Munich School

From Geography

The Munich School of social geography has its origins in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Munich. The Munich School has shaped geography as a discipline of social science. Wolfgang Hartke was professor at the Institute from 1952 until 1975. He develops the field geography to a more social relevant research. His students Jörg Maier, Karl Ruppert, Reinhard Paesler and Franz Schaffer develops the concept of Wolfgang Hartke to a social geographical approach, directed with the focus on the “Daseinsgrundfunktionen” (basic principles of existence) of social gropes. Living, working, education, recreation, community life and transportation. They using these functions mainly to understand the patterns of human mobility (Krüger, 2009, p. 4).