Fritz Klute

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Fritz Klute (born January 29, 1885 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † February 7, 1952 in Mainz ) was a German geographer and glaciologist .

Life

Klute received his doctorate in 1911 with a thesis on issues of early summer snow residue in the Black Forest. After a short time as a teacher in Heidelberg , he became Hermann Wagner's assistant at the University of Göttingen . In his habilitation thesis he dealt with the Kilimandjaro , the high regions of which he had stereophotogrammetrically measured on an expedition in 1912 . On July 29th he managed the first ascent of Mawenzi , the second highest peak of the Kilimandjaro massif at 5,148 m. From 1922 he was full professor of geography in Gießen and stayed there until the institute was destroyed on December 6, 1944. In 1923/24 he traveled to Argentina to research the glaciers around Lake Nahuel Huapi . In 1925 he went on an expedition to West Greenland with Hans Krüger . He found that the west coast of Greenland has risen 120 m since the end of the last glacial period . In 1942 Fritz Klute became head of the university study group for spatial research at the University of Giessen . After the Second World War he headed (as a representative of anthropo- and physical geography) together with Josef Schmid (1898–1978) the Institute of Geography at Mainz University .

The main research areas of Klute were the Ice Age and settlement geography. In 1939 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Works

as author:

  • The remains of snow in the Black Forest in early summer and the relationship between their location and the sites of former glaciation . In: Ber. Natf. Ges. Freiburg i. Br. XIX, 1911
  • Results of the research on Kilimandjaro in 1912 . Berlin 1920
  • Argentina - Chile Today. Country, people and culture. Otto Quitzow Verlag Lübeck 1925
  • The Hessian Greenland Expedition 1925 . In: Petermanns Mitt. 72, 1926, pp. 105–111. (with Hans Krüger)
  • The Importance of the Snowline Depression to Ice Age Problems . In: Ztschr. F. Gletscherkunde 16, 1928, pp. 70–93
  • Investigations into the possibility of an economic harmony of the Greater German Reich and the Eastern Era . Christ, Giessen 1941
  • People and space . Christ, Giessen 1941

as editor:

  • Handbook of Geographical Science , Potsdam, Athenaion, with the following volumes:
    • [v.1] General geography. 2 pts. [c1933]
      • Part 1: Physical Geography, 556 pp.
      • Part 2: Life on Earth, 560 pp.
    • [v.2] Central Europe. Eastern Europe. [c1933], 498 pp.
    • [v.3] Southeast and Southern Europe. [c1931], 587 pp.
    • [v.4] Western and Northern Europe. [c1938], 596 pp.
    • [v.5] The German Empire. 2 pt. [C1936–40]
      • The German Empire in Nature, Culture and Economy, Part 1, 370 pp.
      • The German Empire in Nature, Culture and Economy, Part 2, 328 pp.
    • [v.6] North Asia, Central and East Asia. [c1937], 591 pp.
    • [v.7] Middle East and South Asia. [c1937]
    • [v.8] Africa. [c1930], 515 pp.
    • [v.9] North and Central America. Arctic. [c1933]
    • [v.10] South America. [c1930]
    • [v.11] Australia and Oceania. Antarctic. [c1930]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Berger: Frankfurt and the North Pole. Researchers and explorers in the eternal ice . In: Jan Gerchow (Ed.): Writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main . tape 26 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-285-7 , p. 156 .
  2. ↑ a b in the Soviet occupation zone in 1948 on the list of auszusondernden Literature set

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personal data
SURNAME Klute, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1952
Place of death Mainz