Hans Gebhardt

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Hans Gebhardt in 2017

Hans Gebhardt (born September 24, 1950 in Ulm ) is a German human geographer and has held the chair for human geography at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg since 1996 . Gebhardt has been a senior professor since October 2018. His research focuses on political geography , urban geography , new cultural geography, society-environment research as well as regionally in southwest Germany, the Near and Middle East, China and Southeast Asia.

Gebhardt is the author and co-author of numerous geography textbooks and scientific articles. As co-editor of the basic work "Geography: Physical Geography and Human Geography" (2007) Gebhardt shaped German-speaking geography. In addition to his teaching and research activities at Heidelberg University, he is a long-time reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG). Furthermore, Hans Gebhardt was chairman of the Association of Geographers at German Universities .

Professional background

After studying geography, German studies, pedagogy and geology at the Reutlingen University of Education and the University of Tübingen, he passed his state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1976. He received his doctorate in 1979 at the Geoscientific Faculty of the University of Tübingen on the subject of "The Ulm / Neu-Ulm urban region as an industrial location". In 1988 Gebhardt qualified as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne in geography. The subject of his habilitation thesis was “Industry in the Alpine Region. Alpine economic development between external orientation and endogenous potential ”. In October 1990 he was appointed professor for anthropogeography and regional studies of Southwest Germany at the University of Tübingen and in 1996 he was appointed professor for anthropogeography at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

During his teaching activity, he supervised numerous young scientists for doctorates or habilitation.

Since Gebhardt's time in Heidelberg, numerous large excursions to countries in Southeast Asia (e.g. Thailand, Laos, Vietnam), East Asia (e.g. China), Central Asia (e.g. Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan), the Caucasus region have been taken under his leadership (e.g. Georgia), the Middle East (e.g. Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Sinai Peninsula), Latin America (e.g. Brazil) and Europe (e.g. Denmark, Ireland , Southern Sweden, Norway, Sicily).

Research priorities

In addition to studies on geographical research in developing countries, which in the 1990s focused on the effects of modern infrastructure expansion in the Republic of Yemen and the development situation in northeastern Thailand, he devoted himself to geographical retail and centrality research in central locations in Baden-Württemberg as part of a further project .

In two interdisciplinary research projects on geographic gender research, Gebhardt investigated human geographic issues of gender-specific land use problems in urban and rural regions.

From the end of the 1990s, he primarily focused on countries in the Middle East such as Lebanon, Jordan, Iran and Turkmenistan. Research collaborations, such as with the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut, resulted primarily in research projects and research work on urban geographic and political-geographic topics. Examples of this are the studies of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and the Jordanian resource policy.

Another research focus is on urban and industrial development in Chinese metropolitan regions, with Gebhardt supervising five dissertation projects for doctoral students from China in the 2000s.

Gebhardt is considered one of the initiators of the New Cultural Geography, who formulated the cultural turn in German-speaking geography and made it better known. A series of interdisciplinary lectures in the years 2003 to 2006 and the reader published with Paul Reuber and Günter Wolkersdorfer on the topic of "Cultural Geography: Current Approaches and Developments" (2003) served to deepen the interdisciplinary exchange. There were also several DFG projects on the subject of discourse theory in human geography.

Publications (selection)

  • T. Freytag, H. Gebhardt, U. Gerhard, D. Wastl-Walter (Ed.): Humangeographie compact. Spectrum, Berlin / Heidelberg 2016.
  • H. Gebhardt, J. He: The Role of Chinese Style Social Capital (Guanxi). A Case Study of the Design Cluster at Tongji University in Shanghai. In: Geographical Journal. 103 (1), 2015, pp. 19-36.
  • H. Gebhardt, R. Glaser, S. Lentz (Hrsg.): Europe - a geography. Spectrum, Berlin / Heidelberg 2013.
  • H. Gebhardt, R. Glaser, U. Radtke, P. Reuber (Eds.): Geography. Physical geography and human geography. Spectrum, Heidelberg / Berlin 2006.
  • H. Gebhardt (Ed.): Geography of Baden-Württemberg: Space, Development, Regions. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007.
  • H. Gebhardt, P. Reuber, G. Wolkersdorfer (Ed.): Cultural geography: current approaches and developments. Spectrum, Heidelberg / Berlin 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OA: Prof. Dr. Hans Gebhardt. In: Geographisches Institut Heidelberg. Heidelberg University, November 30, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg: Curriculum Vitae H. Gebhardt. (PDF) Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  3. ^ Geographical Institute, University of Heidelberg: Homepage Prof. Gebhardt. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  4. ^ Geographical Institute, University of Heidelberg: Hans Gebhardt - Supervised theses. (PDF) Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  5. ^ Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg: Excursions Anthropogeography. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  6. ^ Geographical Institute, University of Heidelberg: Main page, Chair of Anthropogeography University of Heidelberg. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  7. ^ Geographical Institute, University of Heidelberg: Hans Gebhardt - research activities. (PDF) Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  8. ^ Geographical Institute, University of Heidelberg: Hans Gebhardt - Supervised theses. (PDF) Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  9. ^ Hans Gebhardt, Paul Reuber, Günter Wolkersdorfer: Kulturgeographie. Current approaches and developments . 2003, p. 300 .
  10. ^ Geographical Institute, University of Heidelberg: Lectures by H. Gebhardt. (PDF) Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gebhardt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German human geographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm