Walther Manshard

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Walther Manshard (born November 17, 1923 in Hamburg-Eilbek ) is a German geographer . In addition to his scientific contribution to geographic development research , Manshard worked as a science officer on an international level, including Secretary General of the International Geographical Union and Vice Rector of the University of the United Nations .

Life

Manshard was born in Hamburg-Eilbek in 1923. After graduating from high school in 1942 at Hamburg's Walddörfer-Gymnasium , he did military service before studying geography , ethnology and geology at the University of Hamburg from 1945 . Manshard received his doctorate in geography, geology and oceanography under Ludwig Mecking in 1949 and passed the state examination shortly afterwards . A short research stay at University College Southampton followed . Together with his wife Kiku, whom he married in Southampton, he went to the west coast of Africa at the end of 1951. There Manshard researched and taught until 1960 in Ghana , which was a British colony until 1957 as the Gold Coast . After his habilitation in 1959 at the University of Cologne with Kurt Kayser , a student of Norbert Krebs , he was initially a lecturer in Cologne until he was appointed professor at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1963 .

From 1970 to 1973 Manshard worked for UNESCO , where, as head of the Department of Environmental Sciences, he helped set up the international research program “ Man and the Biosphere ”. He then returned to Germany and took a chair at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . From 1976 Manshard acted as Secretary General and Treasurer of the International Geographical Union (until 1984) and from 1977 as Vice Rector of the University of the United Nations (until 1980). From 1980 until his retirement in 1989 he again held a chair in Freiburg.

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In his scientific work, Manshard dealt with agricultural and population-geographical issues in development research, such as dealing with natural resources and environmental pollution. His book Agriculturalography of the Tropics: An Introduction was published in 1974 in English translation ( Tropical agriculture: a geographical introduction and appraisal ).

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

  • The geographical foundations of Ghana's economy: with special consideration of agricultural development . Steiner-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1961 (Habilitation thesis, original title: The geographical foundations of the native economy of Ghana in their natural, historical and social contexts .).
  • Agriculturalography of the Tropics: An Introduction . Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim 1968.
  • Africa, south of the Sahara (=  Fischer-Länderkunde . Volume 5 ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • The cities of tropical Africa (=  urbanization of the earth . Volume 1 ). Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-443-39070-6 .
  • Kenneth Ruddle and Walther Manshard: Renewable Natural Resources and the Environment: Pressing Problems in the Developing World (=  Natural Resources and the Environment Series . Volume 2 ). Tycooly International Publishing, Dublin 1981, ISBN 0-907567-01-0 .
  • Development problems in the agricultural areas of tropical Africa . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-534-03901-7 .
  • Walther Manshard and Rüdiger Mäckel: Environment and Development in the Tropics: Natural Potential and Land Use . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-12304-2 .

further reading

  • Rüdiger Mäckel and Wolf-Dieter Sick (eds.): Natural resources and rural development problems of the tropics: Festschrift for Walther Manshard (=  geographic knowledge . Volume 90 ). Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-515-05188-0 .
  • Walther Manshard: As a geographer on the international stage: an autobiographical sketch (=  Freiburg studies on geographical development research . Volume 16 ). Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, Saarbrücken 1998, ISBN 3-88156-711-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b German researcher on the international stage: The Freiburg cultural geographer Walther Manshard is celebrating his 90th birthday. (PDF) Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, November 13, 2013, accessed on October 3, 2016 .
  2. ^ Former Vice-Rectors. United Nations University, accessed October 3, 2016 .
  3. ^ Negotiations of the Society for Geography in Berlin . In: The Earth . tape 110 , 1979, pp. 87-94 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Manshard, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg