Josef van Eimern

Josef van Eimern (born March 16, 1921 in Till near Kleve ; † January 10, 2008 in Freising ) was a German forest and agricultural meteorologist .

Life

Josef van Eimern studied meteorology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . During the Second World War he was used as a meteorological observer on remote sensing flights by the Air Force. After the end of the war he also studied mathematics , physics , geography and philosophy in Bonn ; In 1948, the University of Bonn with the work was on the mathematics and science faculty fluctuations of the natural water balance at the left Niederrhein with special emphasis on groundwater fluctuations to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . At the same time, the state examination for teaching at higher schools followed. He found his first professional engagement with the national meteorological service of the Federal Republic of Germany, from which the German Weather Service (DWD) emerged in 1952 .

In 1956 Josef van Eimern set up the agrometeorological test and advice center in Weihenstephan. At the same time , he completed his habilitation in 1964 with the presentation of studies on the climate in plant stocks as the basis for agro-meteorological advice, in particular for plant protection at the Technical University of Munich , and taught at the TUM and the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences as a private lecturer . After several stays abroad and visiting professor in 1980, he received a reputation as a professor for Bioclimatology at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen and director of settled in the Forest Sciences Institute of Bioclimatology. As an emeritus from 1986 he taught at the Technical University of Munich in Freising , the forerunner of today's Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and the Environment at the Technical University of Munich . He was particularly concerned with forest ecology and the so-called forest dieback .

Professor van Eimern was chairman from 1979 to 1981 and vice chairman from 1982 to 1984 of the German Meteorological Society DMG .

Since 1947 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Ripuaria Bonn , later also the KDSt.V. Ascania Bonn , the FAV Rheno-Guestfalia Münden and the KDSt.V. Agilolfia zu Freising-Weihenstephan, whose ribbon of honor "optime merito" he received in 1998. All of these connections belong to the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) .

Prof. Dr. rer. nat Josef van Eimern died on January 10, 2008 in Freising. He found his final resting place in the local St. Georg cemetery .

Fonts

• Fluctuations in the natural water balance on the left Lower Rhine with special consideration of the groundwater fluctuations , dissertation, Bonn 1948
• Results of windbreak investigations in Hamburg-Garstedt 1952 , agriculture - applied science, Hiltrup near Münster 1954, together with Ernst Franken and Heinz Harries
• Local climatic studies in the area of ​​the Harburg Mountains and the neighboring Elbe lowlands , agriculture - applied science, Hiltrup near Münster 1954, together with Egon Kaps
• About the variability of the wind protection effect of a row of double trees under different meteorological conditions , reports of the German Weather Service (No. 32 = Volume 5), Bad Kissingen 1957
• Investigation of relief-related small climatic issues in cross-sections of the high-montane and montane level of the Central and Southwest Harz Mountains , reports of the German Weather Service (No. 50), Offenbach 1959, together with Friedrich Karl Hartmann and Gisela Jahn
• Small guide to meteorology for agriculture, fruit and horticulture , Stuttgart 1960 (extensively edited and reissued several times; most recently in collaboration with Hans Häckel as the 4th edition under the title Wetter- und Klimakunde. Ein Lehrbuch der Agrarmeteorologie , Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-4053-5 )
• Investigations on the climate in plant stocks as the basis of agro-meteorological advice, especially for plant protection , habilitation thesis, Munich 1964 (in print under this title as no. 96 of the series "Reports of the German Weather Service", Offenbach 1964)

literature

• Gisela Jahn: Professor Dr. Josef van Eimern on entering retirement . In: Der Forst- und Holzwirt , Volume 41, Issue 9, 1986. P. 252
• Josef van Eimern . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003. 19th edition. Volume I: A - J. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 667

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef van Eimern in the catalog of the German National Library