Alois Mayr

Alois Mayr (born March 6, 1938 in Ahlen , † August 25, 2014 in Münster ) was a German geographer . Mayr taught regional geography and spatial planning at the Institute for Geography at the University of Leipzig from 1994 to 2003 and at the same time acted as director of the non-university institute for regional geography . Before that, he had been Professor of Geography and Regional Planning at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1977 . He had been a member of the Geographical Commission for Westphalia since 1982 , of which he was chairman from 1983 to 1996.

Fonts (selection)

Ahlen in Westphalia: Settlement and population of an industrial medium-sized town with special consideration of the inner-city structure (= Bochum geographical works. H. 3). Schöningh, Paderborn 1968 (dissertation).
University and city: A city, economic and socio-geographical comparison of old and new university locations in the Federal Republic of Germany (= Münstersche geographical works. H. 1). Schöningh, Paderborn 1979 (habilitation thesis).
With Heinz Heineberg : New shopping centers in the Ruhr area. Comparative analysis of planning. Equipment and use of the 21 largest shopping centers (= Münster geographical works. H. 24). Schöningh, Paderborn 1986.

With Peter Schöller : Topographic map 1: 50,000 L 4508 Essen. (Ed. by the Land Survey Office North Rhine-Westphalia, 3rd edition 1967), explained in terms of geography and didactics. In: Institute for Regional Studies in the Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Spatial Research (Ed.): Geographical-regional studies explanations for the topographic map 1: 50,000, 4th delivery, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 1970, pp. 15–32

personal data
SURNAME	Mayr, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Awls
DATE OF DEATH	August 25, 2014
Place of death	Muenster