Klaus Voigt

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Klaus Voigt (born May 1, 1934 in Plauen ; † April 23, 1995 in Paris ) was a German oceanographer and science organizer in the GDR and with UNESCO .

Life

After graduating from high school in Plauen / Vogtland, the second son from a family of employees studied meteorology and geophysics at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Leipzig from 1951 to 1955 . His professors included the geophysicist Gerhard Fanselau , the meteorologists Walter Alfred Hesse, Horst Philipps as well as Max Robitzsch and the physicist Waldemar Ilberg . One of his fellow students was the future oceanologist, meteorologist and university professor Peter Hupfer (* 1933), with whom Klaus Voigt remained friendly throughout his life.

Klaus Voigt began his professional career as a hydrologist at the Hydrometeorological Institute of the Sea Hydrographic Service of the GDR , which in the 1950s belonged to the See People's Police and was headed by Erich Bruns (1900–1978). In 1962 Voigt wrote a dissertation on "Investigations in the surface layer of the Atlantic Ocean with a digitally recording temperature-conductivity-pressure measuring device" and, after successfully defending her, obtained the degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the then Karl Marx University of Leipzig. In his doctoral thesis , Voigt dealt with the results of the German expedition group during research trips with the research ship “ Michail Lomonossow ”, which has been sailing under the Soviet flag since 1957, as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGJ). After the GDR's Oceanographic Commission was accepted into the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) of the International Council for Science (ICSU) at the 7th General Assembly in Hamburg in 1964, Voigt held several functions in this international, non-governmental commission for oceanography, including one since 1972 Vice Presidents of SCOR. In August 1975 Voigt defended a scientific thesis entitled "The Equatorial Undercurrent in the Atlantic Ocean" and received the newly created academic degree of Doctor of Science in the GDR . Voigt was appointed professor at the Academy of Sciences on September 1, 1975.

Voigt was not bound by party politics in the GDR for years, not even when he was appointed commissioner on July 1, 1966 and director of the Institute for Oceanography from March 1, 1970. Not entirely voluntarily, mainly due to pressure from the academy's superiors, Voigt became a so-called state leader in 1981, initially a candidate of the SED and then a member of this party. His entry into the party took place after his first return from his first stay from 1976 to 1980 as a GDR employee of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in Paris.

When developing and using the research capacities of the Warnemünde Institute, Voigt was guided by the knowledge that there should be several clients, especially in the event that one of them breaks away. In the GDR, deep-sea fishing and water management, environmental protection as well as maritime geology and the navy, for which the sea ​​hydrographic service of the GDR acted as the client, benefited from this . During his international activities, Voigt had become known that the US Navy was also an important customer for maritime studies by civilian oceanographic institutes.

Voigt campaigned for the operation of research ships to be included in the statute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In March 1986 the director of the Academy Institute for Oceanography, who was also Vice President of the International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) at the time, led the GDR delegation to a multi-day meeting of the Executive Council at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Further international cooperation in the application of new research technologies in the intergovernmental programs to study the influence of oceanographic circulation on climate and weather, in mapping the seabed and researching the resources of the seabed, as well as developing living marine resources and protecting the Marine environment decided.

From January 1, 1990 until his sudden and unexpected death in the spring of 1995, Voigt served as UNESCO's Deputy Secretary of IOC in Paris. In an obituary by the Leibniz Society on its Leibniz Day 1995 for scientists who died in the reporting period and a. by members of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , to which Voigt had been a Corresponding Member since 1980 and a Full Member from 1989, he was recognized for his efforts to achieve “cooperation across political borders”, especially in the Baltic region. It was emphasized that Voigt dealt primarily with the "marine components of the world climate research program" in the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO .

Award

  • Klaus Voigt was awarded the National Prize III in 1987 . Class for science and technology together with Hans-Jürgen Brosin (* 1936), Wolfgang Fennel (* 1947), Eberhard Hagen (* 1944), Hans-Ulrich Lass and Wolfgang Matthäus (* 1937) from the Institute for Oceanography of the AdW of the GDR excellent for theoretical and experimental studies on physical oceanography.

Writings by and about Klaus Voigt

  • Ice observations in the Greifswalder Bodden in March 1956 . Maritime Hydrographic Service, Stralsund 1956
  • Differences in wind congestion along the south coast of the western Baltic Sea . In: Contributions to Oceanography . Founded by Erich Bruns, edited by Klaus Voigt (1979–1990) with the participation of Hans-Jürgen Brosin , Dieter Lange (publisher until 1992 with issue 63), Wolfgang Matthäus, Dietwart Nehring , Klaus Striggow u. a., Volume 6, 1962, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, pp. 55-61
  • Preliminary results of the investigations in the area of ​​the equatorial undercurrent in the Gulf of Guinea with MS (motor ship) "Professor Albrecht Penck" in the period from April to July 1964 , co-author R. Schimainda. In: Contributions to Oceanography , Issue 15, 1964, pp. 1–13
  • A contribution to the problem of the icing of our coastal waters . In: Scientific journal of the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock , Mathematical and Natural Science series; Volume 16, 1967, Issue 9/10, pp. 1211-1214
  • Preliminary results of the GATE expedition of the FS “A. v. Humboldt "" in the equatorial Atlantic in July / August 1974 , co-authors: R. Helm, H.-U. Lass, F. Möckel, M. Sturm. In: Contributions to Oceanography , Issue 37, 1976, pp. 7-27
  • Report on a colloquium for the 65th birthday of Dr. Rudolf Schemainda . In: Contributions to Oceanography , Issue 57, 1987, p. 105 f.
  • Current problems in marine research / visit to the Institute for Oceanography . In: Neue Zeit (daily newspaper), January 24, 1975, p. 5
  • Research object Baltic Sea . In: Neue Zeit (daily newspaper), September 1, 1975, p. 5; Registration with ZEFYS newspaper portal required (free of charge)!
  • There is also a weather in the oceans - international programs for the protection and exploration of the seas . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 13, 1981, p. 13; I ntervierw with Klaus Voigt and Fig.
  • Oceanographic research plan . In: Neues Deutschland , March 13, 1986, p. 6
  • Marine research internationally . In: Neues Deutschland , April 9, 1987, p. 6
  • Carpet of poisonous algae does not threaten the Baltic Sea . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 1, 1988, p. 2
  • UNESCO Conference on Ocean and Climate . In: Neue Zeit (daily newspaper), November 29, 1988, p. 1
  • How is the climate on the “water star” / Programs and projects to research the interaction between the sea and the atmosphere . In: Neues Deutschland , December 24, 1988, p. 12

literature

  • The depths of the seas - white spots on our planet . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 18, 1989, p. 12 (conversation about marine research in the series “Akademieforum” in the URANIA forum “Wilhelm Foerster” of the Berlin Planetarium with Prof. Dr. sc. Klaus Voigt, director of the Institute for Oceanography and Full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H.-J. Brosin: Klaus Voigt (1934–1995) - oceanographer and science organizer. In: Historisch-Meereskundliches Jahrbuch , Volume 12, Stralsund 2006, pp. 81-102
  2. ↑ Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , pp. 964-965.
  3. ↑ Professor at the University of Leipzig Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Walter Alfred Hesse, b. August 6, 1915 in Werdau, died December 23, 1979 in Leipzig Denomination: Protestant
  4. ↑ Horst Philipps (* 1905; † 1962), professor at the Geophysical Institute in Leipzig; Listed by name under: On the history of meteorological research at the University of Leipzig
  5. ^ Archives of the scientific staff; Prof. Dr. phil. Max Robitzsch, b. November 2, 1887 in Höxter, died June 10, 1952 in Leipzig Denomination: Protestant
  6. ↑ H.-J. Brosin: Klaus Voigt (1934–1995) - oceanographer and science organizer . In: Historisch-Meereskundliches Jahrbuch , Volume 12, Stralsund 2006, pp. (81-102) 95
  7. ↑ H.-J. Brosin: Framework conditions for marine research in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR 1945-1970. In: Historisch-Meereskundliches Jahrbuch. Volume 9, Stralsund 2002, pp. 25–40, in particular pp. 30 ff. Bruns was head of the Seehydrographischen Dienst (SHD) from January 1950 to October 1952; from October 1952 to December 1959 head of the Hydrometeorological Institute and the Institute for Oceanography of the SHD and from January 1960 to June 1965 director of the Institute for Oceanography of the German Academy of Sciences in (East) Berlin
  8. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Brosin: On the history of marine research in the GDR . Marine science reports / MARINE SCIENCE REPORTS, Warnemünde, 17 (1996), p. 141; PDF
  9. ↑ z. B. Mention of this SCOR function on the business card of the director of the Institute for Oceanography of the AdV, Klaus Voigt, in 1975
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Matthäus: The Atlantic voyage of the research ship "Professor Albrecht Penck" in 1964 to investigate the equatorial undercurrent in the eastern Atlantic. In: Historisch-Meereskundliches Jahrbuch. Volume 13, Stralsund, 2007, (63-94) p. 93 (title of doctorate B under "Literature": Voigt, K.)
  11. ↑ H.-J. Brosin: Klaus Voigt (1934–1995) - oceanographer and science organizer. In: Historisch-Meereskundliches Jahrbuch. Volume 12, Stralsund, 2006, p. 98
  12. ^ Nehring, Dietwart : On a research trip in the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic - memories of an oceanographer . Rostock 2002, p. 247; ISBN 3-933574-54-4
  13. ↑ H.-J. Brosin: Klaus Voigt (1934–1995) - oceanographer and science organizer . In: Historisch-Meereskundliches Jahrbuch, Volume 12, Stralsund 2006, pp. (81-102) 92
  14. ↑ GDR GBl. I No. 19/1984, p. 241 ff.
  15. ↑ ADN message, printed in the daily newspaper New Germany , March 13, 1986, p 6
  16. ↑ H.-J. Brosin: Klaus Voigt (1934–1995) - oceanographer and science organizer. In: Historisch-Meereskundliches Jahrbuch. Volume 12, Stralsund 2006, p. 98
  17. ↑ Meeting reports of the Leibniz-Sozietät , Volume 8, 1995, Issue 8/9, p. 135
  18. ↑ From 1994 to 2013 Professor of Physical Oceanography in Rostock, entry by "Wolfgang Fennel" in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium: accessed on March 15, 2015 and in Kürschner's Deutscher Schehrten-Kalender , 24th edition, Vol. 1 AG, ​​Berlin / Boston, 2012, p. 902; ISBN 978-3-11-023524-1
  19. ^ In: Neue Zeit (daily newspaper), October 8, 1987, p. 4; ZEFYS, archive of the Berlin State Library, accessed on March 13, 2015
  20. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Brosin, Dieter Lange. In: Contributions to Oceanography. Contributions to Marine Scientific Research , No. 63 (1992), p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oceanographer and science organizer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1995
Place of death Paris