Rainer Brämer

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Rainer Brämer (* 1943 ) is a German physicist and university lecturer at the University of Marburg , where he and others a. a. the German Hiking Institute e. V. founded. He is the author of numerous publications on hiking . Rainer Brämer lives in Lohra .

Career

After studying physics from 1963 to 1969 with a diploma at the University of Marburg, he was a research assistant from 1969 to 1973 and received his doctorate in the Department of Experimental Physics at the University of Ulm .

Until 1979, he conducted research in the field of solid-state physics with a focus on X-ray structure analysis , then until 1990 he conducted studies in the sociology of schools and science teaching, as well as sociology in universities and the natural sciences until 1993. He has been researching the topic of hiking from a scientific point of view since 1991 and has also included sociological aspects in his studies of the relationship between young people and nature since 1992 .

Brämer regularly holds academic courses and has around 500 publications on these topics.

Hiking expert

Rainer Brämer is known as a German hiking expert and "hiking pope". His work focuses on the areas of nature education associate and are found in subjects such as nature subjective , youth and nature: hiking and walking: the initiative again. He lamented the young generation's alienation from nature, classified them in 1997 using the example of Bambi syndrome, and from then on worked against the infantile view in working groups. His research has been reflected in numerous reports and studies and has redefined hiking from both a natural-sociological and hiking-tourism perspective.

He reactivated the public perception of the hiking topic. Among other things, he noted that after decades of neglect of hiking the trails more and more transportation available meet developed country lanes gave way. At the end of the 1990s, as a result of his initiatives, a trend reversal began, brought about by the Rothaarsteig , the design of which is based on the wishes of modern hikers. Today Brämer is committed to many aspects of the hiking topic, for example new and renewed, varied hiking trails. He is involved in many relevant hiking tourism innovation processes and plans and projects hiking trails, long-distance hiking trails and hiking trails throughout Germany.

Brämer heads the hiking research group at the Institute for Sport and Educational Science, is a founding member and chairman of the German Hiking Institute e. V. and on the project partner hiking committee , which acts as a specialist advisor, expert and moderator, and he leads hiking tours.

Many profile studies on the subject of hiking with surveys on hiking habits, hiking motifs, route preferences, holiday wishes, pilgrims were created under his leadership.

Web links

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  1. ^ Rainer Brämer: Theses on the history of grammar school physics didactics in the Third Reich. In: Interaction No. 5, May 1980.
  2. Nature in your head - nature on foot. Archived from the original on May 27, 2012 (homepage with numerous articles on hiking, forest and nature).
  3. Study Purple Cow. Archived from the original on January 3, 2007 .
  4. Profile studies hiking. Archived from the original on September 10, 2011 .;