Hans-Peter Kosack

Hans-Peter Kosack (born July 18, 1912 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † April 19, 1976 in Bonn ) was a German geographer and cartographer .

Life

Kosack's father was a cultural building advisor who, among other things, headed the Tilsit cultural building department and was dike inspector for the dike associations Nemonien and Tawellningken. Hans-Peter Kosack attended the Hindenburg-Oberrealschule in Königsberg, the grammar school in Allenstein and passed the Abitur in 1930 at the Tilsiter Realgymnasium . He studied geography and music at the Albertus University of Königsberg , the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the University of Vienna . On September 25, 1935, he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1935 and 1936 he worked as a research assistant at the Geographical Institute of the Georg-August University in Göttingen and then had guest stays at the Geographical Institutes of the University of Sofia , the University of Lemberg , the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Silesian University Friedrich Wilhelms University and the University of Vienna . On December 1, 1937, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . In March 1939 he became a consultant at the Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme . After the attack on Poland , he was involved in surveying the new border with the Soviet Union on the Bug . In October 1941 he came to the Foreign Office's geographic service as a research assistant and was assigned to the "Potsdam" task force of the Künsberg Special Command , which organized the theft of maps and books on behalf of the Foreign Office. In November 1941 he was stationed in Kiev , then in Kharkov . From March 1942 he was drafted as a soldier and trained as a weather pilot at the Königsberg-Devau airfield . He was a nautical inspector in the marine meteorological service and finally joined the research team at the special disposal of the OKW under the direction of Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel , where he had the rank of Special Leader Z from June 1944 .

After two years as a prisoner of war, from 1947 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Regional Studies, later the Federal Research Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Planning , in Bad Godesberg . In 1951 he was also the first chief editor of the journal Kartographische Nachrichten . From 1954 to 1973 he was co-editor of the circular of the Central Association of German Geographers and the Federal Institute for Regional Studies . Since 1970 he has been teaching part-time at the Librarian Training Institute of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Cologne. One of his main interests was now the polar regions, especially the Antarctic , on which he wrote two specialist books without ever having been there. In addition, he worked on encyclopedias such as Knaur's Lexicon, the Brockhaus Encyclopedia and Westermann's Lexicon of Geography. Shortly before his retirement, he died at the age of 64.

Kosack was married to Loni Jedryczkowski. He left three children, the Egyptologist and coptologist Wolfgang Kosack , the Bonn statistician Klaus Kosack and Heidi Kosack in Karlsruhe.

Fonts

• History of lute and lute music in Prussia , 1934, Diss. PhD. Koenigsberg
• Zalew kuroński in Zbliska i Zdaleko , issue 9, year 1936, Lwów (article about the Curonian Lagoon translated into Polish)
• Contribution to the classification of the Pliocene and Quaternary strata in the Sofia basin , Geologica Balkanica, II, no.3 (1937), Sofia
• The new borders of the western territories of the Soviet Union , 1941, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha
• Geography of East Prussia , 1953, Holzner Verlag, Kitzingen
• The cartography 1943–1954, a bibliographical overview , with Karl-Heinz Meine, 1955, Astra Verlag, Lahr / Schwarzwald
• The Antarctic. A regional geography , 1955, Keysersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Heidelberg
• Attempt to draft an administrative map of northern East Prussia according to the status of January 1, 1955 in reports on German regional studies (born in 1957)
• Polar research , 1967, Vieweg-Verlag, Braunschweig
• Bibliography of the country descriptions and regional atlases of Germany , 1972, Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning, Bonn

literature

• The Ostpreußenblatt, February 24, 1968, article by Herbert Kirrinnis ( PDF )
• Kartographische Nachrichten, year 1976, p. 146/147, obituary by Heinz Schamp.
• The Ostpreußenblatt, July 24, 1982, article by Herbert Kirrinnis ( PDF )
• Sixty years of library training in Cologne: a bibliography . Edited by Rudolf Jung and Ingeborg Konze - Cologne: Greven, 1989 ISBN 3-7743-0567-6 .
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X . P. 612 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrike Hartung: Raids in the Soviet Union: the Künsberg special command 1941–1943 . Bremen: Ed. Temmen, 1997 ISBN 3-86108-319-1 , pages 25; 38; 124.