Frithjof Voss

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Frithjof Voss (born February 13, 1936 in Gelting / Baltic Sea; † May 16, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German geographer , university professor, entrepreneur and founder.

Life

Memorial stele for Prof. Frithjof Voss and Dr. Heike Christina Mätzing at the Zehlendorf forest cemetery

After graduating from high school in Flensburg, Frithjof Voss studied geography and geology in Kiel, Hamburg, Bonn and Oxford between 1957 and 1963 . In 1965 he was at the University of Hamburg in Albert Kolb Dr. rer. nat. PhD.

Various stays abroad followed, mainly in Africa and Southeast Asia, among others. a. at Certeza Surveying & Co., Quezon City, Philippine. In 1971 Voss completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg. In 1977 he was appointed professor of geography at the University of Hamburg. In 1981 he was offered a professorship for geography at the TU Berlin .

Voss held a large number of visiting professorships, including a. at the State University of the Philippines, Manila (1966–68 and 1974–76), Kasetsart University Bangkok, Thailand (1991–92 and 1993), Tonji University Shanghai, China (1994), University Botswana, Gaborone (1994 ), Universidad de La Frontera , Temuco, Chile (1995), Gifu University and the University of Tuskuba, Science City, Tokyo, Japan (1996).

Frithjof Voss died on May 16, 2004. His grave is in the cemetery in Steinbergkirche . At the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf , a memorial stele, created by the Leipzig sculptor Markus Gläser , commemorates his work in Berlin.

Scientific work

His research focus was on applied remote sensing . Using aerial photo evaluations, sideways radar exploration, satellite exploration, computer cartography, etc., he was mainly active in the areas of mass pest control (especially grasshoppers), plant protection, land use , pollutants / contaminated sites and water balance.

His geographical focus was u. a. Ethiopia, Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Netherlands, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Thailand.

Other activities

1980–1989 director of the company Aerial surveys, Hamburg; 1983–1993 scientific advisor to GEO magazine; 2000 Foundation of the advanced training academy of the German Society for Geography; Microsoft Authorized Academic Training Program Institution; 2002 Foundation of his own company ("Institute for Geography", Berlin, Kurfürstenstrasse 114). In the last years of his life, Frithjof Voss was particularly involved in the field of mass pest control. Here he had also registered various utility models.

Prof. Dr. Frithjof Voss Foundation - Foundation for Geography

In 2000 Voss founded the Prof. Dr. Frithjof Voss Foundation - Foundation for Geography based in Berlin, of which he was chairman until his death. The aim of the foundation is to promote geography in science and research as well as as a school subject and to strengthen its application-related importance in public.

Every two years during the German Geographers' Day, the foundation awards two science prizes (physical geography and human geography) and a prize for school geography, and every four years the International Science Prize for German Geography.

In 2007, a circle of friends was founded to support the foundation's concerns in organizational and economic terms. Every year it organizes events on geographical topics, with which interested parties from science and school, media and culture, business and politics are equally addressed and won over to geography. In 2013, with the support of the German Medical Association, a conference with physicians and geographers on the subject of "Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century" took place.

Honors

In 1996, Voss received the Rolex Award for Enterprise for its work on "Fighting mass pests in Africa with satellite technology". In that year, Voss was the only German among 2,500 applicants from 116 countries to be honored with the award. In 1997 he received the silver medal of the Grand prix Hassan II. De l'Invention et de l'Innovation for combating grasshoppers with satellite technology in Casablanca / Morocco .

Publications

  • The morphological development of the mucous mouth. Institute for Geography and Economic Geography, Hamburg 1967.
  • The application of photogrammetric methods for tax collection purposes in the Philippines. Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-921469-22-8 .
  • with Burkhard Hofmeister (Ed.): Berlin Geographical Studies. University Press of the TU Berlin, 1977–2003, 51 volumes.
  • Mass pests in Africa. In: Journal of Applied Geography. Volume 21 (1997), pp. 16-20.

Literature and television productions

  • Frithjof Voss: A man for all cases. In: Image of Science. October 1, 2000.
  • A. Dittmann (Ed.): Geographisches Taschenbuch. 27th edition. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08220-4 , p. 434.
  • The Locust In: Brand Eins. Business magazine, 10/2003.
  • The Breakers: The Locust. Frithjof Voss. TV portrait of ZDF, broadcast several times in spring 2004 on the ZDFinfokanal.
  • Kerstin Decker: Obituary Frithjof Voss. In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 30, 2004, reprinted in: David Ensikat (ed.): What remains - obituaries. Berlin Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-8333-0307-7 , pp. 176-179.
  • The geographer, remote sensing and grasshopper, Prof. Dr. Frithjof Voss. In: K.-H. Marek: Initiative 2000 plus eV Neubrandenburg (Hrsg.): Encounters of a space enthusiast. Verlag Iniplu 2000, Neubrandenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-938439-01-2 , pp. 79-88.
  • Infectious diseases from a medical and geographic perspective. Focus on Hygiene & Medicine / Infection Control and Healthcare mhp Verlag, Wiesbaden. 38th year 9/2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A mediator between science and practice - conference on the 10th anniversary of Frithjof Voss' death. ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: website of the F. V. Foundation  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.voss-stiftung.de
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personal data
SURNAME Voss, Frithjof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer, university professor, entrepreneur and founder
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelting , Baltic Sea
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2004
Place of death Berlin