Ludwig Schätzl

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Ludwig H. Schätzl (* 17th January 1938 in Ruhpolding , Upper Bavaria ) is a German emeritus professor of economic geography and former president of the University of Hannover .

Life

Ludwig Schätzl studied economics and geography at the University of Munich . In 1967 he received his doctorate there as part of his work from 1964 to 1968 as a research assistant at the Institute for Economic Geography. Until 1971 he conducted research in Nigeria at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER). In 1973 he completed his habilitation at the University of Giessen . After a professorship for anthropogeography at the Free University of Berlin , Schätzl accepted a professorship for economic geography at the University of Hanover in 1978.

From 1984 to 1986 Ludwig Schätzl was Vice President for Research and Central Facilities at the University of Hanover. In addition to his research and teaching activities, he headed the Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research , was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development and coordinator of the priority program “Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe” of the German Research Foundation . From 1997 to 2005 he was President of the University of Hanover, his successor was Erich Barke . Schätzl retired in 2006 . He is a member of the Academia Europaea and the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Petroleum Industry in Nigeria: An Economic Geographer. Sectoral analysis (Munich studies on social and economic geography; Vol. 2), Lassleben Kallmünz / Regensburg 1967
  • Spatial industrialization processes in Nigeria: industrial geographic analysis of a tropical developing country (Gießener geographische Schriften; Issue 31 = Special Issue 2), Geographical Institute of the Justus Liebig University, Gießen 1973

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