Erwin Scheu

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Erwin Scheu (born March 13, 1886 in Steinheim an der Murr ; † November 28, 1981 in Nuremberg ) was a German geographer .

Life

Erwin Scheu, born in Steinheim an der Murr in 1886, studied geography at the universities of Stuttgart , Berlin , Leipzig and Freiburg after graduating from high school . As a result, he received a position as a lecturer in geography at the University of Erlangen , before moving to the University of Leipzig as an assistant in 1909. Scheu was initially employed there from 1913 to 1924, temporarily interrupted by his participation in the First World War , as a private lecturer in geography at the Philosophical Faculty. Subsequently, Scheu held an unscheduled professorship for geography at the mathematics and natural sciences department of the philosophy faculty until 1929.

In 1929, Scheu accepted a professorship for economic geography at the Königsberg Commercial College , which he held until his retirement in 1945. Scheu mainly published articles on the economic geography of Germany.

After the start of the attack on Poland , Scheu prepared an expert opinion on the so-called "New Eastern Territories" on behalf of the " Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Raumforschung ", i.e. the areas of Poland that were annexed to the German Reich in violation of international law immediately after the conquest . The report dealt with the " Germanization " of the newly created Reichsgaue Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia as well as the administrative district of Zichenau - it essentially concerned the expulsion of the local population and the simultaneous settlement of " ethnic Germans ". Scheu also described his impressions of visiting these areas in an article in the Geographische Zeitschrift that was bursting with racism and anti-Semitism (1/1941, pages 16 to 37).

In 1943 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

From November 1950 to October 1951 Scheu was associate professor for economic geography at the University of Bonn . 1953–1958 honorary professor at the University of Erlangen .

Erwin Scheu, who married Hertha, the daughter of Walter Bräutigam, in 1919, died on November 28, 1981 at the age of 95 in Nuremberg.

Fonts (selection)

  • Germany's economic-geographic harmony, Breslau 1924
  • The food supply of the major Saxon cities, Breslau 1924
  • The Reich's economic unity: a representation of the internal entanglements of the German Reich in all its parts, Berlin 1926
  • Germany's economic provinces and districts, Berlin 1928
  • Economic geographic test drives, Breslau 1936
  • Western and Northern Europe in Nature, Culture and Economy, Potsdam 1938

literature

  • Kurt Forstreuter , Fritz Gause : Old Prussian Biography, Volume 5, Part 2, p. 1928, Elwert 2007
  • Ernst Weigt et al. a .: Applied Geography: Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Erwin Scheu at the end of his 80th year of life , Nünrberg, Economic and Social Geographical Institute of the Friedrich-Alexander University , Erlangen 1966.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Erwin Scheu at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Shy, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinheim an der Murr
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1981
Place of death Nuremberg