Walter Kranzer

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Walter Kranzer (born March 7, 1912 in Vienna ; † March 25, 1988 there ) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist .

Life

He received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1934. In line with the fate of many young men of his generation, he did not return from captivity until 1946. Only after some time as a tutor he was able to gain a foothold in the school service. He initially taught at the Vienna 7 Kandlgasse Realgymnasium , and from 1956 he taught mathematics and physics at the Stubenbastei grammar school in Vienna. He had turned down a call to the IPN of the University of Kiel for family reasons.

In 1963 he founded the important Austrian teacher training magazine Wissenschaftliche Nachrichten . The section head of the Ministry of Education, Leo Leitner, characterized Kranzer there as “... a passionate operator of the concerns of a comprehensive scientific education of the young people in our schools ... already in the 1950s he (was) a committed participant in the deliberations of the 'Permanent Pedagogical Conference' (note .: in the Ministry of Education) and from the 1962 School Act in a leading role in curriculum work for physics. ... As a schoolboy and university teacher, he made a significant contribution to the foundation of didactics ... in the context of teacher training courses. ... A synopsis of the theoretical and practical ideas that Dr. Kranzer developed in a life filled with his subject and its teaching, we can see in the 'Wissenschaftliche Nachrichten', which he founded and directed until his death. "

In the first eight-page number 1 from April 1963, he wrote articles on “The Maser”, “The Mössbauer Effect”, “Structures of Proton and Neutron”, “Superconductivity”. The circle came full circle in his last contribution in the 52-page issue 77/1988 with “The development of warm superconductors” or “The core of the comet Halley”. If he wrote the first numbers on his own, from volume 5/1964 he got the chemist Edit Jarisch as a long-term reinforcement , and from volume 8/1965 from his Stubenbastei grammar school he got his colleague and geography didacticist Wolfgang Sitte . From issue 70, 1986 he brought the current editor Christian Wolny into the editorial office. In the period that followed, he and his department heads motivated countless teachers from schools and universities to write articles for this Austrian advanced training magazine, which is recognized at home and abroad and which has a circulation of 12,500 copies. Today there are parts of these articles in an online archive at the University of Vienna or the journal Wissenschaftliche Nachrichten is online today.

Publications

  • Physics is that interesting. Aulis Verlag Deubner & Co., Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7614-0653-3 .
  • Perfection and information in math lessons. oemg.ac.at -Didaktikhefte H. 12 Teacher Training Conference 1985
  • with G. Fuchs and E. Jarosch: Atomic threat to humanity. The nuclear war in the judgment of science. Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1968.
  • That's how interesting math is. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-326-00362-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To reduce the four-dimensional number grid. Dissertation . Univie 1934.
  2. ^ From Wagner K. Obituary in Wissenschaftliche Nachrichten. H. 77, April 1988.
  3. ↑ Star evolution - manuscript for the physical exercises at BG Wien 1 in the 1974/75 school year
  4. ↑ Wissenschaftliche Nachrichten, vol. 77, April 1988.
  5. ↑ worked in the Wissenschaftliche Nachrichten up to issue 114, April 2000 - there also obituary on p. 17.
  6. ↑ worked in Wissenschaftliche Nachrichten up to issue 131, April 2006 - there also obituary on p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Kranzer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1988
Place of death Vienna