Wilhelm Credner

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Grave of Wilhelm Credner in the municipal cemetery in Zell in Schäftlarn

Wilhelm Georg Rudolf Credner (born December 23, 1892 in Greifswald , † October 13, 1948 in Munich ) was a German geographer . He dealt mainly with economic geography .

Life

Wilhelm Credner, son of Rudolf Credner , studied geography at the University of Greifswald , the University of Uppsala and the University of Heidelberg . In 1922 he received his doctorate with a geomorphological thesis and three years later he completed his habilitation at the University of Kiel . He then traveled through Burma , Siam and Indochina . From 1932 he was a full professor at the Technical University of Munich and from 1946 at the state economics faculty of the University of Munich . In 1936 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Act

Credner advanced economic geography by placing the structure and development of the economic landscape and its geographically different types in the foreground instead of a world trade theory.

Works

  • Land use problems in the Greater Antilles
  • Tropics: raw material areas of the earth
  • Economic geographic impressions of a world tour
  • Landscape and economy in Sweden
  • Siam

literature

  • Gottfried Pfeifer : Obituary for Wilhelm Credner: Conference report , Landshut  : Verl. D. Office f. Regional studies 1950, German Geographers' Day, Munich; Vol. 27. 1948, H. 1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carl Rathjens:  Credner, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 405 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ see holdings in the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/367498375
personal data
SURNAME Credner, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Credner, Wilhelm Georg Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1948
Place of death Munich