Hans Poser (geographer)

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Hans Poser (born March 13, 1907 in Hanover ; † November 4, 1998 in Göttingen ) was a German geographer .

Life

Hans Poser studied geography , geology and history at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1930 under Wilhelm Meinardus with the dissertation " Morphological studies from the Meißner area ". He completed his habilitation in 1935 with "Valley studies in West Spitsbergen and East Greenland ".

From 1941 Poser was acting head of the Geographical Institute in Braunschweig , but because of the Second World War he was only able to exercise the post from 1945. From 1948 he was there adjunct professor until 1955 as a full professor at the professorship of Hanover Technical University was appointed. From 1960 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , after he was admitted to the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in 1949 and to the Leopoldina in 1953 . In 1962 Poser returned to Göttingen as holder of the chair of geography, where he stayed until 1971. He was the recipient of the Carl-Ritter-Medal (1963) and the Ferdinand-von-Richthofen-Medal (1972) of the Geography Society , in addition he received the Albrecht-Penck-Medal (1992). The TU Braunschweig awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1986.

In addition to his dissertation and his habilitation, Poser made many other contributions to the periglacial morphology of the Arctic and the Pleistocene periglacial formation of Central Europe . He was also a pioneer in the field of Quaternary paleoclimatology . He also wrote the basis of tourism geography with his work Geographical Studies on Tourism in the Giant Mountains from 1939. Poser also enriched the geography of Lower Saxony through his stimulating teaching activities.

Furthermore, Hans Poser did a great job restoring the Geographical Institutes of Hanover and Braunschweig and building the new geography in Göttingen after the war. He also succeeded in re-establishing international scientific contacts in the post-war period , particularly in Poland and France .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1932: Some studies on the morphology of East Greenland . Reitzel, Copenhagen, DNB 365024015 .
  • 1933: Morphological studies from the Meißner area (= dissertation from 1930). In: Yearbook of the Geographical Society of Hanover for 1932 and 1933 . Pp. 121–177, Geographical Society Hannover, DNB 571031927 .
  • 1934: Comments on the structural soil problem . In: Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie . Pp. 39-45
  • 1936: Alpine farming and deserted buildings in the Giant Mountains . Gotha.
  • 1939: Geographical studies on tourism in the Giant Mountains . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, DNB 365024007 .
  • 1948: Soil and climatic conditions in Central and Western Europe during the Würm Ice Age . In: Geography .
  • 1950: For the reconstruction of the late glacial air pressure conditions in Central and Western Europe due to the ancient inland dunes . In: Geography .
  • 1951 (with Theodor Müller ): Studies on the asymmetrical valleys of the Lower Bavarian hill country . In: News from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, DNB 458782157 .
  • 1953–1960 (as editor): Studies on the periglacial phenomena in Central Europe (six publications). Self-published by the Geographical Institute of the University of Göttingen, DNB 454946171 .
  • 1967: North and Central America , geomorphology . Bibliographical Institute Mannheim.
  • 1974 (as editor): Geomorphological processes and process combinations in the present under different climatic conditions . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, ISBN 3-525-82103-4 .
  • 1977 (as editor): Shapes, societies of shapes and lower boundaries in today's periglacial altitudes of the high mountains of Europe and Africa between the Arctic and the equator . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, ISBN 3-525-82105-0 .
  • 1983 (as editor with Ekkehard Schunke): Mesoforms of the relief in today's periglacial space . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, ISBN 3-525-82109-3 .

literature

  • Jürgen Hövermann , Gerhard Oberbeck (Ed.): Hans Poser Festschrift . Dedicated to Hans Poser by colleagues, friends and students on his 65th birthday. Goltze, Göttingen 1972, DNB 720163951 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Hans Poser at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 5, 2016.
  2. ^ Poser, Hans. In: Lexicon of Geography. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  3. ^ Jürgen Hagedorn: Hans Poser 1907-1998 . In: Karl Arndt, Gerhard Gottschalk, Rudolf Smend (Hrsg.): Göttinger Gelehre. The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in portraits and awards 1751–2001 . 1st edition. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89244-485-5 , p. 618 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 3, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Poser, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geography professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1998
Place of death Goettingen