Erich Obst

Karl August Erich fruit ( * September 13, 1886 in Berlin, † June 9, 1981 in Göttingen ) was a German geographer, geopolitics and high school teachers.

Life and work

Fruit studied geography, geology and mineralogy in Jena and Breslau. From 1908 he worked at the newly founded Colonial Institute in Hamburg. In 1909 he received his doctorate in Wroclaw. 1910 to 1912 he was leader of the East African Expedition of the Geographical Society in Hamburg. In 1912 he was a lecturer at the University of Marburg, 1915 Professor of Geography at the Darülfünun. He was also the director of the Imperial Ottoman Central Institute for meteorology. After the First World War took first fruit in 1919 a professorship in Breslau, until he was appointed in 1921 as professor of transport and economic geography to Hanover and involved in the establishment of the Geographical Institute (until 1938 ). In November 1933, he signed the confession of German professors to Adolf Hitler. From 1938 he was Professor at the University of Breslau, originated here 13 volumes of rules devised to 19 volumes colonial Manual ( 1941-43 ). After 1945, the continuation of the work was stopped. From 1945 fruit held a chair at the Technical University of Hanover.

In the Geographical Society Hanover was one of his employees Emil Conrad, who later became director of the Wilhelm -Busch- Museum.

Since 1923 he edited the magazine for geopolitics along with Karl Haushofer.

Writings

• General economic and transport geography. Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin in 1959, as Volume VII in:
• Erich fruit ( ed.): Textbook of General Geography. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1959ff.

Honors

• Member of the Leopoldina (1933 )