Karl Wienert

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Karl Wienert (born March 30, 1913 in Serpallen , East Prussia ; † August 24, 1992 ) was a German geophysicist .

Wienert studied geophysics and received his doctorate in Königsberg in 1936, where he was then assistant at the geophysical station.

In 1938/39 he took part in Ernst Schäfer's Tibet expedition and undertook geomagnetic measurements in the Himalayas. After that he stayed with Schäfer and was his assistant at the SS-Ahnenerbe , also when the latter founded the Sven Hedin Institute. During the war, Karl Wienert had the thankless task following an idea by Heinrich Himmler to look for gold in the Inn and Isar regions (see Josef Wimmer ). In 1944 he completed his habilitation in Munich with a thesis on geomagnetism.

After the war he worked as a geophysicist in Pakistan. Among other things, he built a geomagnetic observatory there. In 1954 he was a participant in the Himalaya-Karakoram expedition of mountaineer Mathias Rebitsch .

From 1958 on he headed the geomagnetic observatory of the University of Munich in Fürstenfeldbruck . In Munich, Johann von Lamont first carried out geomagnetic measurements at the Bogenhausen observatory. From 1927 to 1937 the observatory was in the village of Maisach near Munich, when a military airfield was built there, they moved to Fürstenfeldbruck, with Friedrich Burmeister (1919–1957) as its first director . The observatory was transferred from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences to the University of Munich in 1938.

Fonts

  • 125 years of geomagnetic observations in Munich, Maisach and Fürstenfeldbruck. In: G. Angenheister (Ed.) On the 125th anniversary of the Munich - Maisach - Fürstenfeldbruck observatories, Geophysical Observatory Fürstenfeldbruck, 1966, pp. 7–51

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates according to the entry in: Johannes Eltzschig, Michael Walter (Ed.), The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47, Guide to the Microfiche Edition, KG Saur, 2001, p. 152
  2. ↑ Michael Polster, Who Was Ernst Schäfer?
  3. ^ Expedition says goodbye , Zeit, April 29, 1954
  4. ^ History of the geomagnetic observatory in Munich
personal data
SURNAME Wienert, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Serpallen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1992