Wolfgang Hartke

Wolfgang Hartke (born April 4, 1908 in Bonn , † March 26, 1997 in Munich ) was a German geographer and university professor . He is considered a co-founder of social geography in the German-speaking area.

academic career

Wolfgang Hartke, son of Wilhelm Hartke and brother of Werner Hartke , who were both ancient historians, studied geography, German literature and history in Berlin from 1926 and received his doctorate in 1932 under Norbert Krebs . In 1938 he completed his habilitation in Frankfurt with a thesis on the Rhine-Main area . From 1952 until his retirement in 1975, Hartke was full professor of geography at the Technical University of Munich , which from 1970 called itself Technical University of Munich . From 1959 to 1961 he was first chairman of the Association of University Lecturers in Geography and the Central Association of German Geographers.

Awards

• 1972: Honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
• 1978: Anders Retzius Gold Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography
• 1979: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1987: Rüppell medal in silver from the Frankfurt Geographical Society

Works (selection)

• On the cultural geography of the rural new settlement (East Prussia) . / Berlin Society for Geography 1933,
• The work and residential area in the Rhine-Main area . Investigations into the basics of cultural and economic geography and their concept of space using the particular example of pendulum migration. HL Brönner, Frankfurt 1938 (Rhine-Main research; 18)
• Sightseeing: A problem of tourism in war-torn cities . W. de Gruyter Berlin 1951
• The newspaper as a function of socio-geographical conditions in the Rhine-Main area . W. Kramer Frankfurt am Main 1952
• The social differentiation of the agricultural landscape in the Rhine-Main area . F. Dümmler Bonn 1953
• The herding children in the Hohen Vogelsberg . The geographical character of a social problem. M. Laßleben 1956
• The country of France as a socio-geographical unit . M. Diesterweg Frankfurt am Main 1963

See also

• Munich School of Social Geography
• Social wasteland
• Hans Bobek

literature

• Christoph Borcherdt: Wolfgang Hartke on his 80th birthday . In: Erdkunde 42 (1), 1988, pp. 1-6.
• Karl Ruppert (Ed.): On the location of social geography: Wolfgang Hartke on his 60th birthday. (= Munich studies on social and economic geography 4). Kallmünz / Regensburg, Laßleben 1968.
• Karl Ruppert: Wolfgang Hartke on his 80th birthday . In: Reports on German regional studies 62 (1), 1988, pp. 6-11.
• Benno Werlen: Social Geography: An Introduction . Verlag UTB, 2000, ISBN 3-8252-1911-9 , pp. 132-148.
• Nicolas Ginsburger: "Géographies sociales et appliquées, entre regards croisés et circulations universitaires: Wolfgang Hartke, les géographes français et les relations académiques franco-allemandes au XXe siècle" , Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography , 7, 2015.
• Nicolas Ginsburger, "Géographes actifs, geographie politique: portraits comparés et croisés de Wolfgang Hartke et Jean Dresch au milieu des années 1950", In: L'Espace geographique, 4, 2015, pp. 349-360.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Hartke in the catalog of the German National Library
• ifl-leipzig.de - Wolfgang Hartke's estate, 27 boxes (K 550–576) ( Memento from November 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Geographisches Institut / Festschrift p. 5. (PDF; 1.3 MB) Retrieved on May 15, 2013 . 
2. ^ Faculty of Geosciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Retrieved May 16, 2013 . 
3. ^ Announcements from TUM, issue 5 (96/97). Retrieved May 15, 2013 . 
4. ^ The German university newspaper unites with university service . Volume 36, Verlag Dr. Josef Raabe, 1980, p. 222
5. ^ Frankfurter Geographische Gesellschaft: Honors . In: Frankfurter Geographische Hefte . tape 57 , p. 67-68 .