Hans Graul

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Hans Graul (born July 4, 1909 in Vienna ; † May 2, 1997 ) was a German geographer and geologist ( geomorphology , quaternary geology ). He was a professor of geography at Heidelberg University .

Life

Graul went to the humanistic grammar school in Vienna and studied history, geography and geology at the University of Vienna with a doctorate under Fritz Machatschek in 1934. Further academic teachers were Hugo Hassinger , Franz Eduard Suess and Arthur Winkler-Hermaden . In Munich he became a member of the youth movement-reformed association Greif. A job as a teacher was not possible because of the political situation and when he followed Machatschek to Munich there was no job. He continued his geomorphological work and was employed by the regional planning authority in Vienna in 1939 and later he set up an office for statistics and regional planning in occupied Krakow. In 1942 he completed his habilitation in Munich, was a farmer for several years in the post-war years (on his wife's farm) and was a private lecturer in Tübingen, Stuttgart and Heidelberg. In 1961 he became professor for physical geography in Heidelberg, which he remained until his retirement in 1974.

Since his dissertation on erosion and landfill on the lower Inn and in the Hunsrück, he has dealt with geology (stratigraphy and others) and geomorphology of the Quaternary, especially in the northern Alpine foothills. He was on the board of the German Quaternary Association and received its Albrecht Penck Medal in 1974 .

Fonts

  • Gravel analysis investigations in the Upper German Tertiary Hills , Abh.Bavarian Academy of Sciences, NF, 46, 1939 (with contribution from Hans Wieseneder)
  • with Gisela Hildebrandt: Contributions to the geography of settlements in the Generalgouvernement , Institute for German Eastern Labor Krakow, Regional Studies Section 1943
  • On the morphology of the Ingolstadt clearing landscape: the development of the lower Lech river and the Danube moor basin , Leipzig, Hirzel 1943
  • Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 179 Ulm. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952. →  Online map (PDF; 4.8 MB)
  • with Ingo Schaefer: On the structure of the Würme Ice Age in the Iller area , Geologica Bavarica, 18, 1953
  • Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 180 Augsburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  • with Machatschek, Carl Rathjens: Geomorphologie , Teubner, 10th edition 1973 (processing of the new edition of Machatschek's geomorphology)
  • Geomorphological studies on the young Quaternary of the northern Alpine foothills, Heidelberg Geomorphological Works, Heidelberg, Munich: Keyser 1962

literature

  • Obituary in Quaternary Science, Volume 47, No. 1
  • Horst Eichler: Hans Graul Festschrift, Geographical Institute University of Heidelberg 1974
personal data
SURNAME Graul, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and geologist (geomorphology, quaternary geology)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1997