Karl Ruppert (geographer)

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Karl Ruppert (born January 15, 1926 in Offenbach am Main ; † March 29, 2017 ) was a German geographer. He was assigned to the Munich School of Social Geography .

Life

In the Second World War Ruppert was initially an air force helper , then he did military service in Italy, where he was captured. After his return he studied mathematics, physics and geography at the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he received his doctorate in 1952 under Wolfgang Hartke . In the same year Ruppert married his wife Imgard (née Schmidt), and the marriage resulted in a daughter. Shortly afterwards, he and Hartke moved to the Technical University of Munich .

Ruppert worked at the TH Munich for twelve years as a research assistant or university lecturer. He completed his habilitation in 1959, supported by a grant from the German Research Foundation . In 1964, Ruppert took over, initially on a substitute basis, a professorship in economic geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as the successor to Erich Thiel . He turned down appointments to the TH Munich and later to the University of Bonn . In 1991 Ruppert retired. He was also head of the Bavarian regional working group for spatial research and regional planning (1974–1979), vice-president of the Academy for spatial research and regional planning (1979–1982) and presidential member of the Munich Southeast Europe Society (1988–2000). Ruppert died on March 29, 2017 at the age of 91.

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Basic functions of existence, weighted according to frequency of traffic participation

Ruppert's research topics were initially influenced by Wolfgang Hartke in agricultural geography . He also dealt with the phenomenon of social fallow land . At the LMU Munich, Ruppert and his colleagues, in particular Franz Schaffer and Jörg Maier , developed a conception of social geography as a “science of the spatial forms of organization and space-forming processes of the functions of human groups and societies”. This application-oriented definition of the subject was shaped by the guiding principle of socio-spatial separation of functions , which also characterized the spatial planning in Germany at that time . Ruppert dealt in particular with what he called the “geography of leisure behavior”, with which he expanded the previously thematically narrowly defined tourism geography at the intersection of social and economic geography and supplemented it with a spatial perspective.

Ruppert and other representatives of the so-called " Munich School " wrote the first German-language textbook on social geography. The work, published in 1977, has been translated into several languages. However, it was never able to convincingly invalidate criticism of terminology and theoretical conception expressed at an early stage.

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The importance of viticulture and its successor cultures for the socio-geographical differentiation of the agricultural landscape in Bavaria (=  Münchner geographische Hefte . Volume 19 ). Laßleben, Kallmünz 1960 (habilitation thesis).
  • Jörg Maier , Karl Ruppert, Reinhard Paesler, Franz Schaffer : Social geography . Westermann, Braunschweig 1977, ISBN 3-14-160297-2 .

Essays

  • The change in the socio-geographical structure in the image of the landscape . In: The Earth . tape 86 , no. 1 , 1955, pp. 53-62 ( online ).
  • To the definition of the term "social fallow land" . In: Geography . tape 12 , no. 3 , 1958, pp. 226-231 , JSTOR : 25636499 .
  • The group-typical response range - thoughts on a socio-geographical working hypothesis . In: Munich studies on social and economic geography . tape 4 , 1968, p. 171-176 .
  • Karl Ruppert and Franz Schaffer: On the conception of social geography . In: Geographical Rundschau . tape 21 , no. 6 , 1969, p. 205-214 .
  • Karl Ruppert and Jörg Maier: On the location of tourism geography - attempt of a concept . In: Munich studies on social and economic geography . No. 6 , 1970, pp. 9-36 .
  • To position and structure a general geography of leisure behavior . In: Geographical Rundschau . tape 27 , no. 1 , 1975, p. 1-6 .

literature

  • Konrad Goppel and Franz Schaffer (eds.): Spatial planning in the 90s: Basics, concepts, political challenges in Germany and Europe - Bavaria in focus. Festschrift for Karl Ruppert (=  Applied Social Geography . No. 24 ). Augsburg 1991, ISBN 3-923273-24-X .
  • Franz Schaffer and Wolfgang Poschwatta (eds.): Applied social geography: Karl Ruppert on his 60th birthday (=  applied social geography . No. 12 ). Augsburg 1986, ISBN 3-923273-12-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Franz Schaffer : Social geography in the service of the public - Franz Ruppert on his 65th birthday . In: Konrad Goppel and Franz Schaffer (eds.): Spatial planning in the 90s: Basics, concepts, political challenges in Germany and Europe - Bavaria in focus. Festschrift for Karl Ruppert (=  applied social geography ). No. 24 . Augsburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-923273-24-9 , pp. 1-11 .
  2. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online, accessed on April 11, 2017.
  3. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 8, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2017 .
  4. ^ Gunter Leng: On the “Munich” conception of social geography . In: Geographical Journal . tape 61 , no. 2 , 1973, p. 121-134 , JSTOR : 27817501 .
  5. ^ Eugen Wirth : The German social geography in its theoretical conception and in its relation to sociology and geography of the people . In: Geographical Journal . tape 65 , no. 3 , 1977, pp. 161-187 , JSTOR : 27817927 .
  6. ↑ Günter Heinritz: A triumphant move into the sidelines . In: Geographical Rundschau . tape 51 , no. 1 , 1999, p. 52-56 .
personal data
SURNAME Ruppert, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH 29th March 2017