Hellmuth Barthel

Hellmuth Ernst Barthel (born March 1, 1927 in Waitzdorf ) is a German geographer .

Life

Barthel initially completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and attended the specialist school for the graphic arts in Dresden until 1944 . After the end of the Second World War he worked as a typesetter and graduated from high school in 1949 after attending the preparatory college in Dresden. He then studied geography from 1949 to 1954 at the University of Leipzig . Here he received his doctorate in 1960 with the thesis on the changes and consequences in the physical-geographical sphere of the cultural landscape between Zeitz and Weißenfels triggered by lignite mining and the lignite-refining industry . From 1959 Barthel worked as a senior assistant at the Technical University of Dresden , where he obtained his PhD B in 1971 on the subject of an attempt at a first overall representation of the climate and frozen soil in the Mongolian People's Republic . He was then initially a lecturer for physical geography and from 1974 until his retirement in 1993 professor for physical geography at the Institute for Cartography at the TU Dresden.

Fonts

• 1962 Lignite mining and landscape dynamics
• 1962: Hohnstein Polenztal in the Saxon Switzerland landscape protection area, Stolpen; 1st edition 1962 ( Our little hiking booklet , 104), 7th edition 1987 ( Tourist hiking booklet , 2)
• 1971: Mongolia - land between taiga and desert (3rd edition 1990)
• 1976: Mining, landscape, national culture in the German Democratic Republic
• 1985: Remote sensing - aerial and cosmos images in their significance for science and economics

literature

• Barthel, Hellmuth (Ernst). In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 63.