Willi König (meteorologist)

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Willi König (born November 2, 1884 in Veßra Abbey near Schleusingen , † October 31, 1955 in Berlin ) was a German meteorologist .

Life

The son of an elementary school teacher studied physics and geography in Marburg , Leipzig and Berlin from 1903 . In Berlin, as a pupil of Gustav Hellmann , he mainly dealt with meteorology and received his doctorate in 1909 with studies on the dry and hot summer of 1904 .

From 1910 to 1935, König worked at the Prussian Meteorological Institute , with interruptions due to military service in the First World War . Initially as a scientific assistant, he devoted himself to researching particular weather phenomena with the help of synoptic methods . König developed a new method for daily weather forecasting, using Vilhelm Bjerknes ' polar front theory .

Grave in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf

In 1923 he became head of the weather department and in 1927 head of department and professor at the Prussian Meteorological Institute. As head of the German Weather Service , König also dealt with issues of climate research. In a newspaper article in 1927, he vehemently denied the question of whether the mild winters of previous years could be an indication of long-term climate change.

From 1931 to 1935, König taught as an honorary professor at the University of Berlin , until in 1935 he moved to the Deutsche Seewarte in Hamburg as head of the meteorological department . After working at the Technical University of Dresden and as chief meteorologist in Munich , he took over the management of the Berlin Weather Service School in 1940.

After the Second World War , he became a professor at Berlin University and, from 1950, he was also head of the Central Meteorological Observatory on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam . From 1953 until his death, König was also deputy head of the Meteorological Service in the GDR .

From 1950 to 1953 Willi König was editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift für Meteorologie .

His grave is on the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Publications

  • About thunderstorm forecast in northern Germany. , 1919
  • On the precipitation of the Vb depressions , 1926, 1928
  • Principles of Meteorology , Leipzig 1927, 2nd edition 1953
  • List of weather events in Germany dealt with in the specialist literature in the period 1901-1940 , Berlin 1950
  • Directory of summarizing works on weather and weather in Germany , Berlin 1950

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personal data
SURNAME King, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Veßra Abbey near Schleusingen
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1955
Place of death Berlin