Georg Wegener

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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Wegener (born May 31, 1863 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † July 8, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German geographer and explorer.

Georg Wegener was the son of pastor Wilhelm Wegener. He studied geography , history , German and Protestant religion in Heidelberg , Leipzig , Berlin and Marburg . In 1891 he received his doctorate under Theobald Fischer in Marburg with the dissertation attempt at an orography of the Kwen-Lun . From 1892 he made numerous trips, a. a. 1892 to Spain , 1896 to Spitzbergen , 1897/1898 to Ceylon , Middle East and Egypt , 1900/01 to North America , Samoa , New Zealand and China , 1903 to Central America , 1905–1907 to India , Southeast Asia , Japan and again China. In 1910 he accompanied Crown Prince Wilhelm to India. Wegener was a lecturer from 1910 and professor at the Handelshochschule Berlin from 1919 to 1931 and its rector in 1926/1927. During the First World War he was a war correspondent at the Grand Headquarters . 1928/1929 Wegener was executive chairman of the Aeroarctic .

Fonts

  • 1891 attempt of an orography of the Kwen-Lun
  • 1895 autumn days in Andalusia
  • 1897 To the Eternal Ice. A summer trip to the northern polar sea and an encounter with Andrée and Nansen
  • 1897 The South Pole
  • 1900 German Baltic coast ( digitized version )
  • 1902 During the war by China ( digitized version ).
  • 1903 Germany in the Pacific ( digitized version ).
  • 1904 travels in the west Indian Mediterranean ( digitized version ).
  • 1904 The Panama Canal
  • 1904 Tibet and the English expedition ( digitized version ).
  • 1913 The expansion of human rule over the surface of the earth over the past 25 years and the proportion of Germans in it
  • 1914 participation in Baedekers India
  • 1915–1920 The Wall of Iron and Fire , three volumes ( digital copies ).
  • 1919 The magic coat, memories of a world traveler (2nd edition 1920: digitized version ).
  • 1919 Through the most colorful of Asia , Karlsruhe and Leipzig, Illustrierte Weltall-Bibliothek , 16
  • 1920 The geographic causes of the world war ( digitized version ).
  • 1923 memories of a world traveler .
  • 1923 Miracles of the Distance ( digitized version ).
  • 1926 A new flight of the magic cloak, memories of a world traveler
  • 1928 Fly with us! New memories of a world traveler
  • 1930 China. A regional and folklore UB Stuttgart .
  • 1933 East Asia. A geographical introduction to Stuttgart University Library .
  • 1937 The German colonial empire

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Wegener: State visit of the German crown prince to the Maharajah of Jaipur . In: Der Zaubermantel , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1919.
personal data
SURNAME Wegener, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegener, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1939
Place of death Berlin