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Rupert Holzapfel (center) with Fritz Loewe (left) and Bernhard Brockamp on the Wegener expedition

Rupert Holzapfel (born April 22, 1905 in Krems an der Donau , Lower Austria ; † June 6, 1960 in Unterach am Attersee , Upper Austria ) was a German-Austrian meteorologist and Arctic researcher. He took part in several expeditions that took him to Greenland and Afghanistan .

Life

Rupert Holzapfel's family came from the Wachau , and this branch goes back to Elias Holzapfel, who lived as a farmer in Lobendorf near Großheinrichschlag in the municipality of Weinzierl am Walde from 1661 to 1726 and was buried in St. Johann. He was the eldest son (of four siblings) of a middle school teacher, attended school in Krems ( Matura 1924) and studied physics and meteorology at the University of Vienna . There he graduated from Dr. phil. from. He was a scientific assistant at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna and carried out solar observations at the mountain stations Hochobir , Stolzalpe and Kanzelhöhe . With Alfred Wegener he was on the expedition to Greenland from 1930 to 1931 and was in charge of the western station “Scheideck”. He was there when Wegener, who had died on the way back from the trip to Eismitte , was found in the spring of 1931.

After further assistantship at the Physics Institute in Vienna, Holzapfel completed his habilitation in 1935 at the Meteorological Institute in Jena and in 1936 went to the German Reich Weather Service . 1936–1937 he was on an expedition to Afghanistan in order to carry out meteorological observations on the Anjuman Pass in the Hindu Kush at an altitude of 4000 m in order to develop Lufthansa’s air traffic to the Far East. Holzapfel was then entrusted again in the Reich Weather Service and at the observatory in Lindenberg with the evaluation of meteorological height measurements through balloon ascents. Alfred Wegener himself became an assistant in Lindenberg in 1905.

Holzapfel married in 1934 in Haderslev , Denmark, the daughter of the Danish monastery administrator (roughly regional president ) Christian Ludvig Lundbye , Else Lundbye (* 1909; † 2006). The marriage resulted in two sons: the physicist Christian Holzapfel (* 1937) and the song researcher and folklorist Otto Holzapfel (* 1941).

From 1940 to early 1945, Holzapfel was with the Air Force in Norway a. a. with the weather ship Sachsen off the East Greenland coast and as a weather flyer in the north to over Spitzbergen , Jan Mayen and Nowaja Zemlya . At the end of the Second World War , he was in charge of the arctic training for meteorological missions on the arctic arctic weather stations of the air force in southern Norway .

Rupert Holzapfel helped rebuild the weather service in the American zone in Bad Kissingen . In 1957 he moved with this to Offenbach am Main in the newly created Central Office of the German Weather Service .

Major works

  • Results of radiation and polarization measurements on the Hochobir in the summer of 1927 . In: Session reports of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, mathematical and natural science class , vol. 138, 1929, issue 1–2.
  • Meteorological work on the west station . In: Else Wegener: Alfred Wegener's last Greenland trip: The experiences of the German Greenland expedition 1930/1931 [...]. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1932.
  • The activities of the German Air Force Weather Service in the Arctic during the war . In: Reports of the German Weather Service in the US Zone , Vol. 12, Bad Kissingen 1949.
  • Results of aerological observations in Germany I-III , Bad Kissingen 1956 = Reports of the German Weather Service, Vol. 27.
  • Results of aerological observations in Germany IV-IX , Offenbach am Main 1960 = Reports of the German Weather Service, Vol. 68.

literature

  • Carl Keil:  Holzapfel Rupert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 570 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Selinger: From »Nanok« to »Eismitte«. Meteorological ventures in the Arctic 1940–1945 . Bremerhaven 2001 (= publications of the German Maritime Museum, vol. 53).
  • Wilhelm Dege: Trapped in the arctic ice. Weather troop "Haudegen" - the last German Arctic station of the Second World War . Hamburg 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family history "Holzapfel" incorporated into Geneanet , publicly accessible after registration under "oholzapfel" and the corresponding persons.
  2. ^ German Greenland Expedition Alfred Wegener I. – III. Part . Supplements from the Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education (FWU) F 227 AC. Dümmler, Bonn 1948–1949 [film excerpts from the pre-expedition of 1929 and the expedition itself, 1930–1931, mostly recorded by Johannes Georgi , compiled and commented in 1939].
  3. ^ Weather fliers in the Arctic. War experiences of the pilot Rudolf Schütze . Edited and edited by Dr. Werner Schwerdtfeger. German publisher “El Buen Libro”, Buenos Aires 1950 [Holzapfel mentioned several times].
personal data
SURNAME Crab apple, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Krems at the Donau
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1960
Place of death Unterach am Attersee