Georg Niemeier (geographer)

Georg Niemeier (born October 25, 1903 in Soest , † March 22, 1984 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German geographer and university professor .

Life

Career in the Nazi state

Niemeier was a member of the NSDAP and the SA with the rank of Sturmbannführer. He worked as a deputy department clerk for ideological training in the Nazi teachers' association. In 1937 he became an associate professor and in 1939 an associate professor at the University of Göttingen . He was then an adjunct professor of geography at the University of Münster . In January 1941, Niemeier was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Strasbourg . On November 1, 1941, he became a full professor of geography in Strasbourg.

After the Second World War

Niemeiers Das Kampffeld Mediterranean: A political-geographical outline (published by the Office for Political Education at the Reichsstudentenführer , Munich 1941) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

From 1956 to 1966 he was a professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig . Since 1959 he was a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Fonts

• Settlement geography studies in Lower Andalusia. Hamburg 1935.
• The German colonies in southern Spain. Hamburg 1937.
• The Mediterranean battlefield. Munich 1941.
• The place names of the Münsterland. Munster 1953.
• Settlement geography. Braunschweig 1967.
• East Frisian Islands. Berlin, Stuttgart 1972.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt a. M. 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Niemeier in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herwig Schäfer: Legal teaching and research at the Reich University of Strasbourg 1941–1944. Mohr Siebeck, 1999, p. 35.
2. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of the literature to be separated (1946) on polunbi.de