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Weather Park Team: Weather Park Guides

Competent, entertaining and always open to all questions about the weather: The Weather Park team includes the Weather Park Guides, who offer various themed tours.

This page introduces the team of Weather Park Guides. The guides are active and former employees of the German Weather Service. With specialist knowledge and enthusiasm, they bring visitors of all ages closer to the topics of weather and climate. They conduct public and individual tours, give specialist lectures, lead workshops and organize activities for children, such as children's birthday parties or rallies for school classes.
The tours cover a broad spectrum: from climate change and its causes to measuring and observing the weather and phenomena such as tornadoes.
The team also offers special guided tours to make weather phenomena accessible to blind and visually impaired people. These contain detailed descriptions of the exhibits and additional tactile elements.

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    Weather park guide Alfons Beffert

    "After working as a qualified meteorologist at the DWD, I have been guiding school and adult groups through the weather park since 2008. My specialty: guided tours in French."
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    Weather Park Guide Andreas Friedrich

    "After working for the German Weather Service for many years as a press spokesperson and tornado officer, I have been an active member of the Weather Park Guides team since 2023."
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    Weather Park Guide Detlev Majewski

    "After 40 years in research at the German Weather Service, I really enjoy explaining the weather and climate to groups of visitors at the Weather Park in a generally understandable scientific way."
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    Weather Park Guide Dorothea Paetzold

    "Adults learn a lot about medical meteorology from me - a special field that involves much more than just weather sensitivity."
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    Weather park guide Ekko Bruns

    Ekko Bruns has never worked in his profession as an aviation weather consultant, instead he is fascinated by "phenology". His guided tours focus on the influence of the weather on nature and people.
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    Weather park guide Gerhard Lux

    "I'm a meteorologist by training and in my job as press spokesperson for the DWD, I was involved in the scientific conception and construction of the weather park."
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    Weather Park Guide Klaus Bähnke

    "In 2020, I decided to become actively involved in the Wetterpark. Since then, I've been available as a Wetterpark tour guide for adult and children's tours."
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    Weather Park Guide Mara Gehlen

    Graduate meteorologist Mara Gehlen particularly enjoys teaching children about the weather.
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    Weather park guide Michael Goesch

    "I've been guiding groups through the weather park as a weather guide since 2008. My main topics are climate history, tsunamis and monster waves."
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    Weather Park Guide Rüdiger Seidel

    "Since 2005, I have been explaining the fascinating background and phenomena of meteorological events to visitors to the Weather Park and carrying out interesting and illustrative experiments."
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    Weather park guide Susy Bütof

    Since the Weather Park opened in 2005, Susy Bütof has been sharing her fascination for the peculiarities of the weather with visitors to the Weather Park.
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    Weather park guide Tobias Reinartz

    "As an employee in the DWD's forecasting and advisory center, I am particularly enthusiastic about thunderstorms and tornadoes."
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    Weather park guide Ulrich Biermann

    "As a former DWD employee, I have been guiding adult schoolchildren and children's groups through the weather park as a weather park tour guide since 2012."

Excerpts from specialist presentations on various facets of the weather

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    Seven short videos about the weather

    Seven weather park guides explain various facets of the weather and its phenomena in a lively and understandable way. The videos were produced in 2024 to mark the 10th anniversary of the visitor center.

Wetterpark Offenbach

Am Wetterpark 15
63071 Offenbach

Opening hours

The weather park is open all year round.
Admission is free.

Opening hours of the visitor center, prices for guided tours and further information: Visit, prices and contact

Book workshops, lectures or guided tours: Click here for the registration form

The Weather Park can be reached by bus lines 101, 106, 107 and 108.

The weather park and its visitor center are joint projects of the city of Offenbach, the German Weather Service and the RhineMain Regional Park.

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