Konrad Schliephake

Konrad Schliephake (born May 2, 1944 in Würzburg ) is a German geographer and was academic director at the University of Würzburg .

Schliephake studied geography with the minor subjects economics, oriental studies and geology in Giessen, Würzburg and Tunis. In 1969 he completed this with a diploma, in 1972 he did his doctorate in Giessen. From 1971 to 1975 he was a research assistant at the Institute for African Studies, Hamburg. From 1975 he worked at the Department of Geography at the University of Würzburg. From 1980 to 1985 he worked as a regional planner at the Ministry of Planning in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and then again at the University of Würzburg. In 2009 he retired.

In his childhood, which he spent partly because of a visiting professorship from his father Erwin Schliephake in Alexandria , Egypt , Schliephake learned Arabic.

His main research areas are

• Use and scarcity of natural resources, especially water, in the Arab countries,
• the spatial development under the influence of industrialization and traffic expansion as well
• the mobility of people and goods in the field of supply and demand.

Fonts (selection)

• ed. with Ghazi Shanneik: Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (= series of publications on German-Arab relations. Issue 3). Ed. Shanneik, Berlin / Irbid 2001.
• ed. with Winfried Schenk: General Anthropogeography (= Perthes Geography College ). Klett-Perthes, Gotha / Stuttgart 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Schliephake in the catalog of the German National Library
• Konrad Schliephake on the website of the University of Würzburg ( Memento from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )