Klaus Friedrich (geographer)

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Klaus Friedrich (* 1945 in Ermsleben ) is a German geographer and social geographer . Friedrich was a lecturer in geography at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1992 to 1996 and professor of social geography at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg from 1995 to 2011 .

Life

Friedrich studied geography and political science at the Technical University in Darmstadt from 1966 to 1971 . From 1971 he worked there as a research assistant , later as an academic councilor and senior councilor, at the Institute of Geography. In 1976 he received his doctorate in the Geosciences and Geography Department of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences with the dissertation of urban expansions in their geographical differentiation, examined on the basis of spatial perception and use of space using the example of the Darmstadt new building areas Eberstadt-NW and Neu-Kranichstein to obtain a doctorate in natural sciences . His work was published in 1978 in the monograph series Darmstädter Geographische Studien . In 1991 Friedrich completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The habilitation thesis on demographic aging processes in Germany and the USA appeared in 1995 under the title Aging in Spatial Environment. Socio-spatial interaction patterns of older people in Germany and in the USA in Steinkopff-Verlag.

From 1992 to 1996 Friedrich was a private lecturer and senior academic adviser at the Geography Institute of the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 1995 he took on a substitute professorship for social geography at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and was given a full professorship there in 1996 . His main research interests were demographic change , geographic aging research and regional change in modern societies. In 2011 he retired . Among other things, he was a member of the Demography Advisory Board of the Ministry for Regional Development and Transport of the State of Saxony-Anhalt , Chairman of the steering group of the Expert Group on Demographic Change in Saxony-Anhalt at the Saxony-Anhalt Science Center, member of the working groups on Population Geography, North America, Housing Market Research of the German Society for geography and employees in the study commission on demographic change of the German Bundestag . Klaus Friedrich is the author and editor of numerous specialist publications as well as co-editor of the Halle Yearbook for Geosciences .

Publications (selection)

  • Functional suitability and spatial evaluation of new residential areas. Investigation using the example of the Darmstadt development areas Eberstadt-NW and Neu-Kranichstein. ( Dissertation ), Issue 1 of the series: Darmstädter Geographical Studies. , Institute of Geography, Darmstadt 1978.
  • Spatial identification. Paradigm of a region-oriented spatial planning concept. Issue 5 of the series: Darmstadt Geographic Studies. , Institute of Geography, Darmstadt 1984.
  • Aging in the spatial environment. Socio-spatial interaction patterns of older people in Germany and the USA. ( Habilitation thesis ), Steinkopff, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 978-3-642-72495-4 .
  • Halle and its surroundings. Geographic excursion guide. with Manfred Frühauf , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2002, ISBN 978-3-89812-167-5
  • Demographic change as a cross-sectional task. Case studies from the expert platform on demographic change at the Saxony-Anhalt Science Center. as editor, Universitätsverlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-86977-051-2 .
  • Continuity and upheavals in the suburban mosaic of Saxony-Anhalt. The future of a housing market segment in a demographic change. as co-author, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86082-092-6 .

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