Physikalischer Verein
The Physikalischer Verein (Physical Society) is a organization in Frankfurt, founded in 1824 and still operating in 2022.
It was founded on 24 Oct. 1824 as a Geselllshaft fur Buldung und Wissenschaft or Society for Education and Science. In 1881 it established a meteorological committee and in 1906 the Meteorological Institute was founded. The society purchased its own free balloon in 1906 with which it carried out metteorological measurements and even flights to England. By 1909, when it participated in the first International Aviation Exhibition (ILA, Internationalen Luftschiffahrts-Ausstellung), which took place from 10 Jul.- 17 Oct. 1909 in Frankfurt), it had 12 free balloons and was providing a weather and storm warning service for airships.
This group decided in 1906 to pursue aeronautics, as an outgrowth of its meteorology section. It fielded a balloon, the Ziegler, which in 1907 made two voyages from Germany to England. The Ziegler was named in honor of the meteorological work of recently deceased member Julius Ziegler.[1][2]
The Frankfurter Verein für Luftschiffahrt emerged from these activities 1908 and continued as its own organization.
Prof. Dr. William Boller, who had directed the society's daily weather forecasts since 1881, appears to have been a founding member of the Frankfurter Verein fur Luftsschiffahrt in 1908 and served as that association's delegate to the Physikalischer Verein. Count Dr. Ferdinand von Zeppelin was an honorary member of the Physikalischer Verein.
The Physikalischer Verein was mentioned in the journal Aeronautics in 1907 as a German national aeronautic society, and was relevant to aeronautics with the establishment of its Meteorologic Institute and purchase of its first free balloon in 1906.[3]
| Organization names | Physikalischer Verein; Physical Society, Frankfort A.M., Meteorological Institute : Physikalischer Verein, Frankfurt A.M., Meteorologische Institut |
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| Entity type | club |
| Country | DE |
| City | Frankfurt-am-Main |
| Affiliated with | Frankfurter Verein für Luftschiffahrt |
| Scope | |
| Started aero | 1906 |
| Ended aero | 1 |
| Keywords | LTA |
| Key people | Kurt Wegener, A. E. Rambaldo, William Boller, Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
| Wikidata id | Q2089433 |
- Address: 33 Stifstrasse, Frankfurt am Main (1907)
References
- ↑ Publication 12515, 1908, Vom Physikalischen Verein zu Frankfurt am Main.
- ↑ See Das Klima von Frankfurt am Main; eine Zusammenstellung der wichtigsten meteorologischen Verhältnisse von Frankfurt a.M. nach vieljährigen Beobachtungen im Auftrag des Physikalischen Vereins, bearb. von Julius Ziegler and Walter König (1896) at Internet Archive.
- ↑ 1:5 Aeronautics (NYC) 43; 1:6 Aeronautics (NYC) 38 (1907); 1909 Jane's All the World's Aircraft 177; Braunbeck's Sport-Lexicon: Luftschiffahrt, 1911, 58, 141; "Dokumente aus 180 Jahren Vereinsgeschichte - Der Physikalische Verein in Frankfurt am Main," http://www.physikalischer-verein.de/historisches.htm
