Friedrich Ratzel jako twórca niemieckiej Geopolitik

Friedrich Ratzel / 1844–1904 / was prominent geographer and ethnographer, creator of human geography and political geography. It is careful him for father of German geopolitics also. According to him man be dependent on from geographical environment, which exerts decisive influence on his working. He called state organism on which they had influenced working the most strongly geographical factors: territory, position as well as Raumsinn. Political organisms according to Ratzel steels fight about existence, that is about living /vital/ space / Lebensraum /, without which they can not survive. This influences on their policy, economy, culture. Ideas Ratzels interpreted one-sidedly as well as his successors used particularly Karl Haushofer. The leaders of Nazism used in their policy the German geographer’s thought particularly roughly