Karl Adalbert Sedlmeyer

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Karl Adalbert Sedlmeyer (born April 1, 1904 in Budweis , † March 14, 1988 in Brannenburg ) was a German geographer . Sedlmeyer was Professor of Geography at the German University in Prague and at the University of Regensburg .

Life

Sedlmeyer attended elementary school and grammar school in Budweis. From 1922 to 1926 he studied geography and physics at the German University in Prague . For a few semesters he also attended the universities in Vienna , Breslau and Munich . In 1926 he received his doctorate at the University of Prague with the dissertation The precipitation on the south side of the Ore Mountains as a function of the altitude and the angle of slope to the doctor of natural sciences .

From 1927 Sedlmeyer was an assistant at the Geographical Institute of the German University in Prague, where he also completed his habilitation in 1930 and taught geography as a private lecturer .

Later he took a job at the Vienna War Archives . From 1937 to 1941 he received an extraordinary professorship for geography at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the German University in Prague and from 1938 to 1939 he was also head of the Geographic Institute. At the beginning of April 1939 Sedlmeyer became a member of the NSDAP , he was also a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare . From 1941 he took on a teaching position at the University of Rostock . Sedlmeyer did military service in the Wehrmacht from 1942 until the end of the Second World War . In 1945 he became an American prisoner of war , from which he was released in 1946.

In the same year, until 1950, he became a lecturer at the Philosophical-Theological University in Dillingen an der Donau . In 1952 he followed the call as professor for geography, climatology and economic geography at the Regensburg University, where he worked until 1955. From 1962 to 1968 Seldmeyer was a lecturer at the German Armed Forces School for Intelligence in Bad Ems and was appointed to the senior government council.

Sedlmeyer was a founding member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Collegium Humanum , the German Pestalozzi Society and the Collegium Carolinum, as well as the district chairman of the Federation of Expelled Germans . In 1980 he received the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft's Culture Prize for Science .

His written heritage with a maturity from 1952 to 1971 is located in the Bavarian State Archives in Munich .

Publications (selection)

  • Lake research in the High Tatras. Carpathian Association, Kesmark 1928.
  • Characteristics of the temperature of the air and the sea surface on the Dutch coast. Geographical Institute of the German University, Prague 1928.
  • The lakes of the Mengsdorf valley and the Tschirmersee in the High Tatras. Hydrographic studies 1928/29. Geographical Institute of the German University, Prague 1930.
  • A contribution to the climatology of the pond. Neumann, Berlin 1931,
  • The natural landscapes of the Sudetenland. Deuticke, Vienna 1941.
  • On the geography of hunger. A sociological study. Pick, Hagen 1962.
  • Regional studies of the Soviet Union. Bernard et al. Graefe, Frankfurt 1968.
  • Country studies of Czecho-Slovakia. Bernard et al. Graefe, Frankfurt 1973, ISBN 978-3-7637-5122-8 .
  • Ceske Budejovice. Budweiser and Stritschitzer language island. as editor , Bergemann and Mayr, Miesbach 1979.

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SURNAME Sedlmeyer, Karl Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceske Budejovice
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1988
Place of death Brannenburg