Wilhelm Finke

Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Finke (born June 20, 1884 in Bremen , † November 7, 1950 in Bremen) was a German educator , physicist and astronomer .

biography

education and profession

Finke began an apprenticeship in a bank in 1903, which he left after six months to study mathematics and natural sciences in Heidelberg . In 1906 he continued his studies in Göttingen . In 1909 he received his doctorate magna cum laude with Woldemar Voigt . From 1910 until his retirement in 1948, he taught and worked as a teacher at the New Gymnasium in Bremen, parallel to which he worked as an astronomer, scientist and inventor. During the First World War he took part in the campaigns in France, Flanders and Russia.

Services

In 1920 he founded the Olbers Society together with others interested in astronomy . In 1924 the association was able to inaugurate the first observatory.
He developed a technical draft for the projection of the starry sky . On October 9, 1919, he received the first patent for a planetarium projection. The further development of the first planetarium in the German Museum in Munich was then carried out by the Carl Zeiss company .
He has been granted patents for an astro-projection device for teaching purposes, for a crystallization device, a field protractor and measuring table for teaching purposes.

Works

Dissertation: Magnetic measurements on platinum metals and monoclinic crystals , 1909, Göttingen.
Further works in: J. Ch. Poggendorff, Biogr.-lit. Concise dictionary of the exact natural sciences, Volume 7a, 1958, p. 42.

literature

• Aribert Egen: Finke, Karl Heinrich Wilhelm. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 149 (column 1) to p. 150 (column 1).

Web links

• Publications by W. Finke in the Astrophysics Data System