Gerhart Bartsch

This article deals with the geographer Gerhart Bartsch. For other people see Gerhard Bartsch .

Gerhart Bartsch (born September 1, 1902 in Rawitsch ; † 1993 in Weilburg ) was a German geographer and university professor.

Bartsch passed his Abitur in 1920 in Rawitsch and studied German, geography and geology in Breslau, Göttingen and at the TH Hannover . In 1925 he was in Breslau that I state examination and was treated with a dissertation on the Solling to Dr. phil. PhD under Max Friederichsen . Then he was Erich Obst's assistant at the TH Hanover until 1934 and completed his habilitation there in 1932. Several research trips abroad followed to Anatolia , Turkey . From 1934 to 1936 he did his legal clerkship in Hanover. From 1937 he taught as a lecturer at the college for teacher training in Weilburg until it closed in November 1939. He was transferred to the teacher training college in Koblenz . In 1939 he was re -qualified at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and there in 1942 he became an adjunct professor. Bartsch belonged to the SA , the NSDAP (since 1937) and the NS-Lecturer Association . He was with Emil Hinrichs and Hans Schrepfer co-editors of the magazine for geography (1936-1944) and textbook author.

At the Pedagogical Institute in Weilburg he was a lecturer from 1948, then a professor in 1958, until 1961 Weilburg was integrated into the University of Gießen as a college for education . There he was appointed full professor of geography and its didactics in 1964 and retired in 1970.

Bartsch was a member of the Geographical Society of Hanover and Vienna as well as of the Association of German School Geographers .

Fonts

• The Solling. Dissertation in Wroclaw. Hanover 1925.
• Geography for high schools. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main.

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 156–157 ( limited preview in Google Book search).