Richard Habermehl

Richard Habermehl (born November 19, 1890 in Lauter , Hesse; † April 5, 1980 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German meteorologist .

Life

During his studies, Habermehl became a member of the Germania Gießen fraternity in 1909 . From June 1912 to January 1914 he was an assistant at the Meteorological Geophysical Institute in Frankfurt. After that he was briefly a consulting meteorologist for Deutsche Luftschiff AG in Frankfurt and from April 1914 to May 1915 with Army Aviation Berlin.

From the end of 1918 to mid-1920 he was in the Hessian school service and then a teacher of meteorology until mid-1928, where he was a teacher at the artillery school and head of the Jüterbog weather and kite station from the beginning of 1921.

From mid-1928 to mid-1933 he was assistant officer for meteorology in the Reich Ministry of Economics , since April 1933 as a senior government councilor. From May 1933 to July 1939 he was a consultant for meteorology and head of department in the Reich Ministry of Aviation and in the Reich Office for Weather Service , which he played a key role in building. In December 1934 he became Ministerialrat and from August 1939 to April 1945 he was president of this "Reich Weather Service".

In May 1948 he was released from captivity. After a deputy post he was head of the weather office in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse from April 1949 to October 1951 and then until November 1952 department head at the central office of the DWD in Bad Kissingen . Afterwards he was temporarily seconded to the central office in Frankfurt and to the Freiburg weather department before he retired in February 1954.

In recognition of his support for the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 , the Habermehl summit in Neuschwabenland was named after him.

Individual evidence

↑ Footnote in: Walter Vogel: Westdeutschland 1945–1950. 3. Individual branches of administration ; P. 251
↑ http://www.geocities.ws/orion47.geo/WEHRMACHT/LUFTWAFFE/Beamten/HABERMEHL_RICHARD.html
^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, R. Germania. No. 567.
↑ This is the official name of the office. Habermehl's title is NS-compliant: "Chief Reich Weather Service"; the office of this name emerged on November 28, 1934 from the Reichsamt für Flugsicherung . Source: Cornelia Lüdecke: Resistance in difficult times - Schmauß era (1923–1954) in Munich (PDF; 168 kB). In: Annalen der Meteorologie 43, 2008, pp. 66–78.
^ Institute for Applied Geodesy (Ed.): Directory of German-speaking geographical names in the Antarctic Archived from the original on January 23, 2009. In: News from the mapping and surveying system . Special issue, 1993, pp. 1-30. Retrieved May 10, 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Habermehl, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lauter , Hessen
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1980
Place of death	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

[1] Footnote in: Walter Vogel: Westdeutschland 1945–1950. 3. Individual branches of administration ; P. 251

[2] ttp://www.geocities.ws/orion47.geo/WEHRMACHT/LUFTWAFFE/Beamten/HABERMEHL_RICHARD.html

[3] Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, R. Germania. No. 567.

[4] This is the official name of the office. Habermehl's title is NS-compliant: "Chief Reich Weather Service"; the office of this name emerged on November 28, 1934 from the Reichsamt für Flugsicherung . Source: Cornelia Lüdecke: Resistance in difficult times - Schmauß era (1923–1954) in Munich (PDF; 168 kB). In: Annalen der Meteorologie 43, 2008, pp. 66–78.

[5] Institute for Applied Geodesy (Ed.): Directory of German-speaking geographical names in the Antarctic Archived from the original on January 23, 2009. In: News from the mapping and surveying system . Special issue, 1993, pp. 1-30. Retrieved May 10, 2010.