Reich Office for Weather Service

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The Reichsamt für Wetterdienst ( RfW ), officially "Reichswetterdienst", was founded in Berlin in 1934 and was subordinate to the Reich Ministry of Aviation .

Head of the Reich Office was Ludwig Weickmann . The meteorologist Richard Habermehl was also instrumental in establishing the office. The office directed and coordinated the tasks of the Reich Weather Service, which primarily had observation and auxiliary tasks for aviation. Most of the observation posts were positioned at airports. A network of 5000 observation stations for phenological research was also set up and related publications were issued. The head of this service was Fritz Schnelle, who performed this task at the German Weather Service (DWD) after the end of World War II . Albert Baumgartner also switched from the Reich Office to the DWD .

The publications included the frequency tables of flight meteorological observations (Germany) , which were published in 1938 by Walter de Gruyter . They were marked for official use only . The meteorologist and polar researcher Max Robitzsch headed various departments of the Reich Office from 1935 and became director in 1942.

The Reich Office were under the Sonneberg Observatory , the Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg and the Meteorological Observatory Hohenpeissenberg .

From 1939 to 1945 the school of the Reich Weather Service was domiciled in the buildings of Berlin-Tempelhof Airport .

The Reich Weather Service, the Marine Weather Service and the Army Weather Service existed until 1945.

literature

  • Meyers Lexikon , vol. 9, 8th edition Leipzig 1942, col. 189.
  • Reichsamt für Wetterdienst: Instructions for observers at the weather observation offices of the Reich Weather Service . Edition for the climate service. 3rd edition (unconditional reprint of 2nd edition). Springer, Berlin 1940.
  • German Weather Service DWD: Meteorological training. H. 1/2, 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Promet, Volume 33, Edition 1/2 2007, p. 4  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 7.2 MB), read July 21, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dmg-ev.de  
  2. ^ [1] Smithsonian Institution
  3. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp 59-60 , accessed on 3 July of 2019.
  4. ^ Walter Vogel: West Germany 1945–1950. The establishment of constitutional and administrative institutions over the countries of the three western zones of occupation. Part 3. Individual branches of administration: finance, post and transport, labor and social affairs, refugees, tracing service and prisoners of war, justice, home affairs. Writings of the Federal Archives 32. Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein, 1983. p. 245.