Karl-Heinz Dietzel

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Karl-Heinz Dietzel (born August 16, 1893 in Dresden ; † November 3, 1951 in Marburg ) was a German geographer and ethnologist .

Dietzel studied anthropology , geography, history, law and German at Leipzig University, a. a. with Joseph Partsch , Hans Meyer (Africa explorer) and Karl Weule . In 1917 he received his doctorate in geography on the Central African lake region and in 1920 passed the state examination in geography, German studies and history. He completed his legal clerkship at the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig . He became an assistant at the Institute for Colonial Geography in Leipzig, headed by Hans Meyer since 1915. Dietzel completed his habilitation in South Africa in 1932 and undertook research trips to West Africa . In 1938 he took over the institute and professorship for colonial geography at the University of Leipzig from Heinrich Schmitthenner . Dietzel was a member of the DDP 1919-1920, scientific director in the Reichskolonialbund , member of the NSDAP since 1937, member of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt since 1933, in the NS-Lecturer Association since 1937.

Dietzel was evacuated by the US Army to Weilburg (Lahn) in 1945 and was a participant in the first conference of German anthropologists after World War II from September 19 to 21, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main. In 1946 he was appointed to the chair for overseas geography and ethnology of the tropics at the University of Marburg .

Fonts

  • Regional geography of Africa and South America (with Bernhard Brandt, ca.1910)
  • Attempt to geographically characterize the East African inter-lake area. (= Dissertation 1917)
  • Alexander von Humboldt's Descriptions of Nature and Culture (1923)
  • Colonial Studies. Hans Meyer on his seventieth birthday on March 22, 1928, offered by his friends, admirers and students (with Hans Rudolphi , 1928)
  • Colonizing Germans: Reports by Famous Colonial Germans (with Kurt Kietz, 1934)
  • The South African Union. How it came about and what it was (Supplement to the Colonial Review, No. 1, 1934)
  • The German colonies. A historical-geographical representation of their becoming and essence. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1935.
  • German Colonial Policy 1884-1914 and its Lessons (1936)
  • Habitat Issues for European Peoples, Volume I: Europe (1939)
  • The basics of German colonial policy before the World War (War Lectures of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Europe and the Colonies, 1941)
  • Habitat issues of European peoples, Volume 2: Europe's colonial supplementary areas (with Oskar Schmieder and Heinrich Schmitthenner , 1941)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5783, p. 295 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Dietzel, Karl-Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietzel, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1951
Place of death Marburg