Willi Czajka

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Willi Oskar Johannes Czajka (born August 1, 1898 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † November 13, 1987 in Wollbrandshausen ) was a German geographer and university professor.

Life

The son of a toolmaker attended the teachers 'seminar in Steinau an der Oder from 1912 to 1920 and passed the two teachers' exams from 1920 to 1922. From 1920 to 1939 he was a teacher, school teacher (partly on leave) and technical director for student teachers active in Steinau and Wroclaw.

At the same time he studied geography , history, geology, German studies, economics and philosophy at the University of Breslau from 1922 to 1933 . From 1927 to 1933 he worked as a research assistant at the Geography Institute of the University of Wroclaw. In 1928 he received his doctorate , in 1930/31 he passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools and became a study assistant. In 1933 he received his habilitation in Breslau . From 1933 to 1939 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Breslau. After the " smashing of the rest of the Czech Republic " he was "entrusted with a professorship" at the University of Prague in 1939 , from 1941 to 1945 he was associate professor there and from 1940 director of the Institute for Folk Research. Czajka was a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia .

After the end of the war, he worked as a freelancer in Munich from 1945 , before taking over a professorship at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in Argentina from 1948 (until 1954). In 1953 he became an associate professor for reuse at the University of Göttingen . In 1955 he became an associate professor and in 1957 a full professor of geography. In 1966 he retired.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Silesian Ridge: A regional study of Northern Silesia (= publications of the Silesian Society for Geography EV and the Geographical Institute of the University of Breslau. H. 11). Part 1. Marcus, Breslau 1931 (dissertation, University of Breslau, 1931).
  • Collaboration: The German Ostmark in class. Handel, Breslau 1933; 4th, revised and expanded edition: The German Ostraum in the classroom. Handel, Breslau 1937 (this edition was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war ).
  • with Theo Johannes Mann: Habitat and realms of the Teutons 1000 BC – 800 AD (= Wall Atlas of German Volkstum. Explanatory Booklet 1). Priebatsch, Breslau 1935.
  • The Silesian Ridge: A regional study of North Silesia (= publications of the Silesian Society for Geography EV and the Geographical Institute of the University of Breslau. H. 13). Part 1. Priebatsch, Breslau 1938 (habilitation thesis, University of Breslau, 1933).
  • Europe (= Fischer / Geistbeck: Geography. T. 2). Buchner / Oldenbourg, Bamberg / Munich / Berlin 1939; 5th edition 1943.
  • Forms of life and pioneering work at the settlement border (= The inhabited earth. No. 1). Schroedel, Hanover 1953.
  • Willi Czajka, Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 174 Straubing. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Nitz (Ed.): Land development and cultural landscape change at the settlement borders of the earth. Symposium on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Willi Czajka from 9-11. November 1973 in the Geographical Institute of the University of Göttingen. Goltze, Göttingen 1976.
  • Who is who? 22nd edition (1983). P. 195.
  • Hans-Jürgen Klink: Willi Czajka in memory. In: Geographical Journal . Jg. 77 (1989), H. 3, pp. 129-136.
  • Monika Glettler, Alena Míšková (Eds.): Prague Professors 1938–1948: Between Science and Politics. Klartext, Essen 2001, p. 210.
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann: "German Spiritual Science" in World War II: The "Ritterbusch Action" (1940–1945). 3rd, expanded edition. Synchron, Heidelberg 2007, p. 425.
  • Jiří Martínek: Geografové v českých zemích 1800–1945 (biografický slovník). Historický ústav, Prague 2008, p. 65.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [ Fifty Years of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In: Yearbook of the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Volume 17, 1972, list of members p. 414.]
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-o.html
personal data
SURNAME Czajka, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Czajka, Willi Oskar Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1987
Place of death Wollbrandshausen