Prussian Geodetic Institute
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| Consist | 1917 - 1945 | ||
| Arose from | Royal Prussian Geodetic Institute | ||
| Incorporated into | Geodetic Institute Potsdam | ||
| Headquarters | Potsdam | ||
| president | from 1917 Louis Krüger from 1922 Ernst Kohlschütter from 1936 Otto Eggert from 1939 Heinz Schmehl |
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The Prussian Geodetic Institute was subordinate to the Ministry of Culture in the Free State of Prussia .
As a result of the World War, the institute had to close the central office of the international earth survey . Germany was prohibited from participating in international scientific associations under the Treaty of Versailles. This organizational work was carried out from then on by the International Geodetic Society , which later became one of the two sections of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) based in Paris as the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) .
Since the land surveying in the Free State was the task of the civil Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme , which had arisen from the reorganization of the military Prussian land registry, the institute now increasingly turned to scientific research on astronomy and geophysics (gravimetry).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Free life, Hans Christian: Kohlschütter, Ernst. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 12. 1979, p. 432 [online version] , accessed on February 24, 2016 .
- ^ Heinz Kautzleben : About the Geodetic Institute Potsdam. (PDF) In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. Volume 119. 2014, pp. 176 ff. (155 ff.) , Archived from the original on February 24, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2014 (17 MB; was originally available as poster 4 in the short report on the honorary colloquium on the occasion of the 80th birthday of MLS Helmut Moritz ; the short report posters are offline).