Otto Schlueter

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Otto Ludwig Karl Schlueter (born November 12, 1872 in Witten / Ruhr ; † October 12, 1959 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German geographer who mainly dealt with settlement geography .

Life

Schlüter was the son of a lawyer and completed his compulsory schooling in his hometown. Schlueter began to study geography, history, German philology and philosophy at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1891 he joined the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . When he switched to the same subjects at the Friedrichs University in Halle in 1892 , he also became active in the Corps Palaiomarchia Halle . With a doctoral thesis on settlement geography with Alfred Kirchhoff , he was awarded Dr. phil is doing his doctorate.

Since 1899 assistant to the Society for Geography, he completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1906 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and became a private lecturer at the University of Cologne and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . On February 15, 1911, he succeeded Alfred Philippson in Halle as full professor . Retired in 1938, Schlüter was again entrusted with a professorship for geography of the cultural landscape and for methodology of geography from 1948 to 1951. His final resting place is in the Laurentiuskirchhof in Halle .

Schlüter was a member of several geographic societies and associations for geography. He became Vice President of the Leopoldina in 1943 and its President in 1952/53, succeeding Emil Abderhalden . Kurt Mothes was his successor in 1954 . His achievements in settlement geography are scientifically outstanding. In 1952 he presented a map of the prehistoric settlement areas of Central Europe, which followed the old idea of ​​a relatively linear development, but impressively showed the changeability of the landscape and thus found its way into many school books.

Schlüter was married to Margret born in 1907 . Heyer , a leader of the charitable movement. She died early. Two sons died in World War II ; the third was the city master builder in Hanover. The deeply religious Otto Schlüter lived alone from 1948.

politics

Politically, Schlueter belonged to the right-wing conservative camp. In 1912 he became a member of the Reichskolonialbund , in 1915 of the Pan-German Association and, after the First World War, of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . At the end of 1918 he joined the German National People's Party . Since 1935 he belonged to the National Socialist People's Welfare and the National Socialist Old Men Association . After the Second World War, Schlüter became a member of the CDU .

Honors

Works

  • Remarks on settlement geography (1899)
  • Settlement studies of the valley of the Unstrut from the Sachsenburg gate to the mouth (1896)
  • Settlements in Central Europe in prehistoric times (1952–1954)
  • On the relationship between man and nature in anthropogeography (1907)
  • Goals of the Geography of Man (1906)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 35 , 553; 61 , 256.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 526.
  3. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , pp. 291f.
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlueter, Otto Ludwig Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten , Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1959
Place of death Halle , Saale