Otto Freybe

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Otto Freybe (born September 25, 1865 in Nordhausen , † September 17, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German meteorologist .

Life

The son of a bookbinder studied natural sciences in Halle an der Saale and Berlin and started teaching. In 1892 he worked at a grammar school in Rudolstadt and in 1896 switched to the agricultural school in Weilburg . In addition to his teaching activities, he founded the Weilburg weather service in 1900 with the aim of creating weather maps and forecasts in such a way that they could reach subscribers on the same day. Freybe achieved this by restricting it to a small delivery area, creating the weather maps using a simple printing process in the shortest possible time and sending them quickly on the next train. In doing so, he created important foundations for the North German Weather Service of the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, founded in 1906 .

Freybe developed textbooks and held courses in practical meteorology with Richard Börnstein at the Agricultural University in Berlin . In 1910 he received the title of professor. In the First World War Freybe was the Marine Weather Service in Liepaja used, where he met the meteorologist Richard Hennig worked

In 1921 he was at the University of Marburg with a thesis about Marburg weather in comparison with the weather conditions of the surrounding mountain landscape doctorate . In 1923 Freybe became head of the Prussian Meteorological Institute with the incorporation of the Berlin Weather Service , but died that same year. Willi König was his successor .

Otto Freybe's grave is in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Publications (selection)

  • Brief instructions on the use of weather maps , Berlin 1907
  • Climate and weather studies , Hanover 1908
  • Weather map atlas, a methodically organized collection of weather maps with explanatory text , Berlin 1912
  • Instructions for using the weather maps , Berlin 1913
  • Method of meteorological instruction , Berlin 1915 (2nd edition 1922)
  • Chemistry for agr. Schools , 3rd edition, Berlin 1922
  • School meteorology , Berlin 1922
  • Practical meteorology: a commonly understood guide to using weather maps in connection with local weather observations , 2nd edition, Berlin 1922
  • How our home in Weilburg came into being , Weilburg in 1922
  • Marburg's weather in comparison with the weather conditions of the surrounding mountain landscape, based on 50 years of observations (diss.), Berlin 1922

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Peppler : Professor Dr. Otto Freybe passed away. In: Das Wetter, monthly journal for weather studies , 40th year 1923, p. 98 ff.
  2. ^ Heinrich von Ficker : Professor Dr. Otto Freybe passed away. In: Meteorologische Zeitschrift , 40th year, December 1923, p. 368 f.
  3. ^ Richard Hennig dedicated his book Practical Weather Rules for Everyone (1921) to "Professor Otto Freybe (Weilburg), his 'good comrade' in Libau 1916-1918".

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personal data
SURNAME Freybe, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1923
Place of death Berlin