Karl Bernhard Bamler

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Karl Bernhard Bamler (born October 29, 1865 in Cammin ; † March 27, 1926 in Essen - Rellinghausen ) was a German meteorologist , teacher and pioneer of free ballooning .

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Bamler attended the secondary school in Guebwiller, Alsace, and studied mathematics and natural sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Kaiser Wilhelms University . In Strasbourg he became a member of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia in 1887 .

After the state examination in 1893 he was an assistant in the meteorological service in Alsace until 1895, but then switched to school service. First he worked at the secondary school in Strasbourg, then at the grammar school in Haguenau , then at the secondary school in Essen , the grammar school in Wuppertal and finally at the Helmholtz grammar school in Essen . In 1902 he founded the Niederrheinischer Verein für Luftschifffahrt (NVfL), which was initially located in Barmen (today Wuppertal) and from 1906 in Essen. In 1903 the club started the maiden flight of its Barmen balloon from Frankenplatz in Düsseldorf - Derendorf .

Then he was the founder and from 1913 to 1920 head of the Meteorological Observatory in Essen. He was also a board member and honorary member of the German Aviation Association and co-founder of the International Aviation Association.

The Bamlerstraße at the former filling space for the free balloons in Altenessen today bears his name. Bamler is buried in the municipal cemetery in Essen-Rellinghausen.

In the Wuppertal District Langer Field Beyenburg is Karl-Bamler street named after him.

Works

  • Contributions to the reduction of short-term temperature observations to long-term normal mean . Wiemann, Barmen 1899 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads - who was what? Richard Bracht Verlag, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists . 1930, 31, 22.
  2. ^ History , website of the Düsseldorfer Aero Club eV (Wolfgang Martin, excerpt from the chronicle in the Festschrift 2002), accessed on May 25, 2016.
  3. ^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
  4. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Bamler, Karl Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Cammin
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1926
Place of death eat