Ernst Schmid (geographer)

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Ernst Schmid (* 1888 in Egnach ; † February 28, 1941 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss geographer.

Live and act

Ernst Schmid grew up in simple circumstances. After attending the Thurgau teachers' college in Kreuzlingen , he taught in Tägerwilen . A job as a teacher of the orphanage in Zurich enabled him to study at the local university , which he in 1916 with a dissertation on the settlement and economic geography of the canton Thurgau completed that in the 1918 writings of the Society for the History of Lake Constance and its surroundings appeared. After the First World War , Schmid worked for the Red Cross in the field of prisoner exchange until the cantonal school in St. Gallen appointed him professor for geographic subjects in 1920.

Schmid belonged to the "Ostschweizerische Geographisch-Commercielle Gesellschaft" (today: "Ostschweizerische Geographische Gesellschaft"), which he chaired in 1929. From then on he edited the communications of the Ostschweizerische Geographisch-Commercielle Gesellschaft , for which he himself wrote some articles; the magazine was discontinued soon after his death.

From 1921 Schmid represented the canton of St. Gallen on the board of the " Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings ". In 1936 he was elected club president to succeed Victor Mezger . During his presidency there was an upswing in club life, which, however, broke off with the beginning of the Second World War . In an increasingly difficult environment, Schmid was keen to promote scientific and cultural exchange between Switzerland and Germany. In 1941, for example, he invited the Freiburg geographer Friedrich Metz to give a lecture in St. Gallen; Schmid died of a stroke while preparing for this event. His successor as president of the Bodensee-Geschichtsverein was the Thurgau Cantonal School Rector Ernst Leisi .

Fonts

  • Contributions to the settlement and economic geography of the Canton of Thurgau. With 6 illustrations in the text and 14 picture panels. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 47, 1918, pp. 236-378. Digitized
  • St. Gallen. A contribution to urban geography in Switzerland. In: Announcements of the Eastern Switzerland Geographical-Commercial Society in St. Gallen. Born in 1928 (= Festschrift on the occasion of its 50th anniversary ). St. Gallen 1928, pp. 77-275.
  • List of publications by Ernst Schmids: Digitalisat

literature

  • Hans Krucker: Prof. Dr. Ernst Schmid, St. Gallen †. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 67, 1940, pp. XIII-XVI. Digitized
  • Hans Krucker: † Prof. Dr. Ernst Schmid, St. Gallen. In: The Swiss Geographer / Le geographe suisse. Volume 18, 1941, p. 39.
  • Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Krucker: Prof. Dr. Ernst Schmid, St. Gallen †. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 67, 1940, pp. XIII-XVI.
  2. ↑ Harald Derschka: The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302, especially pp. 138 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Egnach
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1941
Place of death St. Gallen