Walter Stein (astronomer)

Walter Stein (born August 20, 1904 in Hamburg , † January 17, 1993 in Bremen ) was a German astronomer and navigation teacher.

biography

Stein was the son of a teacher. He attended school and grammar school in Altona and studied mathematics and physics at Kiel University . He received his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. in Kiel . He then became a teacher at the seafaring schools in Stettin and Altona. From 1930 to 1931 he undertook training trips to qualify in the areas of navigation and meteorology . As a Cape Hornier , he circumnavigated the notorious Cape Horn with a sailing ship. Then he taught at the seafaring school in Leer and in Stettin.

After the Second World War he taught at the seafaring school in Bremen . In 1952 he became the deputy head of the Upper Sea Shipping School. Even after his retirement, he held a teaching position at the now renamed University of Nautical Sciences in Bremen. As an astronomer, he was chairman of the Bremen Olbers Society for many years and then honorary chairman. He gave many lectures on astronomy in the Olbers Planetarium .

Honors

The Walter Stein observatory , a public observatory in Bremen, was named after him.

Works

• The small book of stars , Delius Klasing Verlag , Bielefeld, 15th edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-667-10361-1
• Astronomical Navigation , Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld, 3rd edition 1974, ISBN 3-87412-095-3
• Navigation made easy , Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld, 1972, ISBN 3-87412-064-3
• Co-editor of the Meldau - Steppes , Textbook of Navigation , Arthur Geist Verlag, Bremen 1958

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Stein in the catalog of the German National Library