Helmuth Kanter

Helmuth Kanter (born September 20, 1891 in Königsberg (East Prussia) , † January 8, 1976 in Marburg (Lahn) ) was a German geographer .

Life

The officer's son Kanter studied medicine and natural sciences in Munich, Marburg, Berlin, Rostock and Hamburg. From 1914 to 1919 he did military service, a. a. as a field doctor. After the medical state examination (1919), he was in 1921 at the University of Hamburg Dr. med. PhD. In 1922 a second doctorate followed to become Dr. rer. nat. in Hamburg. In 1923/24 Kanter traveled to the Dutch East Indies , East Asia and South America as a ship doctor . In the following years Kanter, a pupil and nephew of Siegfried Passarge , worked as an assistant at the Department of Geography at the University of Hamburg. In 1931 he joined the NSDAP , and in November 1933 he signed the confession of German professors about Adolf Hitler . In 1932 he was appointed a non-civil servant associate professor in Hamburg, in 1938 he was appointed full professor of geography at the University of Marburg , but was dismissed there in 1945. In 1958 he was given the chair back and retired in 1959.

Fonts

• The spread of the trematodes parasitizing in humans . Hamburg 1921 (medical dissertation)
• The loess in China , Hamburg (diss.) 1922 ISBN 978-3-11-117263-7
• Calabria , Hamburg 1930
• Libya: Geographical and Medical Studies , 1967 ISBN 978-3-540039259

literature

• Carl Schott (ed.): Contributions to the cultural geography of the Mediterranean countries. Helmuth Kanter in memory , Marburg 1977
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 298 ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Who's it 1935 , X edition. Edited by Herrmann AL Degener , Berlin 1935, p. 781.

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmuth Kanter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rostock matriculation