Wilhelm Peppler

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Wilhelm Peppler (born January 21, 1884 in Grünberg , Hessen ; † June 6, 1961 in Friedrichshafen ) was a German meteorologist.

Live and act

Wilhelm Peppler began studying natural sciences in 1903 at the University of Giessen , which he completed in 1909 with the state examination for higher teaching qualifications. As a student he set up the Hessian State Weather Service together with his older brother Albert . After completing his studies, he was assistant to the geophysicist and meteorologist Franz Linke at the meteorological-physical institute at the University of Frankfurt . From 1910 to 1911 Peppler headed the Hessian Agricultural Weather Service at the University of Giessen; then until 1919 he was Richard Assmann's scientific assistant in the Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory of the Prussian Aeronautical Institute. During the First World War, he set up two kite stations in Flanders ( Bredene and Sint-Michiels ) for the Navy . After his habilitation in the subject of meteorology in Gießen, he took over the management of the kite station on Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen from Ernst Kleinschmidt in 1925, a weather station prepared by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and Hugo Hergesell and set up in 1908 by the Kingdom of Württemberg, whose weather data is preferably from kites or balloons from Research vessel Gna were raised from. Peppler expanded the kite station into the "Aerological Observatory Friedrichshafen" (since 1933). The research facilities were seriously damaged in the air raid on Friedrichshafen on April 28, 1944, whereupon Peppler moved them to Buchau . After the end of the war, he headed the German Meteorological Service in the French occupation zone , and from 1949 until his retirement in 1953, he headed the Württemberg-Hohenzollern regional weather service . Peppler belonged to the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , on whose board he represented the state of Württemberg from 1939 to 1957.

Fonts (selection)

  • The scientific work of the kite station on Lake Constance. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 60, 1932/33, pp. 143-153. Digitized
  • Results of the multi-year measurements of the local brightness at Lake Constance. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 57, 1929, pp. 157-190. Digitized
  • The foehn in the Lake Constance area after the aerological observations of the kite station. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 54, 1926, pp. 334-350. Digitized

literature

  • Eduard Huss: Wilhelm Peppler * 21. 1. 1884 in Grünberg, Hessen, † 6. 6. 1961 in Friedrichshafen. In: Contributions to the physics of the atmosphere. Volume 34, 1961, pp. 155-157.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Peppler: The observations of the marine kite stations Breedene / Meer and St. Michel near Bruges in the years 1915–1918. Hammerich & Lesser, Altona, 1920.
  2. ^ Ernst Kleinschmidt: The kite station on Lake Constance. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 49, 1921, pp. 27-33. Digitized .
  3. ↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302, here p. 221. ISBN 978-3-7995-1725-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Peppler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünberg , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1961
Place of death Friedrichshafen