Academic Career


  • 1969 Academic Assistant at the Geographic Institute of RWTH Aachen

  • 1972 Promotion (Dr. phil.) in Geography at the University of Freiburg/Br.

  • 1976 Research Associate at the Geographic Institute of RWTH Aachen

  • 1976-1977 Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies

  • 1977-1978 Scholarship for Habilitation by DFG

  • 1979 Habilitation in Geography at the RWTH Aachen

  • 1986 Professor, RWTH Aachen

  • 1995 Professor, Geographic Institute of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen

  • 2010: Attainment of "normal retirement age"