Theodor Müller (geographer)

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Theodor Müller (born April 22, 1892 in Braunschweig ; † May 27, 1968 there ) was a German geographer , teacher and local researcher .

Life

Müller's father came from Hasselfelde in the Harz Mountains and owned a stone and book printing company in Braunschweig . His mother was of Huguenot origin and came from Neu-Isenburg . After finishing school he attended the teachers' college.

At the First World War he took part as lieutenant d. R. of the Braunschweig Infantry Regiment No. 92 . After his return, Müller worked as a primary and secondary school teacher, first in Thedinghausen , then in Schöningen and, from 1931, finally in Braunschweig. Müller studied geology, geography and history at the Technical University of Braunschweig and received his doctorate with the thesis “The marine Paleocene and Eocene in Northern Germany and Scandinavia”. As early as 1928 he had the “Amt Thedinghausen. Its history and development ”.

Müller took part in the Second World War. After the end of the war he worked for several years as a geographer for the Institute for Regional Studies of the Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning . In 1949 he returned to Braunschweig as a middle school teacher. In 1957 he was retired.

After the re-establishment of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein in 1949, of which Müller was a founding member, he became its board member and in 1962 its honorary member . In 1951 he was accepted as a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony.

The Ostfälische Landeskunde , published in 1952, is considered to be Müller's most important work , in which for the first time the independence and regional delimitation of Ostfalen was presented as a cultural-geographical unit.

Fonts (selection)

  • Balance of two centuries. The history of Bankhaus Gebr. Löbbecke & Co. . , Braunschweig. Braunschweig 1961.
  • Geographical survey of the country: The natural spatial units on sheet 87 Braunschweig. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962.
  • Theodor Müller : Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 87 Braunschweig. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.8 MB)
  • (with Richard Moderhack ): Chronicle of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein from May 1961 to March 1962. In: Hans Götting (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 1962, Volume 43, on behalf of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein, Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei Braunschweig 1962, pp. 200-208 .
  • City Director Wilhelm Bode . Life and Work , In: Braunschweiger Werkstücke, Volume 29, Braunschweig 1963.

Honors

  • 1961: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the city chronicle of Braunschweig
  2. ↑ a b c Dieter Neukirch: Obituary - Dr. Theodor Müller , p. 215
  3. ^ Dieter Neukirch: Obituary - Dr. Theodor Müller , p. 216
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1968
Place of death Braunschweig