Bruno Plaetschke

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Bruno Plaetschke (born October 18, 1897 in Kampen, Strehlen district , † April 13, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German ethnologist and geographer .

biography

Plaetschke came from a Lower Silesian farming family. After attending grammar school in Strehlen, he joined the army as a volunteer in 1914. Participated in the German expedition to Transcaucasia in 1918, then officer in the Georgian army until 1920 .

After his return, Plaetschke was a member of the voluntary corps in his home district in 1921. Later took part in the fighting of the Upper Silesian self-protection against Poland and was wounded on Annaberg.

Plaetschke studied economics, geography, geology, Slavic and oriental studies in Breslau , Vienna and Königsberg . He received his doctorate in Königsberg in 1929 and was then an assistant at the Institute of Geography until 1936. In 1935 his habilitation followed, after which Plaetschke was employed as a lecturer.

In the 1920s and 1930s Plaetschke undertook several research trips through various parts of Asia and the Caucasus , including the North Caucasus (1918–20, 1927/28), Manchuria and northeastern Mongolia (1931/32). His book on Chechnya is still considered a standard work today.

As part of the scientific and political elaboration of the Polish topics , Plaetschke was called in alongside Werner Conze as an expert for "Belarusian questions".

After the beginning of the Second World War as captain d. R. called up, Plaetschke suffered severe illness on the Eastern Front and was released from duty due to illness. As a result, he died in a Berlin hospital.

Publications

  • On cultural life in the small autonomous regions of the North Caucasus // Eastern Europe 10 (1928). Pp. 689-697.
  • The Chechens. Hamburg: Friedrichsen, 1929.
  • Situation and fate of the German villages in the eastern Ciskaucasia (Soviet Republic of Daghestan) // Der Auslandsdeutsche 13 (1930). Pp. 108-110.
  • A research trip in northwestern Manchuria // Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 3/4 (1933). Pp. 64-69.
  • Northwestern Manchuria as the area of ​​operations // Military weekly paper 25 (January 4, 1934). Pp. 819-821.
  • Cultural, geographic and political effects of the agrarian reform in Polish-Belarusian // Geographische Wochenschrift. Vol. 3, 45 (1935). Pp. 1082-1088.
  • The Caucasus countries // Hdbuch d. Geogr. Wiss. Vol. "Central and Eastern Europe". Potsdam 1935. pp. 435-464.
  • The border area between Manchuria and Transbaikalia (Barga) and the Russian emigrant settlements there // Eastern Europe 1 (1935). Pp. 10-21.
  • The geographical literature on Poland, 1929–1936 // Geographischts Jahrbuch, LI (1936). Pp. 313-357.
  • The mountainous region of northwestern Manchuria. Gotha: Perthes, 1937.
  • Landscapes characteristics of the eastern Gobi // Scientific publications d. German Museum f. Regional geography of Leipzig. NF 7 (1939). Pp. 105-148.
  • The population of the Soviet Union after the events of the last census // Deutsche Post aus dem Osten 12 (1940). Pp. 8-12.
  • The most important new railways in the Soviet Union // Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen (1940). Pp. 161-166.
  • Results of the previous year’s Soviet Russian census from a geographical perspective // ​​Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen (1940). Pp. 191-201.
  • Conversion of the economy in the formerly Polish areas of Belarus and the Ukraine // Eastern European market 1/2 (1941). Pp. 23-56.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old Prussian biography. Vol. 2 (1942). P. 503.
  2. ↑ Geographical indicator. Vol. 43 (1942). P. 301.
  3. ↑ Volksforschung 1/2 (1943). P. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Plaetschke, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plätschke, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kampen , District of Strehlen
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1942
Place of death Berlin