Robert Geipel
Robert Geipel (born February 1, 1929 in Karlsbad ; † August 4, 2017 in Gauting ) was a German geographer and university professor . He is considered to be the founder of educational geography in German-speaking countries.
life and work
Robert Geipel studied geography at the Universities of Frankfurt a. M., Marburg and Bonn and then worked as a consultant at the Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning in Bonn. His doctorate took place in 1952 with a dissertation on social structure and unity consciousness as the basis of geographical structure .
From 1961 to 1969 he was professor of social geography at the University of Frankfurt and worked in teacher training. Due to personal experiences as a refugee, Geipel devoted himself to refugee research in addition to the then usual geographic studies. He worked closely with the education economist Friedrich Edding , who had a major influence on him. Geipel's credo in the post-war years: Refugees could only have saved (take away) their intellectual property, would be indispensable for the economic development of the Federal Republic of Germany , would have an indomitable will for advancement and would best integrate through equal educational opportunities.
Together with the sociologist Hansgert Peisert , Geipel researched the blatant social and spatial disparities in educational participation in the 1960s (model: Catholic working-class girls from the countryside in Bavaria have little chance of advancement), made a number of suggestions for expanding the educational system and realizing equal educational opportunities (resolution of Village schools, expansion of a learner driver system, re-establishment of universities, etc.) and created the educational geography approach ( educational geography ) within German-speaking geography .
In 1969, Geipel was appointed to the chair for applied geography at the Technical University of Munich as the successor to Wolfgang Hartke , which he held until his retirement in 1994. During this time he became a member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning , was appointed head of the (non-university) Bavarian State Institute for University Research and Planning and was an advisor in educational policy .
Since the earthquake in Friuli in 1976 , Geipel's scientific interest has also been the development of geographic risk research .
The institute was transferred from the Technical University of Munich to the LMU Munich in 2002 and has since been called the Seminar for Social Geography . Geipel lives in Gauting near Munich.
In 1989 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea .
literature
- Herbert Wagner : Education and Space. Developments and strategies in a geographical research direction. Dissertation. University of Osnabrück . Osnabrück studies on geography. Volume 13. Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-922043-13-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Geipel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Geipel obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 8, 2017
- ^ History of the Department of Geography , LMU Munich. (Retrieved July 26, 2008)
- ^ Membership directory: Robert Geipel. Academia Europaea, accessed June 26, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geipel, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer, founder of educational geography |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlovy Vary , Czech Republic |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 2017 |
| Place of death | Gauting , Bavaria |