Geographical Society of Hanover

Geographical Society of Hanover eV
purpose	Promotion of science geography
Chair:	Jörg-Friedhelm Venzke (1st chairman); Peter Henning Roeseler (2nd chairman) ; Gerhard Meier-Hilbert (3rd chairman)
Establishment date:	October 21, 1878
Number of members:	approx. 500 (as of 2009)
Seat :	Schneiderberg 50 ; 30167 Hanover
Website:	geohannover.de

The Geographische Gesellschaft zu Hannover eV is one of the oldest and largest geographical societies in Germany.

The purpose of the company is to cultivate geography and allied sciences . For this purpose, lectures, excursions and publications as well as an own library are offered. The special target groups include teachers and trainees as well as schoolchildren and students.

The company is based at Schneiderberg 50 in Hanover-Nordstadt .

deals

The Geographical Society of Hanover works closely with the Geographic Institutes of the Leibniz University of Hanover . More than once a month, especially in the Audimax in the Welfengarten, experienced scientists are obliged to give lectures in their respective fields.

Excursions with a duration of one day up to several weeks under scientific guidance are part of the offer of the association.

To maintain the library housed in the Geographical Institutes of the Leibniz University of Hanover , the society maintains an exchange of fonts with 250 partners around the world.

history

The Geographical Society of Hanover was founded on October 21, 1878 in the context of the then rapidly growing interest in colonial and emigration issues . Together with the cartographer Julius Iwan Kettler and the tropical consul GA Wilhelmy, the senior teacher Dr. L. Mejer and the physics professor Gustav von Quintus-Icilius , the later governor of the German East Africa colony , Eduard Liebert, was one of the twelve citizens who formed a "Provisional Committee for the Foundation of a Geographical Society in Hanover" on September 27, 1878 . The founding meeting took place on October 21, 1878.

In 1879 the annual report, which then appeared in loose succession, was published for the first time, followed by the yearbook, later under the title Hanoverian Geographical Works .

The Society's publications include the two volumes of the yearbook 40/41 published in 1942 under the title Hanover. Image, course of development and significance of the Lower Saxony state capital , which are of particular importance for the history of the city of Hanover.

In 1921, the Geography Department established at the Technical University of Hanover at the time brought strong development impulses for the society: by 1931 it had grown to become the largest scientific society in northern Germany with 1140 members .

Hermann Guthe Medal

Since 1928 the Geographical Society of Hanover has been awarding the Hermann Guthe Medal, named after the geographer Hermann Guthe , for services to the state of Lower Saxony . Holders of the award have since been among others

literature

Gabriele Schwarz (Ed.): Hanover and Lower Saxony. Contributions to regional and economic studies. Festschrift to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Geographical Society in Hanover (= yearbook of the Geographical Society in Hanover , 1953), with a complete list of publications by Erich Obst , ed. on behalf of the board of directors, Hannover: Geographische Gesellschaft zu Hannover, 1953.
Wolfgang Eriksen, Adolf Arnold (ed.): Hanover and its surrounding area. Festschrift to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Geographical Society of Hanover 1878 - 1978 (= yearbook of the Geographical Society of Hanover , 1978)
Chronicle of the lectures, excursions and publications , in Tobias Behnen (Ed.): 125 years of the Geographical Society of Hanover , Hanover: Geographical Society of Hanover, 2003.

Web links

geohannover.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Klaus Mlynek : Geographical Society of Hanover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 208.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e o.V. : About us on geohannover.de [ undated ], last accessed on January 18, 2018.

↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Schneiderberg , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 221.

^ Adolf Arnold: Hundred Years of Geographical Society in Hanover 1878–1978 , in Wolfgang Eriksen , Adolf Arnold (ed.): Hanover and its surroundings. Festschrift to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Geographical Society in Hanover 1878 - 1978 (= yearbook of the Geographical Society in Hanover , 1978), Hanover: Selbstverlag, 1978, pp. 1–17.

↑ for services to the geography of Lower Saxony

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Gabriele Schwarz (Ed.): Hanover and Lower Saxony. Contributions to regional and economic studies. Festschrift to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Geographical Society of Hanover (= Yearbook of the Geographical Society of Hanover , 1953), ed. on behalf of the board of directors, Hanover: Geographische Gesellschaft zu Hanover, 1953, pp. 13–19; here: p. 14.

52.385639 9.713189Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 8.3 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 47.5" E

[SLH_Geogr._Ges.-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Klaus Mlynek : Geographical Society of Hanover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 208.