Geography Association in Dresden
The Geography Association in Dresden was next to the Leipzig Association of Friends of Geography the most important association in Saxony, which from 1863 until the time of the Second World War dealt nationwide with geography, regional and ethnology. Its members included well-known public figures, including numerous scientists.
history
After the first annual report of the Geographic Association in Leipzig , founded in 1860, was published, interest in a similar geographic society was aroused in the Saxon residence city of Dresden. On March 17, 1863, Sophus Ruge circulated a circular calling for the establishment of a geographic reading circle or a geographic society based on the Leipzig model. Then on March 12, 1863, thirteen like-minded people met to found such a reading circle. The common idea arose to offer the chairmanship of the new association to the consul Karl Andree , who is active in Leipzig, and to jointly found the Geography Association in Dresden . Karl Andree agreed to this proposal a few days later, and so the association's official founding meeting took place on March 27, 1863.
The building at Kleine Brüdergasse 11 in Dresden's old town could be used as the seat . Almost 100 members joined the association in the first year. When he reached the age of 60, Karl Andree resigned the association's headquarters in Dresden in 1868 and the previous secretary Sophus Ruge, who at that time taught geography and history at the Dresden commercial school, took over the management of the association, which he chaired for 35 years. Under his direction the annual reports of the association appeared at regular intervals, which developed into an important geographical publication medium.
In addition to the lively club life with lectures and excursions, the club also became an important point of contact for those wishing to leave the country before the First World War, who obtained information about their new adopted home from the club. An internal department for emigration matters was created especially for this purpose and was headed by the writer Rudolf Doehn for several years . The Geography Association in Dresden also became known for its support of several expeditions abroad, for example to Africa or the North Pole.
In 1886 the association played a key role in the organization of the German Geographers' Day, for which Paul Emil Richter published the directory of researchers in the scientific regional and folklore of Central Europe published by the Geography Association in Dresden .
In 1904 Bernhard Pattenhausen and in 1908 at the latest Emil Schöne took over the chairmanship of the association. Second chairman was for a time General of the Cavalry Hermann von Broizem . In the 1930s, Hans von Zanthier and Paul Wagner headed the Geography Association, which, like all Saxon associations, had to cease its activities after 1943 in the course of the Second World War. The extensive library of the association had already passed into the possession of the Dresden City Library in 1924 .
literature
- First annual report of the Geography Association in Dresden , 2nd copy, Dresden 1865.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Katrin Nitzschke: Richter, Paul Emil . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- ↑ digitized version