Munich School of Social Geography

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The Munich School of Social Geography is a school within social geography that combines the functionalist approach of Hans Bobeks (Bobek School) with the indicator approach of Wolfgang Hartke . This results in an approach with spatial planning relevance. The name arises from its origin at the Geographical Institute of the Technical University of Munich (today Geographical Department of the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Munich (LMU) ). It has significantly shaped geography as a social science discipline and is an essential part of the development and establishment of social geography. Outside of these narrow subject boundaries, however, it was almost ignored.

Munich geography was initially located at the Polytechnic School (later Technical University ). Here it was above all Wolfgang Hartke (from 1952 to 1975 full professor at the Geographical Institute of the TU) who

"[...] at the beginning of the [19] 1960s shook the almost taboo self-image of his discipline and showed German geography perspectives that took it from the ivory tower of antiquated landscape research and university geography to the broad field of socially relevant research."

- Heinz Fassmann

The Munich school exerted an influence on social geography, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. At the center of her interest are the basic functions of existence , including functions or basic needs, of society within a certain space. These are: living, working, taking care of yourself, educating yourself, relaxing, living in community, participating in traffic, participating in communication and (since 1979 also) disposing of it.

In the years after the great influence, the Munich social geography v. a. shaped by Günter Heinritz (1975–2006) and Herbert Popp (1994–1999) and later linked to newer approaches and further developed a. a. by Heinz Fassmann , Claus-Christian Wiegandt and Rainer Kazig .

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  1. a b c Werlen, Benno (2007): Social geography. In: Gebhardt, Glaser, Radtke & Reuber (Eds.) Geography. Physical geography and human geography. Heidelberg: spectrum. ISBN 9783827415431 , pp. 578-599.
  2. a b Werlen, Benno (³2008): Social geography. An introduction. Stuttgart: Main. ISBN 9783825219116
  3. Günter Heinritz: A triumphant move into the sidelines . In: Geographical Rundschau . tape 51 , no. 1 , 1999, p. 52-56 .
  4. Fassmann, Heinz & Geographisches Institut der TU München (1998): Festschrift for the Geographisches Institut 1998 ( Memento of March 8, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB), p. 5