Background
Poehlmann, Gerhard Manfred was born on November 28, 1924 in Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. Son of Karl Gustav and Elsa (Huschke) Poehlmann.
Poehlmann, Gerhard Manfred was born on November 28, 1924 in Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. Son of Karl Gustav and Elsa (Huschke) Poehlmann.
Degree in Engineering, Academy for Architecture, Berlin, 1952. Postgraduate, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule & University Zürich, 1959. Doctors degree, Free University Berlin, 1974.
Map editor, production manager, Justus Perthes Geographical Public, Gotha, Darmstadt, Federal Republic Germany, 1947-1956;
assistant head cartographer, Professor Imhof Cartographic Institute, Zürich, 1956-1959;
editor-in-chief, Mair's Geographical Public House, Stuttgart, Federal Republic Germany, 1959-1962;
lecturer, professor, Technische Fachhochscule Berlin, 1962-1988;
dean faculty, Technische Fachhochscule Berlin, 1981-1984;
director, Laboratory Map Compilation & Design, Berlin, 1970-1988. Scientist, adviser various governor positions, since 1965. Director DGFK Working Group Thematic Cartography, Berlin, 1979-1987, Special Research Project 69 Subproject D1, Berlin, 1981-1987.
Consulting National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, India, 1982-1985. Project manager General Petroleum Company, Cairo, 1982-1988. Guest lecturer on cartography T.U. Zagreb Geodetski Fakultet, Yugoslavia, 1965, 87.
Advisor desert research Academia Sinica China, 1986. Adviser Environmental Protection Xinjiang Institute, China, 1987. Adviser mapping in the 1990s Kaduna Polytechnic, Nigeria, 1989.
Asian development bank consultant in cartography Geological Survey Pakistan, 1991-1992.
Lieutenant German Army, 1942-1945, World War World War II. Member Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie, Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Geographische Gesellschaft Zürich, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Kartographie, directorate of Freundeskreisfur Cartographica.
Married Ilse Dora Schmidt, December 2, 1945. Children: Christine, Angelika.