of 300 foggy days a year and an average temperature of 2.8 degrees Celsius. Measured snow depths of 10 to 12 meters were not uncommon.

He was jokingly called the highest man in the GDR .

His wife Helga (1923–2016) published several books, including a. about their home village Reppen ( Reppen: a village in transition. Radebeul around 2006.), about the Oberwiesenthal aid organizations ( Always helpful: Development of the Oberwiesenthal aid organizations. Leipzig 2008. ISBN 978-3-941394-03-2 ) as well as their personal memories ( Stories for my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and everyone who is interested. Leipzig 2004. ISBN 3-9809165-3-7 ). In 2015 she was awarded the Ur-Krostitzer Jahresring in the Lifetime Achievement category . Her daughter Brigitte Roscher b. Gäbler (* 1951) was the director of the Ski and Local History Museum in Oberwiesenthal.

Fonts (selection)

  • Mirages on the Fichtelberg , in: Culture and Home. Monthly sheet for the exchange of experiences in all areas of cultural work in the Annaberg district 2 (1955), 4, pp. 9-12
  • The International Geophysical Year and the Fichtelberg Weather Station , in: Kultur und Heimat 6 (1959), 4
  • About the ultraviolet radiation in the mountains as a healing factor , in: Kultur und Heimat 6 (1959) 8
  • Thunderstorm on the Fichtelberg , in: Kultur und Heimat, 6 (1959), 11
  • Calendar-related peculiarities , in: Kultur und Heimat, 7 (1960), 4, 7. 8, 10 and 11

Awards

literature

  • Horst Gäbler, head of the weather station on the Fichtelberg, at the sunshine recorder on the tower of the station , in: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge 18 (1973), p. 1.
  • Manfred Pollmer : As a weather warden 25 years on the Fichtelberg , in: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge 20 (1975), p. 7f.
  • Annals of Meteorology , 1977
  • Theodor Müller: Moments and Moments , 2004, pp. 45–61.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glückauf! Journal of the Erzgebirgsverein 125 (2014), issue 2, p. 47. ISSN  0342-5150
  2. ↑ Moilanenbogen (EE77), accessed on 25 January 2016th
  3. ↑ Radebeuler Official Journal of December 1, 2013 , accessed on May 31, 2016
  4. ↑ German as a Foreign Language, Vol. 14, 1977
  5. ↑ The winners in the 2015 anniversary year , accessed on January 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ Radebeulerin receives prize for her life's work , accessed on January 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gäbler, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer for meteorology
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Pöhla
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2014