Horst-Günter Wagner

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Horst-Günter Wagner (born May 19, 1935 in Chemnitz ) is a German geographer. From 1975 to 2000 he was a professor at the University of Würzburg .

Life

In 1962 Wagner studied geography, history and German for a higher teaching post. He received his doctorate in 1960 under Horst Mensching and Julius Büdel , and his habilitation took place in 1967 at the TU Hannover . After that, Wagner was Professor of Geography at Kiel University from 1970 to 1975 . From 1975 to 2000 he held the Chair of Economic Geography at the University of Würzburg .

His areas of work are economic geography in the Mediterranean, in North and West Africa, in the Caucasus region and in Lower Franconia.

Publications

  • (with Horst Mensching ): Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 152 Würzburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 5.3 MB)
  • Climatological observations in Southeast Svalbard 1960 . Wiesbaden 1965 = result. d. Stauferland expedition H. 10
  • The cultural landscape on Vesuvius . An agrogr. Structural analysis. Hanover 1967, = Jb.d. Geogr. Hannover Society
  • Population geography of North Africa (Tunisia, Eastern Algeria), Berlin 1981, Afrika-Kartenwerk d. DFG, sheet 8
  • Settlement geography North Africa (Tunisia, Eastern Algeria), Berlin 1983, Afrika-Kartenwerk d. DFG, sheet 9
  • Economic and spatial consequences of road construction projects in West African countries , Cameroon, Burkina-Faso, Mali, Sierra Leone. Würzburg 1984, = Würzb. Geographical work 62
  • Overpopulation, agricultural sustainability and their geo-ecological basis in West Africa . Pp. 167-209 in: Lindauer, M. u. A. Schöpf (Ed.): The earth, our living space. Overpopulation and underpopulation as problems of population dynamics. Stuttgart 1987
  • Mezzogiorno. Cologne 1991, = Problem Areas in Europe, Vol. 10
  • Economic geography . Braunschweig. 3rd edition 1998, = The Geographic Seminar (Westermann)
  • The urban development of Würzburg 1814-2000. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 396-426 and 1298-1302.
  • Mediterranean area , Darmstadt, 2nd edition 2011, 229 pp., Scientific Book Society, Länderkunden series
  • together with Helga Wagner: The changes in the agricultural landscape in the middle Leinetal. A case study from southern Lower Saxony on historical economic geography . Würzburg 2016, 132 pp., 25 ills., Literature. ISSN 0931-8623. Würzburg Geographical Manuscripts 84.

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Horst-Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz