Gotthard Fliegel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gotthard Fliegel

German geographer

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1873

Place of Birth: Ścinawa, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 22-Jun-1947

Profession: geographer, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Gotthard Fliegel (28 December 1873 – 22 June 1947) was a German geographer.
His work was mostly on western Germany, especially the Lower Rhine basin.
He was born in Dammer in Lower Silesia and attended the Maria-Magdalenen school in Wroclaw.
He then studied at the University of Wroclaw, where he gained a Ph.D.
after his 1898 dissertation on the spread of marine Pennsylvanian rocks in South and East Asia.
Later that year, he moved to the Geological-Palaeontological Institute in Bonn, where he remained until 1903 as an assistant to Clemens Schlüter.
He then became a geologist with the Prussian Geological Institute in Berlin and in 1923 became a department director.
In 1919 he became associate professor at the Agricultural University of Berlin.
The rise of the Nazis led to his retirement in 1934.His son Fritz Fliegel was a Luftwaffe pilot killed in World War II.