Heinz Sanke

Heinz Friedrich Wilhelm Sanke (born March 28, 1915 in Berlin ; † March 25, 1997 there ) was a German geographer . The professor for political and economic geography was rector of the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1965 to 1967 .

Life

Heinz Sanke, the son of an advertising clerk , graduated from the Friedrich-Ebert-Oberrealschule Berlin in 1934 , graduated from the Berlin Business School in 1938 as a business school graduate, and received his doctorate there in 1941 with the properties, test methods and the selection of technical lubricants, metalworking and corrosion protection agents of mineral origin from the point of view of the industrial businessman and then served in the Wehrmacht until the end . In 1945 he joined the KPD and headed the vocational school in Werneuchen . 1946–1947 he taught at the FDGB federal school . At the end of 1948 he passed the oral teaching examination in geography at Humboldt University. His above-mentioned dissertation was recognized as evidence. Heinz Sanke qualified as Dr. sc. oec. (Economics) and in the same year headed the Institute for Economic Geography at Humboldt University as professor. From 1951 he worked as a full professor.

After 1967, Heinz Sanke reformed the training of certified teachers as part of the university reform in his field. In the German Academy of Sciences he was on the board of the Geography section.

Heinz Sanke retired in 1980. He died at the age of 82 and found his final resting place in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in Berlin.

Honors

• 1951 German Peace Medal
• 1959 Alexander von Humboldt Medal
• 1959 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1966 in silver, 1975 in gold)
• 1964 Hermann Haack Medal of the Geographical Society of the GDR
• 1975 honorary member of the Geographical Society of the GDR
• 1975: Karl-Heinz Wirzberger : Results from research on the problem of urban-rural relationships, settlement, traffic and population geography and their methods. Prof. Dr. sc. Dedicated to Heinz Sanke on the occasion of his 60th birthday
• September 3, 1980 on the occasion of the V University Conference of the GDR : Honored University Professor of the German Democratic Republic
• 1983 National Prize of the GDR 2nd class for science and technology for his scientific achievements in the preparation and design of the "Atlas of the German Democratic Republic"

Works (selection)

• The petroleum economy of imperialism in its geographical bases. 107 pages. People and Knowledge , Berlin 1951
• The lie of living space . People and Knowledge, Berlin 1955
• Alexander von Humboldt's socio-geographical conception . People and Knowledge, Berlin 1959
• Socio-geographical views of the great geographers of Berlin and its university. In: Research and work. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Humboldt University in Berlin. 1810-1960 , Volume 1, Berlin 1960, pp. 319-338.
• Development and current problems of political and economic geography in the German Democratic Republic. 33 pages. Meeting reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, class for philosophy, history, political science, law and economics. 1962, No. 4
• Lessons as a sequence of tasks. Scientific publication series of the Humboldt University in Berlin, 1965
• Technical revolution and vocational training. Scientific publication series of the Humboldt University of Berlin, 1967
• Development problems of the geographical sciences . 31 pages. Meeting reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Class for philosophy, history, political science, law and economics. 1968, No. 9
• On the past, present and future development of regional and international geographic research and teaching using the example of the Geography Section of the Humboldt University. Department of Geography at the Humboldt University, Berlin 1980, series: Berlin geographical works

editor

• Political and Economic Geography . 574 pages. Institute for Political and Economic Geography at the Humboldt University in Berlin. German Science Publishing House , Berlin 1956
• German fascism in Latin America. 1933-1943 . 204 pages. Humboldt University, Berlin 1966
• Germany, Soviet Union. From five decades of cultural cooperation. 543 pages. Humboldt University, Berlin 1966

literature

• Horst Kant :  Sanke, Heinz Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Hans-Dietrich Schultz: Two Geographies or One? Heinz Sanke's 'System of Geographical Sciences' in the service of a 'class' education and politics. P. 661–681 in: Heinz-Elmar Tenorth , Volker Hess, Dieter Hoffmann: History of the University of Unter den Linden 1810-2010: Practice of their disciplines. Volume 6: Self-Assertion of a Vision. 764 pages. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-05-008919-9
• Christiane Scheil: Heinz Sanke - scientist or ideologist? A contribution to the history of geography in the GDR. In: The President of the Humboldt University of Berlin (ed.): News from the history of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Vol. 4 . 138 pages. Verlag Humboldt-Univ., Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813135-9-8 . Table of contents as a 2-page PDF

Web links

• Heinz Sanke in the German biography
• Heinz Sanke. Rector of the Humboldt University in Berlin 1965–1967
• Elke-Barbara Peschke: Rectors and Presidents of the University of Unter den Linden (PDF) In: Thomas Richter (Ed.): News from the history of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , Volume 3. Verlag Humboldt-Univ., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978 -3-9813135-8-1 , pp. 242-243

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in WorldCat
2. ↑ Schultz, p. 662 below
3. ↑ Schultz, p. 663 above
4. ↑ Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 World Biographical Information System Online ; accessed on September 9, 2016.
5. ↑ Entry in WorldCat