Manfred Frühauf

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Manfred Frühauf at the German Championships in the GDR in the junior pole vault in 1969

Manfred Frühauf (born June 15, 1950 in Klieken ; † November 3, 2019 ) was a German geographer , geoecologist and athlete . Frühauf had been a lecturer in physical geography since 1987 and professor of geoecology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg from 1993 .

Life

Frühauf was born as the oldest child of a new farmer family. He first attended elementary school and a secondary school in Coswig . As a passionate athlete , he was able to go to the children's and youth sports school in Halle from 1966 , where he passed the Abitur in 1970 . In the pole vault he was GDR junior champion and in 1973 for the SC Chemie Halle GDR champion.

In 1970, Frühauf began studying geography at the University of Halle. His interests were mainly geomorphology and soil geography . He completed his studies in 1975 with a diploma thesis on the geographic soil characteristics of the urban area of Halle-Neustadt . This was followed by an apprenticeship , where his studies led him to the Harz Mountains and the eastern Harz foreland, an area he has felt connected to since then. In 1981 he received his doctorate from the University of Halle with the dissertation Landscape Ecological Studies on Soil and Substrate in the eastern Harz foreland and Lower Harz to a doctorate in natural sciences .

Afterwards, Frühauf took on a scientific assistant at the Geography section of the Mathematical-Natural-Scientific-Technical Faculty of the Martin Luther University and completed his habilitation there in 1987 with the habilitation thesis Contributions to lithology, the genesis of spatial distribution and the significance of the silt-rich sediment elements of the periglacial loose material cover in the low mountain ranges - shown using the example of the Harz (GDR part) . After a four-month study visit to the Lomonossow University in Moscow , Frühauf was appointed an unscheduled lecturer at the University of Halle. As such, he published his first work on the problem of soil pollution with heavy metals in urban areas as early as 1988 .

After the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Frühauf became a guest lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1990 and a full professor of geoecology at the Institute for Geography at the Martin Luther University in Halle in 1993 . Initially connected with the appointment was the establishment of the geoecology department and its scientific orientation. Based on his experiences and contacts in the 1980s, he was able to deepen his collaboration with Eastern European colleagues. From 1990 to 1996, Frühauf was director of the Institute for Geography. From 2000 to 2002 he was Vice Dean and from 2003 to 2005 Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences at Martin Luther University, and from 2010 to 2014 he was the managing director of the now new Institute for Geosciences and Geography of Faculty III of Natural Sciences. Under his leadership, the move to the new institute building on the Weinberg Campus with the geological garden in Halle was completed in 2004 .

A high point of his work was the co-organization of projects on the problem of soil degradation caused by climate change and land use , especially of the Eurasian steppe belt . He managed to raise funds for two larger international joint projects from the Volkswagen Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . He was the joint project manager of the KULUNDA project in which more than 30 scientists from 16 German and Russian universities and large research institutions worked together. In order to bring the research project to a successful conclusion in 2016, he postponed his retirement for another year.

Manfred Frühauf died on November 3, 2019 at the age of 69. He was buried on December 6th in Halle's Stadtgottesacker . For many years he was chairman of the Geography Association in Halle and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Karstlandschaft Südharz biosphere reserve . For his services, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Smolensk in 2007 , an honorary doctorate from the Bashkir State University in 2009, and in 2017, as the first foreign scientist, an honorary doctorate from the Altai State Pedagogical University . Manfred Frühauf was the author of over 150 specialist publications as well as co-editor of the Halle Yearbook for Geosciences , the Halle Studies for Geography and the Hercynia magazine .

Publications (selection)

  • Necessity and challenges for applied climate impact research in Saxony-Anhalt. First considerations and perspectives. State Office for Environmental Protection Saxony-Anhalt, Halle 2007.
  • Halle and its surroundings. Geographic excursion guide. with Klaus Friedrich , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2002, ISBN 978-3-89812-167-5 .
  • Geoscientific environmental research in central Germany. Anthology of the 3rd conference on geographic environmental research in Central Germany as part of the University Partnership Halle-Jena-Leipzig at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. as editor, UZU, Halle 1998, ISBN 978-3-86010-540-5 .
  • Special features of the landscape and environmental problems in the Mansfelder Land. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-428-08583-5 .
  • The East Harz. Geography and history of a central German landscape. as co-author, Geografische Gesellschaft zu Lübeck, Lübeck 1993.
  • Meyer's nature guide: Harz. as co-author, Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1992, ISBN 978-3-411-07201-9 .
  • Problems of evaluation of land use and soil protection in urban regions. as co-author, Institute for Geography and Geoecology, Berlin 1990.
  • The Harz and its foreland. as co-author, Institute for Geography and Geoecology, Leipzig 1989.
  • Contributions to the lithology, genesis, spatial distribution and spatial significance of the silt-rich sediment elements of the periglacial loose material cover in the low mountain ranges. ( Habilitation thesis ), Halle 1986.
  • Landscape ecological studies of soil and substrate in the eastern Harz foreland and Lower Harz. ( Dissertation ), Halle 1981.

literature

  • Gerd Schmidt: On the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Manfred Frühauf. In: Hercynia . Issue 48, pp. 1–4, hall 2015. ( digitized )
  • Alexander Schultz: Martin Luther University Halle The hero of the steppe researches in Siberia. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , Halle, November 25, 2002. ( digitized )

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personal data
SURNAME Early up, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer, geoecologist and athlete
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Paws
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 2019