Peter Jurczek

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Peter Jurczek (born September 3, 1949 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 22, 2010 in Mistelgau ) was a German geographer and professor at the TU Chemnitz .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1969 and completing basic military service, Jurczek began studying geography, political science and education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1970 . He passed his first state examination for teaching at high schools in 1975, and a year later he obtained his geography diploma. From 1977 to 1993 Jurczek worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Geosciences at the University of Bayreuth . In 1980 he received his doctorate summa cum laude from Goethe University. phil., In 1987 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bayreuth with a thesis on "Spatial changes in holiday travel in the Federal Republic of Germany".

Between 1987 and 1994 Jurczek was a private lecturer in Bayreuth, and from 1990 lecturer for applied geography at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . At the University of Hamburg he acted as a substitute for the professorship for economic geography in 1991, before he was appointed to the chair for social and economic geography at the TU Chemnitz in 1994 . His main areas of work included tourism research, planning-oriented regional research, spatial planning and urban geography. In 2001 he was visiting professor at the University of Klagenfurt . Until 2009, Peter Jurczek attended courses in Chemnitz. He died in June 2010 after a long and serious illness.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Military and environment. Problems of military use of space ; in: Military Policy Documentation, no. 6, pp. 1-50, Stuttgart 1977.
  • Socio-spatial change processes in densely populated areas. Shown using the example of “living” in Frankfurt am Main-Bergen-Enkheim. Rhein-Mainische Forschungen, H. 95 (Diss.), Frankfurt am Main 1981.
  • Tourism in peripheral regions. Chances and limits of the tourist development of Wallenfels / Franconian Forest. Contributions to applied economic and social research, spatial science, vol. 3, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  • Tourism planning in the Federal Republic of Germany. Example Franconian Forest. European University Theses, Series X, Vol. 6, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York 1983.
  • City tourism in Upper Franconia. Contributions to local science, Vol. 21, Munich 1986.
  • Agriculture and land trade in Upper Franconia. Kronach / Munich / Bonn 1988.
  • Tourism and traffic in the "Land on the Romantic Road". Kronach / Munich / Bonn 1989.
  • Development concept for the spas and health resorts in the triangle of Bavaria, Saxony and Bohemia. Bayreuth 1993.
  • Planning proposals for northeast Bavaria from the point of view of municipal and regional decision-makers within the framework of the trilateral development concept. Chemnitz 1996.
  • Assessment of the development and cooperation in the Saxon-Bohemian border area. An assessment by residents of the Egrensis and Erzgebirge Euroregions. Chemnitz 1997.
  • For sustainable development in the Chemnitz-Zwickau economic region. A region grows together - a linden tree in every town and municipality. Chemnitz 2000.
  • Population development in the Free State of Saxony 1990–1999. Effects and Consequences. Local and regional scientific work results online, No. 2. Chemnitz 2001.
  • The Euregio Egrensis in thematic maps. Socio-economic structures and developments. Contributions to local and regional development, volume 43. Chemnitz 2005.
  • European Metropolitan Regions in Germany: a new spatial planning strategy in Europe. Local and regional scientific papers online, No. 16. Chemnitz 2008.
  • Conceptual considerations for the development and design of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the case of a united Korea. Local and regional scientific papers online, No. 19. Chemnitz 2009.
  • The "Saxon-Czech University Initiative" (STHI) - cross-border cooperation project to intensify cooperation between Saxon and Czech universities. Local and regional scientific papers online, No. 23. Chemnitz 2010.
  • Editor of the series of local and regional studies

literature

  • Bernhard Köppen / Uli Molter / Ilona Scherm (eds.): Geography knows no borders. For Peter Jurczek's 60th birthday . Festschrift. Chemnitz 2009. ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Jurczek, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2010
Place of death Mistelgau