Karl Hofius
Karl Hofius (* 1938 in Duisburg ) is a German geoscientist and hydrologist .
Life
Karl Hofius studied geography, hydrology and limnology at the universities of Kiel, Freiburg and Bonn. In 1969 he received his doctorate in Freiburg.
From 1969 to 1972 he was the scientific secretary of the Senate Commission for Water Research of the German Research Foundation in Bonn. Here he supervised u. a. the German contribution to the International Hydrological Decade (IHD) of UNESCO, which was scheduled from 1965 to 1974.
He then returned to the Chair of Geography and Hydrology at the University of Freiburg as a research assistant. The IHD was transferred to the International Hydrological Program (IHP). The German IHP National Committee, which is chaired by the Foreign Office, handed over management to the Federal Institute for Hydrology in 1974, which set up its own secretariat for this purpose. Karl Hofius became head of this secretariat.
So he was able to bring the experiences from the IHD into the IHP and develop it further.
When the WMO's Operational Hydrology Program (OHP) was established in 1975, the IHP National Committee agreed to oversee the OHP at the national level. This is how the managing IHP / OHP secretariat came into being, whose fields of activity Karl Hofius oversaw and played a key role in until 2003.
In 1979 he took up the position of a lecturer at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and was made an honorary professor in 1988.
Karl Hofius has always pursued the cooperation in the cross-border catchment areas of the Rhine and Danube in a particularly sustainable manner. He was a founding member of the International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine Area (KHR) and the regional cooperation of the Danube countries within the framework of the IHP. Through his numerous international projects and activities, he quickly found recognition in the international community.
In 1993 he was made an honorary member of the Hungarian Hydrological Society. In 1993 he was elected President of the Commission for Hydrology (CHy) of the WMO, one of the eight scientific commissions of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that determine and monitor the content of the specialist programs. Karl Hofius led and shaped the CHy for two terms of office.
Karl Hofius campaigned for the concerns of Agenda 21 in order to intensify the commitment of the WMO to the protection of the resource drinking water and its scientifically based management. The resolution was passed in 1999 by the 13th WMO Congress.
He also supported the increase in the budget for the Hydrology and Water Resources department, despite the reduced overall WMO budget.
The collaboration with the internationally oriented Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok was particularly important to Karl Hofius.
Karl Hofius has been chairman of the Finance Committee for the IHP of UNESCO since 2000 , and he also works actively in the CHy Advisory Working Group.
Karl Hofius has been retired since May 1st, 2003 .
Karl Hofius lives in Boppard and was chairman of the Greens in the Boppard city council between March 2012 and May 2014 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hofius, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geoscientist and hydrologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |