Karl Friedrich Otto Schuster

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Karl Friedrich Otto Schuster (born December 19, 1846 in Karlsruhe ; † January 11, 1927 there ) was a German officer , weather researcher and mayor.

Friedrich Schuster was active in the Baden fortress artillery since 1865. In 1892 he resigned from military service , now with the rank of lieutenant colonel , but was called up again for military service in the First World War . From 1895 to 1904 he was mayor of Triberg . During his term of office, u. a. the construction of a new slaughterhouse and the commissioning of a public swimming pool - Triberg was the first place in the Black Forest with such a facility. Plans for a spa facility also began during Schuster's tenure , but this dragged on until the 1960s.

Schuster was married to Maria Eisenlohr. After his active military service, he devoted himself to weather research, collected weather data from Karlsruhe and other places and published a large number of articles, including a. on the influence of the moon on the weather and on his studies of air pressure .

His estate with numerous documents and records, both during his military service and his time as mayor, as well as his meteorological studies, has been in the Baden State Library since 1927 .

Publications

  • Tidal wave. Vienna 1908.
  • Modern Theoretical Physics and the Aether: A Defense of the Material Aether. Braun, Karlsruhe 1913.
  • The 18.6-year lunar period in meteorological terms. In: Meteorological Journal, October 1913.
  • The shift in the synodic air pressure system under the influence of the 18.6-year lunar period. In: Annalen der Hydrographie und maritimen Meteorologie, Vol. 44, No. 8, 1916. Review in: Physikalische Zeitschrift, Vol. 14, 1916.
  • The annual and monthly frequency of the earthquakes. In: Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 206, 1918, pp. 189-202.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-Heinz Müller: School detention became a living room. In: Südkurier , January 14, 2003.
  2. ^ History. City of Triberg, accessed on September 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ For this and the preceding cf. Karl Preisendanz : From the Badische Landesbibliothek. In: Karlsruher Tagblatt, March 5, 1927.
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Karl Friedrich Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuster, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and weather researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1927
Place of death Karlsruhe