Max Eckert-Greifendorff

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Max Eckert-Greifendorff, 1935

Friedrich Eduard Max Eckert-Greifendorff (born April 10, 1868 as Friedrich Eduard Max Eckert in Chemnitz , † December 26, 1938 in Aachen ) was a German geographer and map theorist .

Life

Eckert studied geography and economics in Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1895 with Friedrich Ratzel with the dissertation The cart problem. The story of its solution. In 1898 he published the extremely successful New Methodical School Atlas , which was criticized by Hermann Haack (Leipzig, later Halle / Saale, 1898, 75th edition 1923). From 1900 he was a senior teacher and private lecturer in Leipzig until he qualified as a professor at Kiel University in 1903 . From 1904 to 1907 he headed the Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel ; His plan of commercial geography (2 volumes, Leipzig, 1905) dates from that time . With the Economic Atlas of the German Colonies (Berlin, 1912) Eckert presented a fundamentally new work at Verlag Reimer to the work of the colonial cartographers Paul Sprigade and Max Moisel .

From 1907 to 1937 he was professor for economic geography and cartography at RWTH Aachen University . Between 1922 and 1937 he was Dean of the Faculty of General Sciences. After the First World War , the focus of his work shifted to cartography. With his two-volume main work Die Kartenwissenschaft (Berlin, 1921 and 1925) he created the basis for scientifically sound cartography. Eckert is therefore considered the founder of cartography as an academic discipline. He also developed six new map projections .

Although Eckert was never a member of the NSDAP, in March 1933 he was the only university professor in Aachen to sign an appeal from 300 university professors to vote for Adolf Hitler . The commitment of German professors to Adolf Hitler by November 1933 no longer signed Eckert already. He was a representative of a ethno-racial geography and represented the idea of ​​colonialism.

In addition, he counted as a founding member and 1st chairman of the "Verein Studentenwerk Aachen" and in 1910 as the founder of the Committee for Natural Monument Preservation. Furthermore, he was the initiator of the construction of the first cafeteria in Aachen, 1920. Until his death he was a member of the Aachen student union Turnerschaft Rheno-Borussia .

Max Eckert-Greifendorff died on December 26, 1938 after an unfortunate fall of a fractured skull at home. He found his final resting place in the cemetery in Löbau (Saxony). A street in Aachen was named in his honor.

See also

Fonts (selection)

  • Cultural geography of the German Empire and its relations to foreign countries. 3., rework. Ed., Schroedel, Halle as 1904 (digitized version )
  • German cultural geography. Schroedel, Halle as 1912 (digitized version )
  • The map science. 2 volumes. Association of Scientific Publishers, Berlin / Leipzig 1921/1925.
  • New textbook of geography. 2 parts. Stilke, Berlin 1931–1935.
  • Map customer. De Gruyter, Berlin 1936.
  • Cartography, its tasks and significance for contemporary culture. De Gruyter, Berlin 1939.

literature

Web links

Commons : Max Eckert-Greifendorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive for Geography of the Leibnitz Institute for Regional Geography (ed.): Findbuch Max Eckert-Greifendorff . S. 2 .
  2. ↑ RWTH Aachen (Ed.): Course catalog of RWTH Aachen in the winter semester 1934-1935 . Aachen 1934, p. 8 .
  3. ↑ Armin Heinen , Werner Tschacher, Stefan Krebs: RWTH's Politics of the Past from 1945 to 2004. ( Memento from January 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) RWTH press release, last update 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Eckert-Greifendorff, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckert, Friedrich Eduard Max (full name); Eckert, Max (name before 1934)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz , Saxony , Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1938
Place of death Aachen , Germany