Richard Schorr

Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr (20 August 1867, Kassel – 21 September 1951, Badgastein, Salzburg), was a German astronomer, who served as the director of the Hamburger Stemwarte at the end of the 19th century.

The former director George Rümker had started the movement of the observatory to the outer parts of Hamburg but became seriously ill and died in 1899.

After measuring the plates Schorr and the Danish astronomer Holger Thiele used them too for searching and position determination of comets and asteroids.

His first choice candidate as his follower was Walter Baade who refused because of better astronomical working conditions at the Californian Mt.

[citation needed] Inspite of the wishes of Nazi organisations Schorr could call Otto Heckmann as his follower in 1941.