Gustav Fochler-Hauke

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Gustav Fochler-Hauke (born August 4, 1906 in Troppau , † January 20, 1996 in Munich ) was a German geographer.

Life

The Sudeten German Fochler-Hauke ​​grew up as an orphan. After he made his way with activities as artisans and booksellers and longer Asia had traveled, he put 1931 in Munich the Gifted High School from. He then studied with Karl Haushofer and did his doctorate with Erich Dagobert von Drygalski . Already during his student days he was involved in National Socialism. After acquiring German citizenship as a result of the annexation of the Sudetenland , he joined the NSDAP on December 1, 1938. As early as 1937, he had taken over the post of General Secretary of the German Academy , succeeding Franz Thierfelder , which he held until the summer of 1941.

From 1938 Fochler-Hauke ​​was a lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with military service (at least) 1940/1941, and from 1944 to 1945 an extraordinary professor. From 1948 to 1954 he stayed in Argentina , after his return he was again professor at the University of Munich from 1954 to 1973.

Fochler-Hauke ​​was a successful author of geographic books and the founder of the Fischer World Almanac . Due to his extensive travels to Manchuria between 1927 and 1936, his book Die Manschuri - Eine geographisch-geopolitische Landeskunde was published in 1941 .

In the Soviet occupation zone , his writings Deutscher Volksboden and deutsches Volkstum in Czechoslovakia (Vowinckel, Heidelberg 1937), Der ferne Osten ( Teubner , Leipzig 1938) and East Asia (Teubner, Leipzig 1942) as well as the writings Welt in Fermentation. Periodical reports of German geopoliticians ( Breitkopf & Härtel , Leipzig 1937) and problems of world politics in word and image (Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1939) placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

In 1953 he received the Silver Carl-Ritter-Medal of the Society for Geography in Berlin and in 1969 the Grand Culture Prize of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft . He was also a founding member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1989 Fochler-Hauke ​​was awarded the Federal Republic of Germany's Cross of Merit on Ribbon .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Far East. Power and economic struggle in East Asia . Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1936.
  • Deutscher Volksboden and German Volkstum in Czechoslovakia. A geographical and geopolitical overview . Vowinckel, Heidelberg / Berlin 1937.
  • Manchuria. A geographical and geopolitical study of the country. On the basis of my own travels and literature . Vowinckel, Heidelberg / Berlin 1941.
  • The divided countries. Hot spots in world politics . Rütten and Loening, Munich 1967.
  • The political image of the present day . Volume 1: Peoples and States of the Third World. Africa, the Orient, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America . Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1968.
  • The political image of the present day . Volume 2: The power blocs of the east. China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Soviet Union. Power and economy between the Baltic and the Pacific . Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eckard Michels : From the German Academy to the Goethe Institute . Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, p. 118.
  2. ↑ Michels 2005, p. 120.
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-f.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-p.html
  6. ^ Walter Behrmann: The 125th anniversary of the Society for Geography in Berlin from May 1st to 3rd, 1953 . In: The Earth . tape 84 , no. 3-4 , 1953, pp. 317-322 (on- line ).
  7. ↑ http://www.sudetendeutsche-akademie.eu/Fochler-Hauke.htm
  8. ↑ Federal Gazette , February 1, 1989
personal data
SURNAME Fochler-Hauke, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Opava
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1996
Place of death Munich