{{Short description|German geographer (1873–1947)}} {{refimprove|date=August 2014}}{{Expand German|topic=bio|Gotthard Fliegel|date=August 2014}} '''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 [[Ober Dammer|Dammer]] in [[Lower Silesia]] and attended the Maria-Magdalenen school in [[Wrocław]]. He then studied at the [[University of Wrocław]], where he gained a Ph.D. after his 1898 dissertation on the spread of marine [[Pennsylvanian (geology)|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.<ref>{{cite journal | title =Gotthard Fliegel | journal =Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften | publisher =Schweizerbart | url =http://www.schweizerbart.de/pubs/journals/0012-0189/paper/102/134 | author=Stille, Hans| language = German | year = 1950| accessdate = 2008-05-02| pages = 134–140}}</ref>
His son [[Fritz Fliegel]] was a Luftwaffe pilot and Knight Cross holder killed in [[World War II]].
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==External links== *[http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/SET=3/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1004&SRT=YOP&TRM=fliegel%2C+gotthard Works in the catalogue of the German National Library]
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