Hansjörg Dongus

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Hansjörg Dongus (born February 9, 1929 in Öhringen ; † September 13, 2015 in Wangen im Allgäu ) was a German geographer and geomorphologist .

parents

Hansjörg Dongus was the son of the teacher Robert Walther Dongus from Leonberg and Dora born. Farmer from Öhringen. In 1944, his father was the head of the SS Race and Settlement Office in Prague.

Professional background

After training as a primary school teacher and four years as a teacher in Reutlingen, Hansjörg Dongus studied geography , geology , philosophy and education at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from 1953 to 1957 , with Friedrich Huttenlocher , Georg Wagner , Hölder and Eugen Seibold . He received his doctorate in 1957 and was then assistant at the Geography Institute in Tübingen until his habilitation in 1964. After a substitute professorship at the University of Stuttgart , he was Scientific Counselor and Associate Professor at the Saarland University from 1965 to 1968 . From 1968 until his retirement in 1994 he held a chair for physical geography at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Work areas

In his active time, Dongus represented practically the entire field of physical geography in research and teaching, but also came into contact with cultural and anthropogeography during his training. His main focus was the geomorphology, especially of the southern German layer level country and the Alps . In his teaching and his publications, he attached particular importance to a clear presentation supported by maps. Among other things, he was involved in the Geographical Land Survey 1: 200,000 (natural division of Germany) with five map sheets . With his conviction that the relief is not only climatically determined, but also tectonically and structurally determined, he came in opposition to Julius Büdel in a fundamental dispute in German geomorphology that had been going on for decades.

Fonts

  • Old land surfaces of the Eastern Alb. Research z. German cultural studies, Volume 134, Bad Godesberg 1962 (dissertation)
  • The agricultural landscape of the eastern Po plain. Tübingen Geographical Studies, special volume 2, Tübingen 1966 (habilitation thesis)
  • The surface forms of the Swabian Alb and its foreland. Marburg Geogr. Schr., Issue 72, Marburg 1977
  • The basic geomorphological structures of the earth. BG Teubner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-519-03418-2
  • The surface forms of southwest Germany - geomorphological explanations for topographical and geological overview maps. Borntraeger, Berlin, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-443-01042-3
  • The relief of the Alps. A text book for students to explain topographical overview maps. Marburger Geogr. Ges., Marburg 2003, ISBN 3-88353-068-9
  • Geographical survey of the country: The natural areas of Germany on a scale of 1: 200,000 :
    • Geographical survey: The natural units on sheet 171 Göppingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
    • Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 170 Stuttgart. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1949 ( Friedrich Huttenlocher ), revised and supplemented (Dongus) 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
    • Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 187/193 Lindau / Oberstdorf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1991. →  Online map (PDF; 6.1 MB)
    • Geographical survey of the country: The natural units on sheet 188/194 Kaufbeuren / Mittenwald. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1993. →  Online map (PDF; 6.4 MB)
    • Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 189/195 Tegernsee. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1994. →  Online map (PDF; 5.2 MB)

literature

  • Alfred Pletsch: Prof. em. Hansjörg Dongus on the occasion of his 70th birthday . In: Yearbook 1998 of the Marburg Geographical Society, Marburg / Lahn 1999, pp. 198–200 (with picture).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://trauer.schwaebische.de/Trauerbeispiel/Hansjoerg-Dongus obituary notice in the Schwäbische Zeitung from September 15, 2015
  2. ↑ Heinemann, Isabel: "Race, settlement, German blood. The SS race and settlement main office and the new racial and political order in Europe", Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2003
personal data
SURNAME Dongus, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and geomorphologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhringen
DATE OF DEATH 13th September 2015
Place of death Wangen in the Allgäu