Wilhelm Süss
Wilhelm Süss | |
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![]() Wilhelm Süss, ca. 1954 | |
Born | Frankfurt, Germany | 7 March 1895
Died | 21 May 1958 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany | (aged 63)
Education | Goethe University Frankfurt |
Known for | Founder of the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics |
Spouse | Irmgard Deckert |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Greifswald University of Freiburg |
Thesis | Begründung der Inhaltslehre im Raum ohne Benutzung von Stetigkeitsaxiomen (1922) |
Doctoral advisor | Ludwig Bieberbach |
Wilhelm Süss (7 March 1895 – 21 May 1958) was a German mathematician. He was founder and first director of the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics.
Biography
He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and died in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
Süss earned a Ph.D. degree in 1922 from Goethe University Frankfurt, for a thesis written under the direction of Ludwig Bieberbach. In 1928 he took a lecturing position at the University of Greifswald, and in 1934 he became a Professor at the University of Freiburg.
Wilhelm Süss was a member of the Nazi Party and the National Socialist German Lecturers League; he joined Stahlhelm to avoid being automatically enrolled in Sturmabteilung but later he, with all Stahlhelm members, became members of Sturmabteilung. The extent to which he worked with Nazis or only cooperated as little as possible is a matter of debate among historians.[1][2][3][4]
In 1936–1940, he was an editor of the journal Deutsche Mathematik.
References
- ^ S L Segal, Mathematicians under the Nazis (Princeton, NJ, 2003).
- ^ V R Remmert, Mathematicians at war. Power struggles in Nazi Germany's mathematical community : Gustav Doetsch and Wilhelm Süss, Rev. Histoire Math. 5 (1) (1999), 7-59.
- ^ V R Remmert, Griff aus dem Elfenbeinturm. Mathematik, Macht und Nationalsozialismus : das Beispiel Freiburg, Mitt. Dtsch. Math.-Ver. (3) (1999), 13-24.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Wilhelm Süss", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
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