Günther Schweizer

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Günther Schweizer (born March 7, 1938 in Ebingen , Württemberg; † April 12, 2020 in Rösrath ) was a German geographer and genealogist .

Live and act

Günther Schweizer was the son of Emil Schweizer, the principal of studies, and his wife Hedwig geb. Leypold. He studied at the universities of Tübingen , Göttingen and Aix-en-Provence , the subjects geography , geology and mathematics and graduated in 1964 with the exam to become a teacher and in 1966 with the promotion from. He received his doctorate in Tübingen with a dissertation on the geomorphology of the French Maritime Alps. He was a scientific assistant, in 1976 scientific counselor and professor at the Geographical Institute of the University of Tübingen , since 1972 also scientific coordinator of the research project " Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East ". In 1975 he completed his habilitation in Tübingen with studies on the Vansee and Urmiasee regions in eastern Anatolia and north-western Iran . In 1979 he accepted a position at the University of Cologne , where he was full professor and director of the Geographical Institute until 1999 . Scientific focus was initially on geomorphology, later on geography of the high mountains , urban geography , and the regional geography of the Middle East .

Since the 1990s Günther Schweizer turned to family research and published a number of papers on scientific genealogy. In 2005 he founded the Genealogical Working Group Tübingen, which he headed until his resignation in 2017. In 2018 he was made an honorary member of the Association for Family Studies in Baden-Württemberg (VFKBW).

Günther Schweizer lived with his wife Brigitte geb. Merchant in Tübingen . The couple had two daughters. In January 2020, he and his wife moved back to Rösrath , where the family had previously lived. He died on Easter Sunday 2020 at the age of 82.

Publications

geography

  • The treasure trove of late and post glacial forms in the High Maritime Alps . - Berlin, Stuttgart: Borntraeger 1968. 167 pp. (Journal of Geomorphology. Supplement 6).
  • Le tardiglaciaire et le niveau des neiges permanentes in les hautes montagnes des Alpes Maritimes . - In: Méditerranée, vol. 9, no. 1, 1968, p. 23-40.
  • Northeast Azerbaijan and Shah Sevan nomads. Structural change in a north-west Iranian landscape and its population . - In: Erdkundliches Wissen (supplements to the geographic journal), H. 26, 1970, pp. 82–148, 10 K., 5 Tab.
  • Tabriz (northwest Iran) and the Tabrizer Bazar . - In: Erdkunde, 26 (1972) 1, pp. 32-46.
  • Vorarlberg's alpine economy using the example of the Montafon . - In: The changing European cultural landscape. Festschrift for KH Schröder. Kiel: Hirt 1974. pp. 160-180.
  • Studies on the physiogeography of eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran. Geomorphological, climatic and hydrogeographic studies in the Lake Van and Lake Rezaiyeh area. - Tübingen: 1975. 145 p. (Tübinger Geographische Studien. 60).
  • The mountains of the earth. - In: The world of the mountains. Lucerne: Bucher 1977. pp. 16–77.
  • Population distribution in the Middle East . - In: Geographische Rundschau, 30 (1978) 3, pp. 98-100.
  • Guest workers in Saudi Arabia. - In: arid areas. Nature and people in an arid habitat. Festschrift for H. Blume. Tübingen: 1980. (Tübingen Geographical Studies. 80). Pp. 353-365.
  • The mountain farming economy of the Northeast Anatolian Rim Mountains (Turkey) in structural change . - In: Economic aspects of spatial development in non-European high mountains. Frankfurt: 1981. (Frankfurter Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographische Schriften. 36). Pp. 85-109.
  • Weekly markets in the Yemen Arab Republic. The traditional supply system under the influence of development processes . - In: Development Processes in the Yemen Arab Republic. Wiesbaden: 1984. (Yemen Studies. 1). Pp. 9-26
  • Social and economic change in the rural distribution system: Weekly markets in the Yemen Arab Republic . - In: Economy, society and culture in contemporary Yemen. Ed. by BR Pridham. London etc .: Croom Helm 1985. p. 108-121.
  • From social spatial structural analysis to perception geography. Research on the urban geography of Cologne at the Geographical Institute of the University of Cologne . - In: Cologne and its surroundings. Cologne 1990. pp. 275-283.
  • The city in the Islamic Orient. - In: The Islamic Orient. Basics of geography of a cultural area. Cologne: Bachem 1990. pp. 196-251.
  • Typh. Development, structure and traditional architecture of an Arab city in upheaval . - Wiesbaden: Reichert 1993. 106 pp. (Supplements to the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. B. 86.). (in cooperation with H. Gaube and Mohamed Scharabi)

genealogy

  • with Karl-Heinz-Fischötter and Volker Trugenberger: The ancestors of the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling . (= Southwest German ancestral lists and pedigree tables. Volume 1). Stuttgart 1999.
  • Family book Musberg. The families of Musberg, Leinfelden, Ober- and Unteraichen . (= Publications of the City Archives Leinfelden-Echterdingen. Volume 7). Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2000.
  • with Wolfgang Raimar and Hans-Ulrich Freiherr von Ruepprecht: Ancestral list of Gerhart Nebinger . Stuttgart 2001.
  • German local clan books . Row B. Volume 213.
  • with Thilo Dinkel: Additions to the Gerhart Nebinger ancestral list. Stuttgart 2003. (For further additions see SWDB, Volume 25, Issue 3, Sept. 2004, pp. 114–128.)
  • Family book Echterdingen. The families of Echterdingen (1641-1900), Weidach (1641-1900), Stetten and Hof (1816-1900). (= Publications of the City Archives Leinfelden-Echterdingen. Volume 9; = German Ortssippenbücher. Series B. Volume 260). Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2002.
  • Family book Bitz. The families of the community of Bitz in the Zollernalbkreis from 1584 to 1900. (= German Ortssippenbücher. Series B. Volume 337; = Württembergische Ortssippenbücher. Volume 76). Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-932942-21-3 .
  • Family, ancestors and relatives of Philipp Matthäus Hahn, pastor, astronomer, engineer and entrepreneur, 1739–1790. Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2006, ISBN 3-00-020221-8 .
  • with Brigitte Schweizer: Emigrants from Echterdingen in America. Everyday life and fate in the mirror of her letters 1880–1906. Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812826 .
  • with Ilse Müller and Peter Werth: The Remy family, Kannenbäcker and entrepreneur. A genealogical inventory. Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-932942-36-5 .
  • as publisher: Wucherer Foundation (Reutlingen) . (= Addendum to Ferd. Friedr. Fabers Württembergische Familien-Stiftungen. Issue 10). Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86386-011-0 .
  • Burkhardt Bardili Foundation . (= Addendum to Ferd. Friedr. Fabers Württembergische Familien-Stiftungen. Issue 11). Edited by the Association for Family and Heraldry in Württemberg and Baden. Stuttgart 2014.
  • Ottilie Wildermuth b. Rooschütz (1817–1877) and their Swabian roots. The ancestors of the writer and their families. (= Southwest German ancestral lists and pedigree tables. 6). Stuttgart 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Günther Schweizer died. vfkbw.de, accessed on April 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Swiss, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebingen , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2020
Place of death Rösrath