Harald Standl

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Harald Standl (born January 2, 1959 in Selb ; † May 10, 2015 in Bayreuth ) was a German geographer as well as a high school and university teacher .

Life

After finishing school from 1966 to 1979, Standl studied geography, German studies and history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg between 1979 and 1987 in the field of teaching for grammar schools. After completing his master's degree and first state examination, Standl began working as a research assistant at the chair for cultural geography at the University of Bamberg in 1987 .

In 1992 he completed his doctorate on The Istanbul Industrial Space . Genesis of the location problems of the manufacturing industry in the Turkish economic metropolis at the University of Bamberg. After the fall of the Iron Curtain , Standl mainly dealt with the Baltic States , on whose post-socialist change in inner-city retail he completed his habilitation in 2000.

In addition to gentrification (e.g. Vilnius district Užupis ) and tourism geography, he dealt with the housing market problems in rural areas, especially in the "shrinking region" of northeast Bavaria. In addition, until 2007 he held the chair for Regional Economic Geography and Applied Anthropogeography at the University of Paderborn . After the institute closed in 2008, he passed his second state examination and was a teacher at the Graf-Münster-Gymnasium Bayreuth from 2009 until his death .

Standl was a founding member of the "Institute for Development Research in Rural Areas Upper and Middle Franconia (eV)", a practice-oriented regional research institution.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Istanbul industrial area. Genesis of the location structures and current location problems of the manufacturing industry in the Turkish economic metropolis. Bamberg Geographical Writings 14. Bamberg (1994)
  • The post-socialist transformation process in the metropolitan retail trade in East Central and Eastern Europe: The attempt to create types for the most recent changes in inner city structures as well as a model representation of the determinants that influence them. Europa regional / 6 (1998), pp. 2–15
  • STANDL, H. & D. KRUPICKAITĖ (2004): Gentrification in Vilnius (Lithuania) - the example of Užupis. In: Europa Regional 12 (1), 42–51. (= IGU Special Issue)
  • Housing market problems in rural western Germany: the example of the shrinking region of northeast Bavaria. In: Reports on German regional studies / 80 (2006) 3., 295–314
  • The Baltic States - a small regional overview. In: East-West. European Perspectives 7 (2006), no. 1, pp. 3–8

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personal data
SURNAME Standl, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer as well as high school and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Same
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2015
Place of death Bayreuth