Volker Höhfeld

Volker Höhfeld (born December 12, 1940 in Wuppertal ) is a German geographer.

After studying geography, geology and cartography in Cologne, Volker Höhfeld became a research assistant at the Geographical Institute there and at the Institute for Geography in Erlangen. In 1976 he received his doctorate for a thesis on the development of small Anatolian towns.

From 1979 he was a lecturer at the Geographical Institute of the University of Tübingen (focus on the Middle East) as well as a research assistant at the SFB 19 (Collaborative Research Center 19 of the DFG ) Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East (TAVO) and its coordinator from 1991–1993. From 1987/88 he was a representative of geography in the Troia project, from 1989 in the Lycia project under the direction of Frank Kolb and from 1990 in the rock paintings in the Latmos Mountains project of the DAI Berlin under the direction of Anneliese Peschlow-Bindokat. Over 50 publications on the Orient were created. After 1994, he also taught geography at the Ludwigsburg University of Education for several years . Since his retirement he has been a lecturer at the Geography Institute at the University of Tübingen and excursion leader on GeoPuls study trips .

Publications (selection)

• with Hans Becker and Horst Kopp : Coffee from Arabia. The change in the meaning of a world economic good and its settlement-geographical consequence on the dry line of ecumenism. (Series: Geography Knowledge. Series of publications for research and practice. Issue 46). Wiesbaden 1979.

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Höhfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page about Volker Höhfeld on the website of the University of Tübingen ( Memento from March 27, 2017 on WebCite )