Klaus Strobach

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Klaus Strobach (born January 16, 1920 in Braunschweig ; † August 5, 2004 in Geislingen an der Steige ) was a German geophysicist .

Life

Strobach was a trained surveyor and from 1940 to 1945 he was on duty at the Luftwaffe test center in Peenemünde . In 1947 he made up his Abitur in Hamburg, where he studied geophysics with a doctorate in 1956 ( New Methods for Investigating Microseismic Soil Unrest in Hamburg ). In 1961 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg ( A contribution to the problem of the origin and wave nature of microseismic soil unrest ). In 1964 he became professor of geophysics at the Free University of Berlin and in 1969 at the University of Stuttgart as head of the Institute for Geophysics, formerly the earthquake service of the State Statistical Office. The first professor of geophysics in Stuttgart was Wilhelm Hiller in 1962 . Strobach became his successor and when he took up his post, the institute of the State Statistical Office of the university was incorporated. From 1971 to 1973 he was Dean of the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences. In 1988 he retired. His successor on the chair was Erhard Wielandt .

He dealt with microseismics, refraction seismics, plate tectonics and developed a near-quake seismograph.

He also authored popular science books and gave popular science lectures.

Fonts

  • Editor with Hans Dieter Heck, Rolf Schick: Earthquake area Germany: at the crack seam of Europe: earthquake causes and processes, DVA 1980
  • From the Big Bang to the Earth, Weltbild Verlag 1990
  • Our planet earth - origin and dynamics, Gebr. Bornträger 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data and short biography in the entry in Vierhaus, Deutsche Biographie, KG Saur
personal data
SURNAME Strobach, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 2004
Place of death Geislingen an der Steige