Bruno Benthien

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Bruno Benthien (born April 12, 1930 in Schwerin ; † November 5, 2015 in Greifswald ) was a German geographer and Minister for Tourism of the GDR from 1989 to 1990 .

Life

After attending the Goethe High School in Schwerin and graduating from high school , Benthien studied geography , English and pedagogy at the University of Rostock from 1949 to 1952 and geography at the University of Greifswald in 1952/53 with a degree in geography . He then worked as an assistant (1953-1958), senior assistant (until 1959), lecturer (until 1962) and professor at the University of Greifswald and published on historical land forms, population and settlement geography. In 1955 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer nat. with the work “The Lewitz . Physical geography of a Mecklenburg individual landscape ” and in 1968 the habilitation with the thesis “ The historical corridors of south-western Mecklenburg. A study on the problem of village, field and economy, at the same time a contribution to the development history of the village settlements in the Schwerin district ”. From 1968 to 1983 Benthien headed the Geographical Institute at Greifswald University.

Benthien joined the FDJ in 1948 and became a member of the LDPD in 1962 . 1968–1971 he was deputy chairman and 1980–1984 chairman of the LDPD district association Greifswald. 1963-1976 he was a member of the Rostock district assembly, then until 1990 a member of the People's Chamber. In 1990 he joined the FDP .

From November 1989 to April 1990, Benthien was Minister of Tourism in the Modrow government , then Secretary of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Tourism. Afterwards he taught again at the University of Greifswald.

Benthien was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation from 1991 to 2008 .

Among other things, he was awarded the Labor Banner , the GDR Medal of Merit and the Pestalozzi Medal for loyal service .

Benthien died at the age of 85 and was buried in the New Cemetery in Greifswald .

Publications (selection)

  • Schwerin and the surrounding area . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1958.
  • The historical corridor forms of southwest Mecklenburg . Schwerin 1960.
  • Economic structural changes in the north of the German Democratic Republic. Ceremonial address on October 7, 1965 . Greifswald 1966.
  • Greifswald and its surroundings. Results of the local history inventory in the area south of the Greifswald Bodden . Berlin 1968.
  • Introduction to population and settlement geography (with Egon Weber and Alfred von Känel). Haack, Gotha 1986, ISBN 3-73010-503-5 .
  • Recreational geography . Haack, Gotha 1990, ISBN 3-73010-866-2 .
  • GDR. Economic and Social Geography . Haack, Gotha 1990.
  • Geography of recreation and tourism . Haack, Gotha 1997, ISBN 3-62300-845-1 .
  • Life on the Baltic coast. Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Photographs from the past . Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1997, ISBN 3-86134-279-0 .
  • A tour through the old Greifswald . Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1999, ISBN 3-86134-582-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , November 10, 2015, accessed on November 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Benthien, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer, politician (LDPD, FDP), MdV and tourism minister of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2015
Place of death Greifswald , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany