Edwin Fels

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Edwin Fels (1958)

Edwin Theodor Fels (born November 11, 1888 in Corfu , † May 19, 1983 in Munich ) was a German geographer.

Life

Fels was born as the son of the wholesale merchant Georg Thomas Fels and his wife Antonie geb. Trampitsch. In 1894, after the death of their father, the family moved from Corfu to Lindau (Lake Constance) .

He attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . After graduating from high school, in 1907 he began to study geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1908 he became active in the Corps Isaria . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . With a doctoral thesis on the Plansee (Tyrol) he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, most recently as a field topographer. After his habilitation , he taught from 1923 as a private lecturer at the University of Munich. In 1927 he was made a non-official associate professor . In 1932/33 Fels was on the board of the Association of German Universities .

During the Weimar Republic, Fels joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . From 1938 to 1945 he was full professor for economic geography at the Berlin Business School . In 1948 he arrived in West Berlin to the Chair of the Free University . Since 1949 he also held an honorary professorship at the Technical University of Berlin and a teaching position at the German University of Politics . 1957 Fels was retired.

Honorary memberships

  • Geographical Society of Greifswald
  • Geographical Society Munich
  • Geographical Society of Rome
  • Belgrade Geographical Society
  • Corps Isaria

Publications

  • Re-exploration of the Walchensee. In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin, 1922, pp. 145–147 (small messages) ( online )
  • The new depth map of the Walchensee. In: Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 75, 1923, pp. 155–156 ( short version )
  • From Athos to Ida. Greek high mountain images in descriptions of German travelers. Friederichsen, de Gruyter & Co., Hamburg 1930.
  • The ocean in its economic and geographic importance. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1932.
  • Man as the designer of the earth. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1935.
  • Land reclamation in Greece. J. Perthes, Gotha 1944.
  • The reshaping of the earth by man Schöningh, Paderborn 1962, ISBN 978-3506231307 .
  • with Rudolf Lütgens and Erich Otremba : The economic man as the designer of the earth. Franckh, Stuttgart 1954.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1906/07
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 109/937
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The Plansee. A geographic lake study .
  4. ^ Habilitation thesis: The coasts of Corfu. A contribution to the landscape of the island .
  5. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 46-47.
personal data
SURNAME Rock, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fels, Edwin Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Corfu
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1983
Place of death Munich