Friedrich Ratzel
German geographer and ethnographer (1844–1904)
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German geographer who coined Lebensraum, a territorial concept that the Nazis would later weaponize into an ideology. His work on human geography and ethnography shaped early 20th-century geographic thought.
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Friedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum in the sense that the National Socialists later would.
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