Karl Rinner
Karl Rinner (born October 4, 1912 in Gratkorn , Styria , † August 27, 1991 in Graz ) was an Austrian geodesist , university lecturer in Berlin and Graz and civil engineer .
Because of his extensive achievements in photogrammetry , engineering and higher geodesy , he received the honorary title of "universal geodesy" in professional circles.
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Childhood between card games, Kepler and art
Karl Rinner was born in October 1912 as the fifth child of the mayor of Gratkorn (Styria), Hans Rinner and his wife Maria. The father's ancestors were farmers and innkeepers , the mother came from Wildon south of Graz.
After elementary school in Gratkorn, Rinner came to the Graz Keplerschule , where his wide range of interests became evident. The secondary school student optimized railway timetables for the use of his classmates and occupied himself with reading and painting .
His father died in 1928, and Rinner subsequently took part in the family business and graduated from middle school in 1930 .
Studies and early employment
In autumn Rinner began studying mathematics and descriptive geometry at the University of Graz and surveying at the TH . This time later shaped him and contributed to his interest in photogrammetry . In 1936 he graduated from the TH degree, followed in the same year by his dissertation on Wiener'sche imaginary projection .
Because of the unemployment prevailing in Austria, Rinner found work in Germany. In the Land Survey Office in Munich , Rinner was assigned the triangulation that led him through large parts of Bavaria .
In 1938 he married his fiancée Waltraud (daughter of Count Maldeghem near Graz). They soon moved from Ansbach to Munich, where Rinner set up a photogrammetric department .
Special deployment in the war, activity in the navy and habilitation in Berlin
Rinner was posted for special use in 1939. The initially released civilian received a request to set up a “photogrammetry and surveying” department in the navy and, after completing basic military training, took up the position of lieutenant captain . In the course of the war he rose to the senior government council (rank of frigate captain ).
During this time he completed his habilitation at the TH Berlin -Charlottenburg , where he lectured as a lecturer and developed the basics of a new discipline, marine geodesy .
New beginning in Graz
At the end of the war he was able to return to his family in Gratkorn (3 sons and 5 daughters), but was not given full freedom of movement in the British occupation zone until 1948 due to the denazification. He worked in the cadastre and on technical surveys. His second habilitation took place in 1953 at the TH Graz , and finally he became known elsewhere through lectures, trips and guest lectures. In 1957 he was appointed director of the German Geodetic Research Institute in Munich.
Professorship in Graz and international activity
It was not until 1959 that Rinner was appointed full professor - probably because of his stressful activities in the National Socialist Third Reich . However , he exchanged the call to the TH Vienna with Alois Barvirs at the TH Graz , so that both could stay in their own federal state.
He began special research in photogrammetry, the measurement of earth tides , EDM distance measurement and also in the latest field of satellite geodesy . New contacts to the USA and Canada , to South America , Africa , Japan and the GDR were established - and international recognition in the form of leadership positions in study groups , in scientific associations such as IAG and IUGG - and a total of 4 honorary doctorates .
Scientific publications
Karl Rinner wrote several geodetic textbooks and 2 books of the 12-volume standard work Handbuch der Vermessungskunde ("Jordan-Eggert- Kneissl ") - namely Volume VI (electronic distance measurement ) and IIIa ( photogrammetry ). He also wrote (often as a co-author ) around 160 scientific publications between 1936 and 1982 . They mainly relate to the following topics:
Land and engineering surveying
- State Survey : triangulation via regression analysis and matrix calculus to the geodesic main tasks , the 3D -Geodäsie and various reduction methods, refraction , set up the data center of Graz and the EDM test network Styria, from DÖDOC and European network to Siberia and the People's Republic of China (trip already in 1972 ), Tunnel networks, gyroscopes , development tendencies in land surveying, Vektor Graz- Sopron , WEST-EAST European network.
- Mathematical cartography : series developments for Bonne's projection and double projection (NL), Danish surveying network .
- Surveying : staking out , polygon course , backward section , calibration of geodimeters and tellurometers , microwaves versus lasers, medicine and technology.
- Engineering geodesy : setting out bridges , dams and tunnels (e.g. TAL and Tauern tunnel , partly with Günther Schelling ), basics of the cadastre , engineering geodesy and economy , fixed point field Roggenstein.
- Photogrammetry: perspective , theory of orientation , dangerous places , radio measurement technology , affine models , aerial photo measurement, analytical photogrammetry , bundle block , commemorative publication W.Scherhorn , two- media -F.
Marine and Higher Geodesy
- Navigation and Marine Geodesy : Nautical and Coastal Surveying, Shoran and Hiran , Ohio's First Marine Geodesy Symposium , Doppler Navigation , Gyroscope, and Inertial Navigation .
- Satellite geodesy : SECOR , Helmut Wolf method , on satellite cameras , establishment of the fundamental station Graz-Lustbühel , management and overview reports of research groups, geodynamics .
- Higher Geodesy : Hochzieltriangulation , rows of earth ellipsoid , Earth tides with horizontal pendulum , harmonic analysis , 3D Resection and spatial rotation and expansion , Astrogeoid (total-Austrian. Project with K.Bretterbauer and W.Embacher ), Austria's contribution to the IGP (Global Geophysics Project 1978 on the civil engineering of the earth's crust), astrogeodesy around Graz (with G.Chesi , H.Lichtenegger and G.Gerstbach ).
Honors, academic and international functions
- 1970–72 rector of the Graz University of Technology
- 1972 Head of the Commission for Training of the IAG
- 1974 honorary doctoral engineer from the Technical University of Darmstadt
- 1974 corresponding member (1975 full member) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1975–79 President of Section I (Geodetic Networks) of the IAG
- 1976 honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1979 President of the Austrian Commission for International Earth Surveying (ÖKIE)
- 1980 Chairman of the Austrian National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics
- 1981 Honorary doctoral engineer from the University of Hanover
- 1984 Wilhelm Exner Medal
- 1987 3rd Vice President of the IAG
- Honorary member of the German Association for Surveying (DVW)
- Ring of Honor of the State of Styria
In 1978, Karl Rinner was released from his duties at TU Graz when he retired . Until 1990/91 he wrote book reviews for specialist journals such as Österreichische Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen (ÖZ, since 1994 VGI - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Vermessung und Geoinformation ) and ZfV .
Appreciation
In recognition of his services, the Austrian Geodetic Commission awards the Karl Rinner Prize for international presentations and publications by young Austrian scientists .
Award winners have been:
- 2003 - Franz Rottensteiner
- 2004 - Johannes Böhm (geodesist)
- 2005 - Andreas Wieser
- 2006 - Alexander Reiterer
- 2007 - Paulo Jorge Mendes Cerveira
- 2008 - Helmut Woschitz
- 2010 - Tobias Nilsson
- 2011 - Elmar Wasle
- 2013 - Hana Krásná
- 2014 - Andreas Roncat
- 2015 - Philipp Berglez
- 2016 - Michael Schindelegger
- 2017 - Matthias Ehrhart
- 2018 - Andreas Hellerschmied
Since June 1997, Rinner has given its name to the Rinner Trough , a deep-sea trench in the Antarctic Weddell Sea . On October 29, 2012, a memorial colloquium of the Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation with Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof and Professors Holger Magel , Gottfried Konencny, Hans Sünkel and Fritz Brunner took place in the auditorium of Graz University of Technology in memory of Professor Rinner on the occasion of his 100th birthday Speakers instead.
literature
- Geodaesia Universalis. Festschrift for Karl Rinner's 70th birthday . Communication from the geodetic institutes of Graz University of Technology, Volume 40, pp. 1–24, Graz 1982.
- o.Univ.Prof. GDR. Karl Rinner on his 65th birthday . Austrian Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen & Phot., Vol. 65, pp. 144–159, Vienna 1977.
- In memory of Karl Rinner . Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen (ZfV), vol. 116, pp. 588-590, Stuttgart 1991.
- Holger Magel: Karl Rinner for the hundredth. The Styrian who loved Bavaria so much. In: Communications of the DVW-Bayern , 1/2013. Pp. 9-20.
Web links
- Karl Rinner Prize
- Rectors and deans of the TH and TU Graz, 1827 to 2004 ( Memento from August 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
- Entry about Karl Rinner in the database of the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ VGI Online Archive. Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation , accessed on January 23, 2020 .
- ^ ÖGK , accessed on January 22, 2020
- ↑ Austrian Journal for Measurement & Geoinformation , Issue 4/2012, pp. 391–409
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rinner, Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geodesist, long-term university lecturer in Berlin and Graz and civil engineer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1912 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Burr grain |
DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1991 |
Place of death | Graz |