Erich Otremba

Erich Otremba (born November 11, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 11, 1984 in Ahrensburg ) was a German economic geographer. Most recently he was a professor at the University of Cologne .

Life

Otremba studied from 1930 economics, geography and geology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he in 1937 with a theme of Agrargeographie Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate. In 1942 he completed his habilitation at the University of Erlangen with a thesis on the urban geography of Nuremberg. In the following years he was a member of a group of geologists , geographers, hydrologists and vegetation experts (among others with Josef Schmithüsen ) under the name of " Forschungsstaffel für die Sonderverarbeitung des OKW " . This was compiled by Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel in 1943 for the evaluation of aerial photographs with regard to the warfare of the Reichswehr .

Before the Second World War, Otremba was a research assistant in Erlangen. In 1947 he became a deputy chair for geography and finally in 1950 an adjunct professor. From 1951 he was a full professor of economic geography at the University of Hamburg , where he was dean in 1957/58 and 1960/61. From 1963 he was professor for economic and social geography at the University of Cologne, where he was dean from 1966/67. In 1977 he retired.

He dealt with agricultural and industrial geography, urban geography, spatial planning and regional planning. Some of his works were considered standard works in teaching and research at the time.

At the Geographentag in Cologne in 1961, he caused a scandal when, in contrast to Hans Bobek (who saw it as an established and successful discipline), he questioned the meaningfulness of a separate discipline, social geography.

In 1959 he received the Carl-Ritter-Medal of the Society for Geography , in 1977 the Robert-Gradmann-Medal and in 1970 the golden Martin Behaim plaque. In 1970 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Erlangen. He was a member of the Joachim Jungius Society , the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning and the Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .

From 1964 to 1969 he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation.

He had been married since 1938 and had five children.

Fonts

• General agricultural and industrial geography , Stuttgart, Franckh 1953
  • New edition as: * The production of goods in the world economic area , Rudolf Lütgens (editor) Earth and world economy. A handbook of general economic geography , Volume 3. Stuttgart, Franckh, 3rd edition 1976
• Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land. In:
  Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (Hrsg.): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960). 2. Delivery 1955, pp. 181-189.
• General geography of world trade and world traffic , Stuttgart, Franckh 1957
  • New edition as: Trade and Transport in the World Economic Area , Rudolf Lütgens (Editor) Earth and World Economy. A handbook of general economic geography , Volume 4, 2nd edition, Stuttgart, Franckh 1978
• Editor Atlas of the German Agricultural Landscape , Wiesbaden, Steiner, 1962 to 1971
• with Rudolf Lütgens The economic area, its geographic foundations and problems , Stuttgart, Franckh, 2nd edition 1969 (new edition of Lütgens The geographic foundations and problems of economic life )
• The agricultural economic area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany , geographic knowledge, Volume 24, 1970, supplements to the geographic journal
• with Karlheinz Hottes, Emil Meynen (Central Committee for Regional Studies and Institute for Regional Studies ) Economic structure of the Federal Republic of Germany: geographical and regional analysis 1960 - 1969 , research on German regional studies, Volume 193, Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning, Bonn, 1972
• Locational conditions and interdependencies of industry in the Federal Republic of Germany , Paderborn, Schöningh 1973
• Editor with Ulrich auf der Heide Commercial and Transport Geography , Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977

literature

• Utz Küpper, EW Schamp , E. Gabriel (editor): The economic area: Contributions to the method and application of a geographical research approach; Festschrift for Erich Otremba on his 65th birthday , Wiesbaden, Steiner 1975
• Eugen Wirth : Erich Otremba 1910 - 1984 , in Mitteilungen der Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft , Volume 33/34, 1986/87, pp. 1–15 ( online ) (obituary)

Web links

• Gerhard Oberbeck:  Otremba, Erich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 648 f. ( Digitized version ).