Josef March (geographer)

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Josef March (born May 9, 1892 in Munich ; † August 28, 1955 there ) was a German geographer and newspaper scholar .

Life

After graduating from high school and participating in the First World War , Josef March studied geography. His teachers included Karl Haushofer and Erich von Drygalski , among others . At an unclear point in time during the First World War or in the post-war period, März was active in the Abwehr and in the Reichswehr Ministry. According to an obituary from 1955, this aroused his interest in geopolitical issues, which Haushofer further promoted.

In March 1923, the dissertation was published as an independent book, which was devoted to the base politics of the great powers.

In the 1930s, March became a member of the Department for German Political and Economic Studies and the Southeast Committee of the German Academy .

In 1940 March was appointed to the University of Prague , where he was an associate professor until the end of the Second World War, where he held the specially created chair for newspaper studies. He benefited from the dismissal of the ancient historian Otto Stein , whose position in the university budget was transferred to him during the course of the Aryanization of the university . Shortly before the end of the war, March fled Prague to Bavaria .

After the Second World War he was a state stenographer in Munich. In 1952 he was appointed to the government council of the Bavarian State Office for Shorthand. March 1955 died of a heart attack.

In March 1940, the Regency Council of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia awarded the Grand Officer's Star of the Order of Saint Sawa for Art and Science.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the political geography of the bases, positions and related growth phenomena. 1922.
  • Land powers and sea powers. , 1928.
  • The Adriatic Question. 1933.
  • Otto the Great. 1936.
  • Sea control. 1937.
  • Josef II, emperor and settlement politician. 1938.
  • Yugoslavia. Problems from space, people and economy. 1938.
  • The language of the Tabor Black Book. 1939.
  • Introduction to the Political Problems of the Pacific Ocean. 1942.
  • Shape change of the southeast. 1942.

literature

  • Alfred Malaschofsky: Josef March (1892-1955). Obituary in: Südost-Forschungen. 18, 1959, pp. 176-178.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Stefan Albrecht: The "Sudetendeutsche Geschichtsschreibung" 1918-1960 , 2008, p. 83.
  2. ↑ Deutsche Akademie: German Culture in the Life of the Nations , 1940, Issue 15, No. 1–3, p. 497.
personal data
SURNAME March, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and newspaper scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1955
Place of death Munich