Günther Beck (geographer)

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Günther Beck (* 1939 in Eger, today Cheb in the Czech Republic ) is a German geographer and university professor.

Beck was director of the Institute for Geography and its Didactics, Cultural Studies and Regional Research, Department of Economic and Social Geography, at the University of Flensburg .

Scientific career

After studying at Heidelberg University (geography, mathematics, physical education, pedagogy, philosophy), which he completed with the state examination for teaching at grammar schools (geography, mathematics, physical education), he was a teacher at grammar schools.

This was followed by postgraduate studies at the universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen (history, economics, sociology). During his time as a research assistant at the University of Göttingen from 1970, he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

Beck received teaching positions at the Universities of Oldenburg (1978/79) and Gießen (1979) and from 1982 was a university assistant at the University of Göttingen. The habilitation for Dr. rer. nat. habil. took place in 1989. He then held substitute professorships at the University of Göttingen (1990) and at the University of Education in Flensburg (1993).

In 1995 he became an adjunct professor at the University of Göttingen and from 1997 to 2005 he was professor at the University of Flensburg.

Recent publications

  • 2019: "Smuggler's Nest Wimpfen". (Contributions to the history of the Wimpfen city and saltworks; Volume 2) Bad Wimpfen 2019
  • 2018: The salinistic mountain economy. Hermeneutics and pragmatics of the brine and rock salt search. In: Ingenhaeff, Wolfgang / Bair, Johann (Hrsg.): Mining on salt. (16th International Congress of Mining and Mining History. Hall in Tirol - Sterzing - Schwaz 2017. Proceedings). Wattens 2018, pp. 154-165.
  • 2017: (Editor; with editorial assistance from Hermann Wirth) Journal of Salt History / Annales d'Histoire du Sel / Jahrbuch für Salzgeschichte, Vol. 13/14 (2017), special issue "Aspects of energy consumption / energy supply in the salt industry - in History and present". Wattens 2017
  • 2015: Modern trades. Founder, owner and shareholders of a company in the salt industry in the early 19th century. In: Ingenhaeff, Wolfgang / Bair, Johann (ed.): Mining and personalities (13th International Mining and Mining Congress. Hall in Tirol - Schwaz - Sterzing 2014. Proceedings). Wattens 2015, pp. 49-68.
  • 2014b: warfare and pacification. About trade and traffic conflicts in the salt industry of southern German territorial states in the early 19th century. In: Ingenhaeff, Wolfgang / Bair, Johann (ed.): Mining and War (12th International Mining and Mining Congress. Sterzing - Hall in Tirol - Schwaz 2013. Proceedings). Wattens 2014, pp. 23–39.
  • 2012: (Editor; editorial assistance: Hermann Wirth) Journal of Salt History / Annales d'Histoire du Sel / Yearbook for Salt History, Vol. 12 (2012), special issue "Salt museums"
  • 2010: The formation of mountain areas in the salt industry (illustrated using examples from Central Europe). In: Ingenhaeff, Wolfgang / Bair, Johann (Hrsg.): Bergbau und Berggeschrey. On the origins of European mines (8th International Congress of Mining and Mining History. Schwaz - Sterzing 2009. Proceedings). Hall in Tirol / Vienna 2010, pp. 39–58.
  • 2009: The break-up of traditional salt markets at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Economic policy causes and reasons for decision. In: Westermann, Angelika / Westermann, Ekkehard (eds.) / With the assistance of Josef Pahl: Wirtschaftslenkende Montanverwaltung - Princely Entrepreneur - Mercantilism. Husum 2009, pp. 393-422.
  • 2008: (with Wolfgang Aschauer and Jörg Becker) Introduction: Critical Geography? Critical geography! In: Geographische Revue 10 (2008), no. 2, pp. 5-6.
  • 2006b: (Ed.) Geographische Hochschulmanuskripte NF = Geographical Review Supplements. H. 2: Schultz, Hans-Dietrich: Friedrich Ratzel: (not) a racist? Flensburg 2006
  • 2006a: Introduction: Geographical Reference Works. In: Geographische Revue 8 (2006), no. 2, pp. 5-36.
  • 2005: (Ed.) Geographische Hochschulmanuskripte NF = Geographical Review Supplements. H. 1: Jan Christian Bonse: The Russian minority in the Baltic States. The social and cultural reorientation as a result of political change in a "transition region" between East and West. Flensburg 2005
  • 2004b: Grasping the reality of the world or (geography) lessons only begin to be interesting where they become science ... In: Geographische Revue 6 (2004), no. 2, pp. 59–80.
  • 2004a: The Present of the Past. About the media handling of the story of Friedrich-Wilhelm Lübke-Kooges. In: Kohly, Alexander (Ed.): 50 years of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Lübke-Koog. Heide 2004, pp. 86-101.
  • 2003: To read again: Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. In: Geographische Revue 5 (2003), H. 1, pp. 49-59.
  • 2002b: The Ludwigshalle Wimpfen corporation and the Neckarsalinen cartel - early industrial capitalist forms of organization of the 19th century. In: F. Götzfried (Ed.): Salt and brine in Wimpfen. Contributions to the Wimpfen city and saltworks history. Bad Wimpfen 2002, pp. 82-101.
  • 2002a: Searching for and founding salt in the early 19th century in the Thuringian states and in the Kingdom of Saxony. In: Editorial Board of the Bauhaus University Weimar / Wirth, H. (Ed.): Investments in the saltworks and salt mining - global framework. regional effects, remaining monuments. (Thesis - Scientific journal of the Bauhaus University Weimar, Jg. 2002, H. 4/5) Weimar 2002, pp. 174–191.
  • 2001b: Risk capital in the early days of industrialization - a case study from the salt industry in Central Europe. In: Litchfield, Carol D. / Palme, Rudolf / Piasecki, Peter (eds.): Le Monde du Sel. Mélanges offerts à Jean-Claude Hocquet. (Journal of salt-history / Annales d'histoires du sel / Jahrbuch für Salzgeschichte; 8–9) Schwaz 2001, pp. 151–179.
  • 2001a: The salt works and salt drilling experiments of Carl Christian Friedrich Glenck. About the early phase of the industrialization process in the salt industry in Central Europe. In: Hellmuth, Thomas / Hiebl, Ewald (Hrsg.): Kulturgeschichte des Salzes. 18.-20. Century. Vienna and Munich 2000, pp. 89-106.
  • 2000: Why does East Prussia (still) look so East Prussian? Notes on the mental representation of regional units. In: Aschauer, Wolfgang / Beck, Günther / Haußer, Karl (eds.): Home and regional identity. (Journal for cultural and educational sciences; 10) Flensburg 2000, pp. 79–87.

Editorships

  • Geographical university manuscripts: 12 volumes (1973–1985), co-editor, since 1973
  • Geographical Review : 16 years (1999–2015), co-editor, since 1999
  • Geographische Hochschulmanuskripte NF = Geographische Revue Supplements: 2 volumes (2005–2006), editor, since 2005
  • Journal of Salt History / Annales d'Histoire du Sel / Yearbook for Salt History: 12 years (1993–2012), editor, since 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Beck, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheb