Max Friederichsen

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Maximilian Hermann Friederichsen (born June 21, 1874 in Hamburg ; † August 22, 1941 there ) was a German university professor of geography .

The son of the Hamburg cartographer and publisher Ludwig Friederichsen graduated from high school in 1892 and studied geography and natural sciences in Marburg, Munich and Berlin. From 1897 to 1898 he traveled to the Caucasus in the Ural Mountains , in 1898 he did his doctorate with Ferdinand von Richthofen in Berlin, in 1902 he took part in a research trip with Vasily Vasilyevich Saposhnikov to the Tian Shan in Armenia . 1903 followed the habilitation for geography in Göttingen . In 1906 he was appointed associate professor in Rostock , and in 1907 he was appointed full professor of geography at the University of Bern . In 1909 he moved to the University of Greifswald (successor to Rudolf Credner ), in 1917 to the Albertina Königsberg (successor to FG Hahn ), until he accepted an appointment at the University of Breslau in 1923 (successor to Wilhelm Volz ), where he worked until his forced retirement in 1937. This took place because of his wife's Jewish ancestry in accordance with the law for the restoration of the civil service . This measure was a humiliation, since a proper retirement was denied.

During the First World War , Friederichsen headed the regional studies commission in the German Generalgouvernement Warsaw from 1915 to 1917 (1915-1918) . With his publications in the Weimar Republic he placed himself in the service of a German-national politics.

In 1926 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • The southern and central Urals , Hamburg 1898
  • Research trip to the central Tiën-shan and Djungarian Ala-tau (Russian Central Asia) in the summer of 1902
  • Travel letters from Russian Central-Asia , 1902 ISBN 9783111230801
  • Western Pomerania's coasts and seaside resorts. Bruncken & Co., Greifswald 1912 ( digitized version )
  • with H. Wagner : Textbook of Geography. 1, General Geography , Hahn, Hanover 1912
  • Modern methods of exploring, describing and explaining geographic landscapes (1914)
  • The border marks of European Russia; their geographical characteristics and their significance for the world war. L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg 1915 ( digitized version )
  • Methodical Atlas of Regional Geography of Europe (1915)
  • Landscapes and cities of Poland and Lithuania. Contributions to a regional geography. On the basis of travel observations in the service of the "Regional Studies Commission at the Generalgouvernement Warsaw" (1918)
  • Finland, Estonia and Latvia, Lithuania (1924)
  • Contributions to the Silesian regional studies. The XXI. German Geographers' Days presented by the Geographical Institute of the University of Breslau (1925)
  • Upper Silesia torn apart , Breslau 1927
  • East Prussia: Germany's Northeastern Border Mark (1928)

literature

  • Berninger, Otto:  Friederichsen, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 449 ( digitized version ).
  • Czajka, Willy: Max Friederichsen, 1874–1941 . In: Reports on German regional studies 30, 1963, no. 1, pp. 83–94.
  • Knothe, Herbert (Ed.): From the German East. Max Friederichsen on his 60th birthday. - (Publications of the Silesian Geography Society and the Geographical Institute of the University of Wroclaw; 21), Wroclaw 1934.

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personal data
SURNAME Friederichsen, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friederichsen, Maximilian Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer, explorer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1941
Place of death Hamburg