Hans-Jürgen Klink

Hans-Jürgen Klink (born October 25, 1933 in Neusalz ) is a German geographer .

Life

After his school days and the Abitur at the Chiemgau-Gymnasium in Traunstein (1945-1953) Klink studied from 1956 to 1964 natural sciences in the subjects chemistry, biology, geography and soil science at the universities in Munich , Erlangen and Göttingen . He completed these subjects in 1964 with the first state examination. He then obtained a doctorate in Dr. rer. nat. at the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty of the University of Göttingen with a thesis on the natural structure and landscape ecology in the Ith-Hils-Bergland between Oberweser and Leine in Lower Saxony. From 1965 to 1970 he worked as a consultant for physical geography and German regional studies at the Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning . In 1971 he moved to the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn as an academic senior counselor and was later appointed professor.

After his habilitation in 1974 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Bonn on the subject of vegetation and its environment in the eastern highlands of Mexico as a function of climate, soil and people , he was transferred to the Geographical Institute of RWTH Aachen University in 1976 for the geoecology and physical geography department appointed as Scientific Councilor and Professor . In 1979, Klink moved to the Geographical Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum to a chair as a full professor with a focus on physical geography and landscape ecology. In 1999 he retired .

From 1981 to 1984 Klink was the scientific advisory board of the Federal Research Institute for Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology and from 1981 to 1998 he was co-editor of the reports on German regional studies . From 1984 to 2000 he was a member of the University Council of Vechta University , the first university council at a German university. In addition, he is a full member of the German Academy for Regional Studies and the Historical Commission for Silesia .

Klink's main research areas are the landscape-ecological justification of the natural spatial structure, the further development of landscape-ecological spatial exploration, settlement ecology, biogeography, in particular vegetation geography, regional geography of Europe, including the regional geography of Germany as well as geographic didactics.

Fonts (selection)

• Natural structure of the Ith-Hils-Bergland . Bad Godesberg 1966, OCLC 3206025 .
• as editor with Herbert Liedtke : Physical geography in the Federal Republic of Germany . Paderborn 1984, ISBN 3-506-71254-3 .
• Vegetation geography . Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-14-160282-1 .
• as editor with Jolanta Rusinowska-Trojca: Historical-topographical atlas of Silesian cities. Volume 4. Nowa Sól - New Salt . Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-87969-384-9 .

literature

• as editors Martin Hütter and Peter Reinirkens: Geoökologie. Contributions to research and application. Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Klink . Bochum 1993, ISBN 3-8196-0174-0 .
• as editor Thomas Schmitt: Topics, trends and theses of the city and landscape ecology. Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Klink . Bochum 2003, ISBN 3-925143-34-3 .

Web links

• Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Klink