Richard Hennig

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Richard Hennig (full name Richard Carl Gustav Hennig ; born January 12, 1874 in Berlin ; died December 22, 1951 in Düsseldorf ) was a German transport scientist and historical geographer .

Richard Hennig was the son of the businessman Arthur Hennig (1846-1892) and his wife Luise Wiebcke, nee Schmaedicke (1853-1928). The geologist and paleontologist Edwin Hennig was his younger brother. After graduating from high school, Richard Hennig studied natural sciences at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin with a focus on meteorology , as well as history and psychology . Since 1896 assistant at the Meteorological Institute in Berlin, he was in 1897 when Wilhelm von Bezold with a dissertation studies on the North Sea storm surges doctorate . In the same year he was responsible for the observations in the weather station on the Brocken .

From 1899 to 1908 in cable sales for Siemens and Halske , Richard Hennig lived the life of a private scholar from 1909 and devoted himself to studies in traffic geography , history and politics . From 1911 he gave the magazine Weltverkehr, which he founded . Journal for World Transport Science and World Transport Policy . During the First World War he was employed as a naval meteorologist, initially in the naval land aviation department at Johannisthal Airport , and from 1916-18 in the naval weather service in Liepāja , where he worked with the meteorologist Otto Freybe . His book "Practical Weather Rules for Everyone" was created in 1921 as an early textbook for aviation meteorology . After the end of the war, in 1919 he was appointed to the chair of transport geography at the University of Transport in Düsseldorf, where he taught until his retirement in 1939. During the time of National Socialism , Hennig openly represented a contrary opinion towards the Working Group for Geopolitics , which was close to the NSDAP . For him, the influence of spatial conditions on a people was to be assessed more strongly than “racial characteristics”, which he said in his work Geopolitics, first published in 1928 . The doctrine of the state as a living being set forth. The book had five editions by 1938, it was only in this last edition that he defused his position after he had been openly threatened.

Trade and discovery trips, traffic routes and the flow of goods were Richard Hennig's scientific research priorities, in addition to meteorology. He devoted himself to prehistoric and early historical problems as well as the effects of the latest technical developments on contemporary transport. The geography of the Homeric epics, the problems surrounding Atlantis , the discovery of America in all its features formed focal points beyond the research that also had a political effect on his time and was reflected in his four-volume main work Terrae incognitae .

Even before his doctorate, he was influenced by Carl Stumpf , making scientific contributions in the field of psychology and repeatedly devoted himself to psychological issues, on which he commented in monographs or in articles, e.g. for the magazine for psychology . Even equipped with an outstanding data memory, his psychological investigations, the subject of which he was himself at times, were primarily concerned with this phenomenon. A pronounced musicality also led him to musicological examinations, mostly psychologically based. In addition, he devoted himself to other scientific areas, which he made available to a wider audience in popular presentations.

Publications

  • The characteristics of the keys. Dümmler, Berlin 1897.
  • Youth and nature. Outmoded poems. Leipzig 1902.
  • Miracles and science. A Critique and Explanation of Occult Phenomena. Schultze, Hamburg 1904.
  • Catalog of remarkable weather events from the earliest times to the year 1800. Asher, Berlin 1904.
  • The modern belief in ghosts and ghosts. A critique and explanation of the spiritistic phenomena. Schultze, Hamburg 1906.
  • The oldest development of telegraphy and telephony. Barth, Leipzig 1908.
  • Railways of world traffic. Barth, Leipzig 1909.
  • Book of famous engineers. Spamer, Leipzig 1911.
  • Good and bad weather. Teubner, Leipzig 1911.
  • Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Foundation. A biographical sketch. Franckh, Stuttgart 1912.
  • The development of the feeling for nature. The essence of inspiration (= writings of the Society for Psychological Research. Volume 17). Barth, Leipzig 1912.
  • The main routes of world traffic. Fischer, Jena 1913.
  • Problems of world traffic. Paetel, Berlin 1913.
  • Our cousin Tartuffe or how England "acquired" its colonies. Paetel, Berlin 1914.
  • From the weather. Common considerations about wind and weather and their influence on the war. German Natural Science Society, Leipzig 1915.
  • Overseas Telegraphy and Foreign Policy. Heymann, Berlin 1919.
  • Practical weather rules for everyone. Franz Deuticke, Leipzig and Vienna 1921.
  • From enigmatic lands. Sunken places of history. Delphin, Munich 1925.
  • The riddle of Atlantis. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1925.
  • Treatises on the history of shipping. Fischer, Jena 1928.
  • Free Streams! Gloekner, Leipzig 1926.
  • Geopolitics. The doctrine of the state as a living being. Teubner, Leipzig 1928 (5th edition 1938).
  • World air traffic and world air policy. Zentral-Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1930.
  • Germany's right to colonies. Pan-German Association, Berlin 1934.
  • The geography of the Homeric epic. Teubner, Berlin / Leipzig 1934.
  • Where was Vineta? Attempt to clarify the Vineta issue through geographical-historical, traffic-scientific and text-critical investigations. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1935.
  • Traffic speeds in their development up to the present. Enke, Stuttgart 1936.
  • Terrae incognitae. A compilation and critical evaluation of the most important pre-Columbian voyages of discovery on the basis of the original reports on them. 4 volumes. Brill, Leiden 1936-1939 (2nd edition 1944-1956).
  • Columbus and his act. A critical study of the prehistory of the journey from 1492. Geist, Bremen 1940.
  • Prehistoric and protohistoric antiquity in its cultural and commercial relationships. Reclam, Leipzig 1942.
  • Where was paradise? Mysteries of cultural history and geography. Verlag des Druckhaus Tempelhof, Berlin 1950.

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  1. ↑ Richard Hennig dedicated his book "Practical Weather Rules for Everyone" to "Professor Otto Freybe (Weilburg), his 'good comrade' in Libau 1916-1918".
  2. ↑ Henning Heske: And tomorrow the whole world: geography lessons under National Socialism. Focus, Giessen 1988. 2nd edition. Norderstedt 2008, p. 126 f.
  3. ^ Richard Hennig: Contributions to the psychology of the double ego. In: Journal of Psychology. Volume 49, 1908, pp. 1-55.
  4. ^ About Richard Hennig: Comments on a Case of Abnormal Memory. In: Journal of Psychology. Vol. 55, 1910, pp. 332-342; New research into a case of abnormal data memory. In: Journal of Psychology. Volume 90, 1922, pp. 329-347; ders .: Further observations on a case of abnormal data memory. In: Journal of Psychology. Volume 96, 1925, pp. 197 ff .; ders .: The number of datable memories in a human life. In: Journal of Psychology. Volume 140, 1937, pp. 330-356.
  5. ^ Richard Hennig: Origin and meaning of the synopsies. In: Journal of Psychology. Volume 10, 1896, pp. 181-222; ders .: The characteristics of the keys. Dümmler, Berlin 1897; ders .: About visual music sensation. In: Journal of Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology. Volume 4, 1912, pp. 22-35; ders .: A Dutch source for Wagner's “Lohengrin”? In: New magazine for music . Volume 87, 1920, p. 409.
personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennig, Richard Carl Gustav; Hennig, Ricardus Carolus Gustavus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German transport scientist and historical geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1951
Place of death Dusseldorf