Gerhard Isbary

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Gerhard Isbary (born May 15, 1909 in Berlinchen , Soldin district ; † April 4, 1968 in Bonn ) was a German geographer, spatial and regional planner. His main focus was on rural areas, settlement structures and territorial reorganization.

Life

From 1928, Isbary began studying at various universities (Greifswald, Munich, Graz). From around 1930 Isbary studied geography at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, a. a. with Hans Schrepfer . In 1935 he was promoted to Dr. phil. nat. PhD at the University of Frankfurt. The economic geographer Erich Otremba , whom his sister Ursula married in 1938 , also belonged to his circle of friends .

Between 1933 and 1939 Isbary worked for the main editorial office of the concise dictionary of border and foreign Germans in Kiel. A number of population and social scientists and geographers worked on the editorial team. From that time on, Isbary also knew the sociologist Gunther Ipsen (later the Dortmund Social Research Center ).

During the Second World War, Isbary was a member of a commission devising a plan to relocate parts of the Dutch population to Poland. After the end of the war until he fled the GDR , Isbary managed a farm in the Altmark (1945–1952).

From 1952 Isbary worked under Erich Dittrich as a consultant at the Institute for Spatial Research in Bad Godesberg. Between 1959 and 1963 he took over the management of the spatial research department at the institute. He was u. a. responsible for the editing of the "information" of the institute. He made contact with Dutch spatial planners and social scientists.

From 1963 to 1965 Isbary was general secretary of the German Association for Housing in Cologne. In the same year he became a full member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning (ARL). He also acted as managing director of the Institute for Building and Planning Law - Gottlob-Binder Gesellschaft - in Cologne. As a spatial planner, Isbary pleaded for centralization and large administrative units in order to be able to supply the population "economically justified".

In the ARL, Gerhard Isbary was a member of the specialist committee for space and agriculture. From 1965 to 1968 he was a scientific advisor to the German District Council in Bonn. During the same period he was also active on the Advisory Board for Regional Planning at the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

Fonts

Isbary published numerous articles in specialist journals on issues of spatial planning, regional planning, spatial and landscape planning.

  • Aims of a German spatial planning . In: Models for a New World, 3, 1964.
  • Space and society . Contributions to spatial planning and spatial research from the estate of G. Isbary, ARL contributions, Vol. 6, Hanover: Jänecke 1971.
  • [with others]: Areas with healthy structures and living conditions. Features and demarcation. Hanover: Jänicke 1969.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d ARL (ed.): 50 years of ARL in facts . Hanover: ARL 1996, p. 178f.
  2. ↑ Wirth, 1986
  3. ^ Helmut Holzapfel: Urbanism and traffic. Wiesbaden 2012. p. 67.
  4. ↑ Quoted from Holzapfel 2012. p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Isbary, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spatial planner
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlinchen , Soldin district
DATE OF DEATH 4th April 1968
Place of death Bonn