Anneliese Krenzlin

Anneliese Krenzlin (born September 26, 1903 in Arnsberg , † March 7, 1993 in Kelkheim ) was a German human geographer .

Anneliese Krenzlin graduated from high school in Berlin in 1924 and began studying geography, German literature and history at the universities of Freiburg , Kiel and Berlin that same year . In 1930 she received her doctorate in Berlin with the thesis examined by Norbert Krebs The cultural landscape of the Hanoverian Wendland , in 1932 she passed her state examination and then did her legal clerkship in Berlin until 1934. In 1934 Krenzlin passed her assessor examination and was then a study assessor at various schools in Berlin. In 1936 she received a scholarship from the Research Foundation for German Sciences, 1939 research assistant and 1946 research officer at the Geographical Institute of Berlin University. In 1947 she became a research assistant at the main administration for agriculture and forestry in Berlin. In the following year she switched to the University of Rostock as a research assistant with a teaching position , and in 1951 she became a lecturer in geography. The habilitation took place in 1950 with the thesis village, field and economy in the area of ​​the great valleys and plateaus east of the Elbe . In 1953 she left the Rostock University and went to Frankfurt am Main in 1953. In 1956 Krenzlin became an extraordinary professor of geography at the University of Frankfurt am Main , and in 1960 a full professor , thus becoming the first professor of geography in the Federal Republic of Germany. She remained in that position until her retirement in 1971.

In 1971, when Krenzlin left active university service, she was awarded the Robert Gradmann Medal for special services in the field of settlement geography, and she also became an honorary member of the Historical Commission in Berlin and honorary chairman of the Frankfurt Geographical Society . The Mark Brandenburg took a special focus in her work . Her research on the forms of settlement in Brandenburg , especially the forms of villages , were fundamental and trend-setting. In these questions she is still considered the "classic".

Krenzlin was buried on March 12, 1993 in the main cemetery in Kelkheim im Taunus.

Fonts

• Historical and economic features in the form of settlement in western East Germany with special consideration of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony , Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1955 (Frankfurter geographische Hefte, year 27/29 1955)
• The agricultural landscape on the northern border of settlement in intermontane British Columbia , Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1965 (Frankfurter geographische Hefte, Heft 40)
• The forms of settlement of the province of Brandenburg , Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7678-0590-1 (Historical Atlas of Brandenburg, NF, delivery 2; publications of the Historical Commission of Berlin)
• Contributions to the genesis of cultural landscapes in Central Europe. Collected essays from four decades (edited by Hans-Jürgen Nitz and Heinz Quirin), Wiesbaden 1983.

literature

• Werner Fricke: Anneliese Krenzlin - career and life's work . In: Hans-Friedrich Kniehase: Das Rundplatzdorf . Slavic-German settlement genesis in Altmark, Havelland and Oderbruch . Scharbeutz 2005, ISBN 3-9805557-1-2 (Siedlungsgeographische Studien, Volume 2) pp. 193-201.
• Werner Fricke and K. Wolf (editors): New ways in the research of urban and rural settlements. Festschrift for Anneliese Krenzlin on her 70th birthday , Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1975. (Rhein-Mainische Forschungen, issue 80)

Web links

• Literature by and about Anneliese Krenzlin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Anneliese Krenzlin in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Anneliese Krenzlin in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium