Otto Meisser
Otto Meißer (born June 19, 1899 in Apolda ; † July 23, 1966 in Freiberg ) was a German geophysicist .
Life
Otto Meißer passed his Abitur at the Realgymnasium Weimar and then studied at the University of Jena . In 1923 he received his doctorate on the subject of "decrement determination using the single-spark method " and was awarded the title "magna cum laude". He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 and was SA storm leader from 1941 .
Meißer was a pioneer of applied geophysics even before the Second World War .
Meißer was a full professor for applied geophysics at the Bergakademie Freiberg , he headed the Institute for Geodynamics in Jena . What was noticeable was his great ability to identify new focal points of applied geophysical methods and to specifically entrust his young scientists with these. In this way, new methods of geophysical exploration methods were developed and qualified (e.g. tellurics or magnetotellurics ).
From 1955 to 1957 he was rector of the Bergakademie Freiberg . During the time of his rectorate, a large part of the construction of the Freiberg Bergakademie campus fell. In 1966 he was made an honorary senator of the Bergakademie. The building of the geophysical institute bears his name today: "Otto-Meißer-Bau".
Fonts
- Practical geophysics . Verlag Theodor Steinkopff Dresden and Leipzig 1943
Memberships
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin
swell
- Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of the Bergakademie Freiberg . Freiberg 1965
literature
- Gottfried Porstendorfer : Meisser, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 690 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Otto Meisser . TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2002. (Freiberg research books ; D 210) ISBN 3-86012-169-3
- Short biography for: Meisser, Otto Franz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 216.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Meißer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Otto Meißer in the Saxon Bibliography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meisser, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meisser, Otto Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Apolda |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1966 |
| Place of death | Freiberg |