Wolf-Dieter Sick

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Wolf-Dieter Sick's grave in the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart .

Wolf-Dieter Sick (born May 31, 1925 in Neunkirchen ; † July 12, 2013 in Denzlingen ) was a German geographer and professor.

Life

From 1947, Sick studied geography, history and Romance studies at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia . After becoming a Dr. phil. received his doctorate , he worked as a lecturer in Tübingen and Stuttgart from 1954 to 1964 . He completed his habilitation in 1961.

In 1964 he became professor for geography and regional studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1990 he retired.

From 1983 to 2001 he was chairman of the Alemannic Institute in Freiburg and wrote several papers on the geographic development of Freiburg. He was the bearer of the National Order of Madagascar.

Fonts

  • The settlement structure in the area of ​​the individual farms and wastelands north of Lake Constance . 1951.
  • Geographical survey of the country: The natural units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
  • Economic geography of Ecuador . Geographical Institute, Stuttgart 1963.
  • Settlement levels and forms of settlement . Alemannic Institute, Freiburg 1972.
  • Freiburg im Breisgau, urban geographic problems of the present . Alemannic Institute, Freiburg 1974.
  • Agricultural geography . Westermann, Braunschweig 1993.

literature

  • B. Mohr (Hrsg.): Spatial structures in change: Festschrift for Wolf-Dieter Sick. 2 volumes. Konkordia, Bühl / Baden 1990.
  • J. Stadelbauer: Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Sick (1925-2013). In: Alemannisches Jahrbuch 2013/2014. Volume 61/62, Freiburg 2015, pp. 315-317.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. 1967, master roll no. 935.
  2. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar Online. accessed on December 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Sick, Wolf-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen
DATE OF DEATH 12th of July 2013
Place of death Denzlingen