Hans Schrepfer

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Hans Schrepfer (born May 21, 1897 in Frankfurt am Main , † March 25, 1945 in Würzburg ) was a German geographer . Most recently he was a professor at the University of Würzburg .

Life

After graduating from the Lessing Gymnasium in Frankfurt , Schrepfer began studying at the University of Frankfurt in 1916, although it initially only lasted one semester, since Schrepfer became a soldier in 1917. After the end of the First World War , he continued his studies of geography, geology, biology and mathematics, first in Frankfurt and then in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he received his doctorate in 1921. phil. nat. with a dissertation on The advent of summer and autumn in Germany as part of the phenological year doctorate was.

Schrepfer then became an assistant at the Geography Institute at the University of Frankfurt and later in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1924 he completed his habilitation there with a text Das Maintal between Spessart and Odenwald. A morphological study , became a private lecturer and from 1928 an associate professor .

After two teaching assignments in 1929 and 1931 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, a research trip to Newfoundland in 1932 and his entry into the SA , NSDAP and NS-Dozentbund , Schrepfer became provisional professor in 1934 and scheduled professor for geography at the college for teacher training in Weilburg in 1934 on the Lahn . From 1936 until his death, Schrepfer was professor of geography at the University of Würzburg , director of the Institute of Geography and at the same time lecturer at the local college for teacher training.

Hans Schrepfer was the victim of a bomb attack on Würzburg on March 3, 1945 , which resulted in his death three weeks later.

Act

Schrepfer was editor of the Rhein-Mainische Forschungen from 1930 to 1934 and co-editor of the Geography Journal from 1936 to 1944 . From 1936 to 1940 he was chairman of the German Geographers 'Congress and in 1942 head of the European Geographers' Congress in Würzburg. Schrepfer was also a member of the research work Forest and Tree in Aryan-Germanic intellectual and cultural history in the SS research and teaching community Das Ahnenerbe e. V.

In May 1939 he spoke on behalf of the Lecturer's Association at the inauguration of the Würzburg Institute for Hereditary Science and Race Research .

Fonts

  • Rhine-Main landscapes . Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M. 1934.
  • Unity and task of geography as a science . Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M. 1934.
  • Hermann Overbeck (Ed.): General Geography and Regional Geography: Selected Works to Commemorate His 70th Birthday on May 21, 1967 . F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1967.

literature

  • Erich Otremba : Hans Schrepfer 1897–1945 . In: Reports on German regional studies . tape 11 , 1952, pp. 478-483 .
  • Thomas Müller, Imaginierter Westen: the concept of the "German West Area" in the national discourse between political romanticism and National Socialism , Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1112-0 , p. 342 ff. In the Google book search.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Schrepfer, Hans. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Dataset of the dissertation in the DNB
  3. ^ Inauguration of the Institute for Hereditary Science and Race Research in Würzburg. In: Würzburger General-Anzeiger. May 11, 1939.
personal data
SURNAME Schrepfer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1945
Place of death Wurzburg