Paul Raethjen

Paul Ernst Günther Siegmund Raethjen (born April 11, 1896 in Bollendorf, East Prussia , † March 31, 1982 in Ahrensburg ) was a German meteorologist , physicist and university professor .

Life

Family and education

The Lutheran baptized, was born in East Prussia Paul Raethjen, son of farmer Ernst Raethjen and his spouse Else born Kramer, turned to the High School to the study of natural sciences , especially of meteorology at the University of Königsberg and the study of physics at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen to 1924 took place in Königsberg his promotion to Dr. phil.

Paul Raethjen was married to Else, born Sattler. There were four children from this marriage. Paul Raethjen died in March 1982 a few weeks before he was 86 years old in Ahrensburg.

Professional background

Immediately after completing his studies, Raethjen took up a position as a scientific assistant at the Meteorological Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , and in 1925 he switched to the soaring research institute of the Rhön-Rossitten-Gesellschaft on the Wasserkuppe , the highest mountain in the Rhön , as a department head . In 1929 he took over the management of the weather flight stations in Darmstadt and Königsberg , where he completed his habilitation in 1931 as a private lecturer in meteorology. In 1934 he followed a call to the full professorship for meteorology at the University of Hamburg . Paul Raethjen, who was also the director of the Geophysical Institute there, retired in 1964 .

The proven expert in his field, discoverer and describer of atmospheric phenomena, including tropopause circulation, wedge insertion cyclogenesis and the monotropy coefficient, was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1941 .

Publications

• Horizontal density fields: Dynamics of the "horizontal" density field, Hamburg, 1938
• Introduction to the physics of the atmosphere, Volume 1. Statics and Thermodynamics, Teubner, Leipzig, 1942
• Introduction to the physics of the atmosphere, Volume 2. Meteorological Aerodynamics, Teubner, Leipzig, 1942
• Brief outline of the meteorology seen dynamically, Wolfenbütteler Verlagsanstalt, Wolfenbüttel, 1947–54
• Dynamics of the cyclones, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 1953
• Frontal Cyclogenesis, self-published, Hamburg, 1954
• Dynamic model meteorology = Dynamics of atmospheric models, de Gruyter, Hamburg, Berlin, 1970

literature

• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who, Volume 16 ,, Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1008.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , p. 3027.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 8, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . P. 122.

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Raethjen in the catalog of the German National Library