Elmar Kulke
Elmar Kulke (born February 10, 1958 in Bad Hersfeld ) is a German geographer and professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
Life
From 1978 to 1983 Kulke studied geography , economics , urban and regional planning and geology in Hanover, Braunschweig and Göttingen. He wrote his diploma thesis on "Regional political strategies in developing countries". He taught at the University of Hanover, where he received his doctorate in 1986 ( "Industrialization of Peripheral Regions in Malaysia" ) and his habilitation in 1991 ( "Changes in the location structure of retail trade" ). Since 1994 he has held the chair for economic geography at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Kulke was President of the German Society for Geography (DGfG) from 2003 to the end of 2007 .
plant
Kulke's main research areas are economic geography (especially industrial and service geography) and Germany (especially Berlin / Brandenburg) and Southeast Asia (especially Malaysia) as reference areas. In teaching, the focus is on theory-based and application-oriented economic geography. He became known, among other things, as the author of the textbook "Economic Geography".
Fonts (selection)
- Elmar Kulke: Economic Geography. 4th edition, Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-4016-5 (= floor plan for general geography ; UTB)
- Elmar Kulke: Cuba - on tour. Spectrum, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8274-2596-6 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Elmar Kulke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of the chair
- Official website of the German Society for Geography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kulke, Elmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Hersfeld |