Wilhelm Süss

Wilhelm Süss
Wilhelm Süss, ca. 1954
Born(1895-03-07)7 March 1895
Frankfurt, German Empire
Died21 May 1958(1958-05-21) (aged 63)
Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany
EducationGoethe University Frankfurt
Known forFounder of the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics
SpouseIrmgard Deckert
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Greifswald
University of Freiburg
Thesis Begründung der Inhaltslehre im Raum ohne Benutzung von Stetigkeitsaxiomen  (1922)
Doctoral advisorLudwig 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, West 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

  1. ^ S L Segal, Mathematicians under the Nazis (Princeton, NJ, 2003).
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ V R Remmert, Griff aus dem Elfenbeinturm. Mathematik, Macht und Nationalsozialismus : das Beispiel Freiburg, Mitt. Dtsch. Math.-Ver. (3) (1999), 13-24.
  4. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Wilhelm Süss", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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