Gotthard Fliegel (28 December 1873 – 22 June 1947) was a German geographer. His work was mostly on western

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, especially the

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basin. He was born in Dammer in Lower Silesia and attended the Maria-Magdalenen school in

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. He then studied at the

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, where he gained a Ph.D. after his 1898 dissertation on the spread of marine

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rocks in South and East Asia. Later that year, he moved to the Geological-Palaeontological Institute in

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, where he remained until 1903 as an assistant to Clemens Schlüter. He then became a geologist with the Prussian Geological Institute in

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and in 1923 became a department director. In 1919 he became associate professor at the

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. The rise of the Nazis led to his retirement in 1934. His son

Fritz Fliegel Fritz Fliegel (30 November 1907 – 18 July 1941) was a German track cyclist, Luftwaffe bomber pilot and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the highest award in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World ...

was a Luftwaffe pilot killed in

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Works in the catalogue of the German National Library
German geographers 1873 births 1947 deaths {{Geographer-stub