Rainer Loose

Rainer Loose (born June 4, 1946 in Berlin ) is a German geographer and professor at the University of Mannheim .

Life

Loose did his doctorate and habilitation under Christoph Jentsch in Mannheim on topics of comparative high mountain geography.

Rainer Loose held a professorship for geography and historical regional studies in the geography teaching unit at the University of Mannheim, which is currently being dissolved. At the same time he was the chief archive director at the state archive in Stuttgart , where he was responsible for the geographical description of the state. He was the chief editor of the district descriptions for the Rottweil and Biberach districts . Loose is considered a South Tyrolean and an expert in the historical geography of Southwest Germany .

Works (selection)

• Settlement genesis of the upper Vintschgau . Layers and elements of the Theresian settlement structure of a South Tyrolean pass region , Trier 1976.
• Iron extraction on the Donnersberg. Studies on the population, economy and agricultural social structure of a historical mining district 1800–1850 , Giloi, Winnweiler 1980.
• Agricultural geography of southwestern Trentino , Wiesbaden 1983.
• Nine centuries of the Marienberg Benedictine Abbey 1096–1996. Festschrift for the 900th anniversary of the St. Maria monastery (Schuls-Marienberg) , Lana 1996.
• No picnic for speculators: the Württemberg Society for Beet Sugar Factory (1836–1854) . In: Journal of Württemberg State History . Stuttgart, Vol. 72 (2013), pp. 313-355 ( online ).
• The central office of the Württemberg agricultural association. The renewal of agriculture and trades under King Wilhelm I of Württemberg (1817–1848) , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018 (publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B, Volume 221), ISBN 978-3-17-035354 -1 .