Geographical Society of Lübeck

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The Geographical Society of Lübeck is an association for the maintenance of geographical knowledge in Lübeck .

The Geographische Gesellschaft achieves its purpose primarily through lecture evenings and through the publication of its communications with scientific content. She was always in close contact with other geographical societies. She handed over the publications she received in exchange to the city ​​library . Since 1951 the society has also organized excursions for its members.

history

On January 20, 1882, a "committee" of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities was established. This meant that only members of the non-profit could also become members of the Geographical Society. Co-founder and chairman from 1882 to 1900 was the high school professor at the Katharineum August Sartori .

The first focal points were the commercial geography of Northern Europe and the Lübeck topography. In 1883, the Lübeck regional studies and geomagnetic observations were added. This was in competition with the activity of the only comparable facility of this type, the Wilhelmshaven Magnetic Observatory of the Imperial Navy . An Ertl universal instrument was used to indicate the measuring point , which is necessary for every magnetic measurement , which enabled exact location determinations; a loan from the Göttingen observatory . The first work results were in 1888 as a magnetic recording of the coastal area between the Elbe and Oder, carried out by the geomagnetic station in Lübeck and forwarded to the Georg-August University of Göttingen , which has coordinated the research results worldwide since the time of the Magnetic Association .

Between 1884 and 1900 the society also dealt with the colonial system . With the establishment of the Natural History Museum in the Museum am Dom in 1893, there was a closer connection to the ethnographic collection also located there. The Geographical Society supported the Pangwe expedition by Günther Tessmann from Lübeck (1906).

Marble bust, 1910

On his 70th birthday was Hermann Wagner one of Adolf von Donndorf modeled bust of marble . Among other things, the company participated in their financing through a resolution at the 199th Ordinary Meeting on February 12, 1910 in the amount of 30 gold marks . In the same year, the company sent the banker William Kohr to from 6 to 8 October 1910 in the Reichstag under the Bureau of Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg held the third colonial Congress to Berlin . The company participated here as an organizer .

With the reform pedagogue and director of the Oberschule zum Dom, Sebald Schwarz became chairman of the society in 1913 as successor to Heinrich Lenz, the first studied geographer. Wilhelm Ohnesorge headed the company from 1920 to 1936 and then became its honorary chairman. From 1942 it was led by the school geographer Max Schurig (1882-1977), who passed the chairmanship in 1974 to his son Walter Schurig (chairman until 1993).

In 2003, Geographical , as it is briefly called in Lübeck, merged with the Friends of Ethnology and has since been called the Society for Geography and Ethnology in Lübeck . Antje Peters-Hirt became the first chairwoman . Today the company is a registered subsidiary of the non-profit organizations in the register of associations .

Honorary members

literature

  • Georg Behrens: 175 years of charitable work. Lübeck 1978
  • 200 years of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck 1789-1989 , Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 1988. pp. 130–132

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 200 years of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck 1789-1989 , pp. 173/174.
  2. ↑ 100 Years of the Geomagnetic Service in Northern Germany ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgg-online.de
  3. ↑ Published by Wilhelm Schaper : Earth Magnetic Station Lübeck: Magnetic recording of the coastal area between Elbe and Oder. 1909.
  4. ↑ Among other things with a donation of 500 bottles of Lübeck Rotspon , (cf. Behrens, p. 131)
  5. ^ Geological Society. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Vol. 52, No. 8, edition of February 20, 1910, p. 118.
  6. ^ Geological Society. In: Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 52, No. 45, edition of November 6, 1910, p. 662.
  7. ^ Rolf Sander: In memoriam Walter Schurig in: Mitteilungen der Geographische Gesellschaft zu Lübeck , Heft 54, Lübeck 1977, pp. 129-134.