Wolfgang Böhme (meteorologist)
Artur Wolfgang Böhme (born March 11, 1926 in Dresden ; † February 24, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German meteorologist .
Life
Wolfgang Böhme was born the son of a toolmaker. He attended the Dresden- Löbtau elementary school from 1932 to 1936 and then from 1936 to 1944 the Annenschule in Dresden. He then served in an artillery unit of the Wehrmacht during the last two years of World War II .
After doing an unskilled job, he was able to take his Abitur by 1946 . Then he got a job as an observer at the Saxon State Weather Service near Radebeul - Wahnsdorf . In 1947 he switched to the Central Meteorological Observatory in Potsdam for two years .
He began studying meteorology and geophysics at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU) in 1948 and graduated in 1953 with a diploma. Until 1958 he worked as an aspirant at the HU, in order to then receive his doctorate in 1958 as Dr. rer. nat. to get. The title of his dissertation was On the two-layer problem of atmospheric turbulence friction and the related deviations from geostrophic wind . He had been a member of the SED since 1954. From 1958 to 1966 he worked as a research assistant, department head and deputy director at the Meteorological Service, and then from 1967 to 1990 as director.
In 1970 he achieved his habilitation at the University of Rostock with the work on the approximately 2-year cycle of general circulation and its causes . A year later he was employed as an honorary professor at the HU in the subject of meteorology. In 1990 he retired.
Memberships and positions
- 1970–1990 Vice President of the Meteorological Society of the GDR
- 1974–1978 member of the COSPAR office
- 1977 corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
- 1980 full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
- 1979–1990 Head of the Rapporteur of the Commission for Atmospheric Sciences of the World Meteorological Organization for Climate Research
- 1990 leader of a group on the world climate program at the 2nd world climate conference in Geneva
- Member of the Leibniz Society
literature
- Klaus-Harro Tiemann: Boehme, Wolfgang . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Boehme, Wolfgang . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 35.
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X .
- Werner Hartkopf: The Academy of Sciences of the GDR - A contribution to their history . Berlin 1983
- Interview with Wolfgang Böhme , World Meteorological Organization Bulletin
- Karl-Heinz Bernhardt : Obituary for Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhme (PDF; 235 kB). In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin 114, 2012, pp. 195–201
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boehme, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boehme, Artur Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German meteorologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 2012 |
| Place of death | Berlin |