The idea of German cultural regions in the Third Reich : the work of Franz Petri
Cultural studies ; Germanschool ; History of geography ; Research ; Twentieth Century ; Years 1920-29
was a pioneering figure in the so-called Kulturraumforschung school. His method involved an attempt to reconstruct Germanic cultural traditions and legacies in Belgium and northern France through a detailed investigation of Medieval field and place names, burial
The article considers the German idea of the cultural region between the wars, with particular reference to the work of Franz Petri. Drawing on a self-consciously modern integration of archaeological, historical and geographical research, he
Geography education in West German high schools : do four years make a difference?
Description of the geography program in secondary schools in West Berlin FRG where students receive much more exposure to the subject than in the USA. Geography teachers are better trained than their American counterparts, but problems of geography
Pioneers of modern geography : translations pertaining to German geographers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Bibliography ; Biography ; Century 19th ; Century 20th ; Geographic school ; Germanschool ; History of geography
Introductory essay, bibliography and translated extracts of published works by and about five notable German geographers : A. Meitzen (1822-1910); E. Hahn (1856-1928); O. Schluter (1872-1959); S. Passarge (1866-1958); and K. Sapper (1866-1945
Zur Entwicklung der Schulkartographie in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. (The development of School cartography in the German Democratic Republic)
School cartography is a special theory of designing and using maps within the more general system of theoretical cartography. In the G.D.R., school cartography has developed into an interdisciplinary research field of its own through close
cooperation among educal institutions and publishing houses, having a bias towards and receiving suggestions from practical work in schools. (HL).
Paper first gives definitions of the categories of regional country and country region occurred in a number of region theory schools (German, English, French) of international geographical science. Hungarian geography was mainly influenced
by the Germanschool. Author investigates theoretical scientific aspects of region theory in Hungarian geography until 1948. - (JS)
Human and regional geography in the German speaking lands in the first forty years of the twentieth century; an outsiders view
Determinism ; Geographic school ; Geographical thought ; Germanschool ; History of geography ; Human geography ; Regional geography ; Twentieth Century
Appropriation of land ; Determinism ; Geographic school ; Geographical thought ; Geopolitical strategy ; Geopolitics ; Germanschool ; Germany ; History of ideas ; Ideology ; Man-environment relations ; Political geography ; Power ; Territorial
to a characterization of the attempts, the German made at actually conquering a Lebensraum in the East. The influence of the doctrine on Nazi ideology, including on Hitler and Himmler themselves, is emphasized, and attention is paid to the geopolitical consequences
, most especially as regards German politics in the first half of the 20th century. - (BJ)
Eighteenth Century ; Geographical knowkedge ; Geopolitics ; Germanschool ; History of geography ; Ideology ; Nineteenth Century ; Twentieth Century
This article presents ideas and creative concepts from leading German geographers and economists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through their pioneering achievements, these academics contributed to the emergence of geopolitics
in the twentieth century. The presented scientific achievements of German scholars formed the basis for modern anthropogeography (under J.G. Herder, K. Ritter, E. Kapp, E.M. Arndt and A. Kirchhoff), as well as the doctrine of the economy of the great area (under
J.G. Fichte, K.F. Nebenius, F. List, P. de Lagarde, C. Frantz and G. Schmoller). In its final part, the article discusses some other research trends that have influenced the development and ideological face of German geopolitics. – (BJ)