Gerhard Sandner

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Gerhard Sandner (born March 19, 1929 in Keetmanshoop , South West Africa ; † April 16, 2013 ) was a German geographer and university professor .

Life

Gerhard Sandner spent his childhood in South West Africa, East Pomerania and Guatemala , where he attended school from 1938 to 1943. Then the route led via Potsdam to Einbeck, where Sandner received his Abitur in 1949. From 1949 to 1954 he studied geography , botany and zoology at the University of Marburg , where he received his doctorate in 1955 and then worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute of Geography. From 1961 he worked at the University of Kiel and received his habilitation there in the same year. In 1965 he took up a professorship in geography at the University of Hamburg . He headed the Department of Economic Geography and was Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences from 1974 to 1976. In addition, Gerhard Sandner was chairman of the board of the Institute for Iberoamerica Customers in Hamburg from 1969 to 1979 and from 1969 to 1971 spokesman for the collaborative research center on Latin America at the University of Hamburg. In 1995 he was visiting professor at the Universidad de Costa Rica. Sandner was secretary between 1963 and 1965 and chairman of the board of the Central Association of German Geographers from 1977 to 1979. He was also the editor-in-chief of the Geographische Zeitschrift from 1973 to 1993 . His daughter, Dr. Verena Sandner Le Gall, is also a geographer, currently at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Gerhard Sandner's students in Hamburg included Jürgen Oßenbrügge and Beate Ratter .

Research and Teaching

From 1958 to 2003, Sandner undertook 36 research trips to Latin America with a focus on Costa Rica as part of various projects and research assignments . To this day, Sandner is considered to be a leading exponent of the geography of Central America and a good expert on Latin America. On this basis he published a comprehensive regional geography of Latin America with Hanns-Albert Steger . Towards the end of his research work he turned to questions of the law of the sea and (critical) geopolitics. He gave a total of 62 lectures in Hamburg with a focus on economic, agricultural, transport and industrial geography as well as 10 on Latin America alone. He supervised 14 doctoral theses, published 144 scientific works in German, English and Spanish and gave a total of 245 lectures in Germany and abroad from 1961 to 2002.

Fonts

Scientific writings

  • Geographical survey: The natural units on sheet 125 Marburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1960. →  Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
  • Agricultural colonization in Costa Rica. Settlement, economy and social structure at the pioneer border. Kiel 1961.
  • with Erich Obst : General economic and transport geography. Berlin 1965.
  • with Hanns-Albert Steger : Fischer Länderkunde. Latin America. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • The capitals of Central America. Growth problems, shape change and social structure. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1976.
  • Central America and the distant Caribbean west. Business cycles, crises and conflicts, 1503-1984. F. Steiner, Stuttgart 1985.
  • The conflicts over the Gulf of Venezuela. Historical roots, political connections, ongoing tensions. Wayasbah, Hamburg 1992.
  • with Beate MW Ratter : Territorial conflicts in the Caribbean. Backgrounds of interest, styles and possible solutions. Institute for Geography at the University of Hamburg, Department of Economic Geography, Hamburg 1993.
  • Geopolitics. An old concept is questioned anew. Society for Social Science Research and Journalism, Berlin 1994.
  • Global trends for the restructuring of the international political and economic system from a European perspective. The formation of new large areas. Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Meeting again after 40 years. Peter Schöller and the start of the discussion between geography and geopolitics in the “Third Reich”. In: Irene Diekmann , Peter Krüger , Julius H. Schoeps : Geopolitics: Border Crossing in the Zeitgeist. Vol. 1.2. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2000, pp. 403-418.
  • Maritime law delineation and management of marine resources in the Greater Caribbean. X COLACMAR [Conferencia Magistral en el Décimo Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias del Mar, San José Costa Rica, 22 al 26 sept. de 2003]. Hamburg 2003.

Autobiographical writings

  • Gerhard Sandner 1929–1949. A youthful period that was not only geographically turbulent . Ellerbek 2004. ( DNB 1010541498 )
  • Gerhard Sandner 1949–1965. Illustrated career from high school to professorship at the University of Hamburg . Ellerbek 2004. ( DNB 101436373X )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Hamburger Abendblatt , April 27, 2013, accessed on April 28, 2013.
  2. ^ Gerhard Sandner: Gerhard Sandner 1929-1949. A youthful period that was not only geographically turbulent . Ellerbek 2004.
  3. ^ Gerhard Sandner: Gerhard Sandner 1949-1965. Illustrated career from high school to professorship at the University of Hamburg . Ellerbek 2004.
  4. ↑ Dr. Verena Sandner Le Gall . In: AG Population Geography . ( uni-kiel.de [accessed on January 20, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Sandner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and professor at the University of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Keetmanshoop , South West Africa
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2013