Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs

Eva Ahnert - Rohlfs ( born Rohlfs, born August 11, 1912 in Coburg, † March 9, 1954 in Sonneberg ) was a German astronomer.

Eva Rohlfs grew up in the former residence Thuringian town of Coburg. After high school she studied from 1931 to 1933 in Würzburg, Munich and Kiel. After a long break she took during the Second World War her studies at the University of Göttingen in 1942 again. In 1945, she was a research assistant at the Sonneberg Observatory, where not only the starry heavens, but also only 25 kilometers distant Veste Coburg is good to watch. As an assistant Cuno Hoffmeister, director of the observatory and also a professor at Jena, was she completed her doctorate in 1951 at the Friedrich Schiller University in the field of astrophysics. In 1952 she married Paul Ahnert, who also worked as an astronomer in Sonneberg. The success of their scientific work and their personal happiness was clouded by the German division solidifying. The lying within sight of Sonneberg hometown Coburg had become unattainable for them in the early 1950s. Eva Ahnert - Rohlfs died at age 42 from the effects of unhappy verlaufenen birth.

Writings

• Radiation pressure, Poynting - Robertson effect and interstellar matter. Communication from the Sonneberg Observatory 43, 1953.
• Preliminary communication on tests for the detection of meteoritic dust. Communication from the Sonneberg Observatory 45th 1954.
• On the structure of the origin of Perseidenstroms. Publication of the Sonneberg Observatory 2nd 1956, pp. 5-38.