Wilhelm Lutz (geographer)

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Wilhelm Lutz (born July 22, 1931 in Adorf / Vogtl. ) Is a German economic geographer and honorary chairman of the Frankfurt Geographical Society . His research focus was on the settlement and economic structures in the Old and New World high mountain areas, especially New Zealand and the Alps .

Career

After receiving the general university entrance qualification, in 1951 he began studying geography, German and history to become a teacher in Erlangen . In the winter semester of 1952/1953 Lutz moved to the University of Tübingen and in the winter semester of 1953/1954 he fulfilled his wish to go abroad by moving to the University of Innsbruck , Austria. From the summer of 1955 to the end of 1957 he spent field studies in Val Gardena , South Tyrol for his doctoral thesis Val Gardena: Landscape, Settlement and Economy of a Dolomite High Valley . The evaluation, interpretation and writing then took until the winter semester of 1962/1963 to complete.

After completing his Rigorosum in 1963, Wilhelm Lutz received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck. phil.

In 1963 he took up a position as a research assistant at the business geography seminar at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . On the advice of his boss, he flew to New Zealand in 1966 for a twelve-month research stay. On a total of five research trips, Lutz dealt with the country's settlement and economic areas.

For the winter semester 1972/1973 Lutz was appointed university professor; In 1996 he retired.

As a member of the Frankfurt Geographical Society and the Association of German School Geographers, he made excursions to New Zealand in 1991, 1997, 1998 and 2000.

In 2001 his commitment resulted in his appointment as honorary chairman of the Frankfurt Geographical Society. In 2013 Lutz was awarded the “Golden Doctorate” by the University of Innsbruck.

Publications

  • The Alpe di Siusi. A picture of mountain farming. In: Yearbook of the Austrian Alpine Club, Alpine Club Journal Volume 85, 1960, pp. 75–82.
  • Church registers as sources of population history studies. On the question of the reliability of baptismal and death books, shown using the example of Val Gardena (= Schlern-Schriften 217, Geographical Studies on Humans and Settlements in South Tyrol, Prof. Dr. Hans Kinzl on the 60th birthday of his students, pp. 51-68 ). Innsbruck 1961.
  • Lutz Wilhelm and Christoph Jentsch: The population of the Gadertal in 1951 (= Schlern-Schriften 217, Geographical Studies on Man and Settlement in South Tyrol, Prof. Dr. Hans Kinzl on the 60th birthday of his students, pp. 69-99). Innsbruck 1961.
  • Lutz Wilhelm and Christoph Jentsch: The population of Toblach and Waidbruck in 1951. A study of two traffic settlements in South Tyrol (= Schlern-Schriften 217, Geographical Studies on Man and Settlement in South Tyrol, Prof. Dr. Hans Kinzl on the 60th birthday of his Students, pp. 101-123). Innsbruck 1961.
  • Val Gardena. Landscape, settlement and economy of a Dolomite high valley (= Tyrolean economic studies, No. 21). Innsbruck 1966, 360 pages, 5 maps, 36 illustrations, 48 ​​tables and 26 images.
  • The picture of the rural settlement in Tyrol (= contributions to the genesis of the settlement and agricultural landscape in Europe, geographic knowledge, issue 18, pp. 103–111). Wiesbaden 1968.
  • New Zealand (= Westermann Lexicon of Geography, Volume III, pp. 505-510). OO (Braunschweig) n.d. (1970).
  • New Zealand. Heidelberg undated (1975), 16 pages and 12 pictures.
  • Lutz Wilhelm and Christoph Jentsch: Pustertal - Dolomites. Social and economic changes in eastern South Tyrol (three days) (= Innsbruck Geographical Studies, Volume 2, Tyrol. A geographical excursion guide, pp. 369–410). OO (Innsbruck) n.d. (1975).
  • The upper settlement limit in the High Country of New Zealand's South Island. (= Frankfurter Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographische Schriften, issue 26, studies on general and regional geography, Josef Matznetter on his 60th birthday, pp. 305-316, 2 maps and 1 table). Frankfurt am Main 1977.
  • New Zealand. Travel guide with regional studies (= Mai's World Guide No. 15). Frankfurt am Main o. J. (1980), 181 pages, 16 photos and 6 maps.
  • The free choice of school after primary school - a problem child of Hessian parents. In: Elternbrief des HEV, 1982, I, pp. 4-6 and pp. 9-10.
  • The high country of the South Island of New Zealand. Development and structure of a high mountain area. (= Frankfurter Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographische Schriften, Issue 36, Economic Aspects of Spatial Development in Non-European High Mountains, 3rd Frankfurter Wirtschaftsgeographisches Symposium [February 1st / 2nd, 1980], pp. 269–326 and 7 maps). Frankfurt am Main 1981.
  • School books in the crossfire of criticism. In: Elternbrief des HEV, 1982, II, p. 22 and p. 27–28.
  • New Zealand (= Fischer Länderkunde, Volume 10, Australia - New Zealand - South Pacific, pp. 70–92, pp. 236–238 and pp. 247/248). OO (Frankfurt am Main) undated (1984)
  • 1888–1988 (= 1888–1988. 100 years of Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium, formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main, pp. 15–17). OO (Frankfurt am Main) no year (1988).
  • New Zealand - in upheaval: On the way to the world economy (= Frankfurter Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographische Schriften, Issue 52, Australia - New Zealand, Spatial Change in Global Economic Dependency, 8th Frankfurt Economic Geographical Symposium [February 12, 1988], p. 3– 20). Frankfurt am Main 1988.
  • The student catchment area of ​​the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium (= 1888–1988. 100 years Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium, formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main, 101-103) OO (Frankfurt am Main) o . (1988).
  • Geography and geology (= New Zealand [Ed .: Aspe, Andris and Joachim Fischer], pp. 19–26). Cologne undated (1989).
  • Economic Change in New Zealand. In: Geographische Rundschau, Volume 42, 1990, Issue 3, pp. 136–142.
  • Lutz, Wilhelm and Uwe Jäschke: A series of cards on the subject of Germany. Frankfurt am Main around 1990, 8 maps.
  • New Zealand. (= State Lexicon, Law, Economy, Society in 7 Volumes, Seventh Volume, The States of the World II, Africa - Asia - Australia - Oceania - Antarctica, pp. 851–855). Freiburg, Basel, Vienna undated (1993).
  • Hofmeister, Burkhard and Wilhelm Lutz: Australia & New Zealand (= countries of the world). OO (Dortmund) o. J. (1999), 576 pages.
personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic geographer and honorary chairman of the Frankfurt Geographical Society
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Adorf / Vogtl.