Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
It is a good tradition in IAU Symposia about PN to have a paper on model atmospheres. However, this is always a difficult task for the authors, because the majority of the PN researchers still believe that the best model atmosphere for a Central Star is a black body. Of course, this puts a theorist in stellar atmospheres into a somewhat desperate position. However, Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae (hereafter CSPN) - as all other stars - show spectral lines. And we will try to use the opportunity of this paper to convince that - as for all other stars - the quantitative analysis of these lines on basis of model atmospheres yields extremely valuable information about the physical nature of the stars.