Ernst Neef

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Ernst Neef (born April 16, 1908 in Dresden ; † July 7, 1984 there ) was a German geographer . He is considered - together with Carl Troll (1899–1975) and Josef Schmithüsen (1909–1984) - as one of the founders of landscape ecology , which he further developed theoretically and methodologically.

Life

Ernst Neef studied geography and geology at the universities of Innsbruck and Heidelberg . In 1932 he graduated with the geomorphological work "The landforms of the Bregenz Forest " to Dr. phil. He then worked from 1932 to 1936 at the Geographical Institute of the Technical University of Dresden . From 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP and SA. After his habilitation with the thesis “Studies on the Agricultural Geography of Saxony”, he was appointed to the Technical University of Danzig in 1936 . His teaching activity was interrupted by the war years, during which he worked as a meteorologist , among other things . After 1945, Ernst Neef worked in Dresden's urban planning department until he received a call to the University of Leipzig in 1949 , where he rebuilt the Institute of Geography, which he headed until 1959.

From 1959 until his retirement he worked at the TH, later at the TU Dresden, initially as director of the Institute for Geography, after the third university reform in the GDR as professor for geography in the geodesy and cartography section . In the Leipzig and Dresden years his main work on geographical landscape research was created . While working in Dresden, he also actively campaigned for the interdisciplinary interaction between environmental and technical sciences.

As a member of the scientific advisory board for local research of the Geographical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, he was involved in the publication of the series values ​​of our homeland with regard to the subject of geography . In 1959 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Even after his retirement, he had a technical basis for the work in the last decade of his life, which was devoted to cultural landscape research , among other things, in the working group he founded “Landscape Budget and Territorial Character” at the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

One of his doctoral students was Karl Mannsfeld .

Publications

(Selection)

  • with Moritz Durach / Richard Vogel: The habitat of the Upper Saxony: a folk German native atlas , Harms uniform teaching work, List & v. Bressensdorf, Leipzig 1937
  • German cultural achievements in the Baltic Sea region. Writings of the Adolf Hitler School, training castle German East, Gauleitung Danzig-West Prussia, 1938, pp. 1–36.
  • Land planning and geographic research. In: Ber. German Landeskunde 7, 1949/50, no. 2, pp. 310–332.
  • On the genesis of the shape of the Rump Mountains. Petermanns Geogr. Mitt. 99, 1955, pp. 183-192.
  • (Ed. And co-author :) The face of the earth . Brockhaus-Taschenbuch der Physical Geographie. With an ABC. 1st edition 1956; several editions.
  • (with G. Schmidt and M. Lauckner :) Landscape ecological studies on various physiotopes in northwest Saxony . In: Dep. Sächs. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Nat. Kl. 47, H. 1, 1961, pp. 1-112.
  • Elemental analysis and complex analysis in geography. In: Leopoldina 8./9. Volume 3, 1962/63, pp. 177-189.
  • Topological and chorological working methods in landscape research. In: Petermanns Geogr. Mitt. 107, 1963, pp. 249-259.
  • On the question of the regional economic potential. In: Research and Progress 40, 1966, H. 3, pp. 65-70.
  • The theoretical foundations of landscape theory . Gotha / Leipzig 1967.
  • The metabolism between society and nature as a geographical problem. In: Geogr. Rundschau 21, 1969, pp. 435–459.
  • Geography and environmental science. In: Petermanns Geogr. Mitt. 116, 1972, pp. 81-88.
  • Side effects of social activities in the natural area. In: Petermanns Geogr. Mitt. 120, 1976, pp. 141-144.
  • (Ed.) Socialist national culture - environmental design - environmental protection. Brockhaus manual, with an ABC. Leipzig 1977.
  • The loss of clarity and the problem of the cultural landscape In: Sitz.-Ber. Saxon. Akad Wiss. Leipzig, Math.-Nat. Kl. 115, H. 6, pp. 1-34.
  • (Ed. H. Barthel) Selected writings. Supplement 283 to Petermanns Geogr. Mitt. , Gotha 1983.
  • About the term “ complementarity ” in geography. In: Petermanns Geogr. Mitt. 129, 1985, pp. 141-142.

literature

  • Rainer W. Gärtner:  Neef, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 23 ( digitized version ).
  • G. Haase: In memory of Ernst Neef . In: Petermanns Geogr. Mitteilungen 129 (1985), pp. 142-144
  • E. Lehmann: Ernst Neef - April 16, 1908–7. July 1984 . With bibliography. In: Yearbook of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig 1983-1984 , Berlin 1986, pp. 219-236
  • H. Readers: Ernst Neef and landscape ecological research . In: Die Erde 116 (1985), pp. 1-6
  • K. Mannsfeld, HH Neumeister (ed.): Ernst Neefs landscape theory today . Supplement 294 to Petermanns Geogr. Mitteilungen, Gotha and Stuttgart 1999
  • H. Richter: Ernst Neef . In: Well-known university lecturers at the Karl Marx University of Leipzig , Vol. 6th 1984. pp. 35–39

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kappelt, Olaf: Braunbuch DDR.Nazis in der DDR, p. 89
personal data
SURNAME Neef, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 1984
Place of death Dresden