Claus Adolf Moser
Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser , KCB , CBE (born November 24, 1922 in Berlin ; died September 4, 2015 in Chur , Switzerland ) was a British statistician of German origin with many offices and achievements in academic and public work.
Life
Claus Adolf Moser's father Ernst Moser (1885–1957) was the owner of the bank “Ernst Moser & Co.” in Berlin (founded in 1902, Aryanized in 1937). His mother was Lotte Moser, née Goldberg, 1897–1976. In 1936 Moser fled to England with his parents and his brother Peter Moser, who was born in 1921 . There he attended Frensham Heights School and began studying at the London School of Economics (LSE). Despite his Jewish origins, he was interned in Huyton in 1940 as a hostile foreigner . He was released after four months and subsequently served in the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1946 . In 1949 he married the social worker Mary Oxlin and they had three children.
After the war he returned to the London School of Economics as an assistant, later as an assistant professor of statistics (1946–1955). From 1955 to 1961 he was professor there without a chair in social statistics, from 1961 to 1970 full professor and until 1975 visiting professor of social statistics. He boasted of being a non-mathematical statistician. He stated that what scared him the most in his life was Maurice Kendall's request to teach a course in analysis of variance at the LSE.
In 1965 he applied for a position at the Central Statistical Bureau, which was rejected on the grounds that he was a former “enemy alien”. That was no longer a problem when Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed him director of the office in 1967 . He held this position until 1978. In 1973 he became Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath . Since 1969 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .
He held a large number of honorary positions:
- 1967–1979 member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Academy of Music
- 1971–1983 BBC Advisory Committee on Music
- 1972–1980 Fellow , Nuffield College , Oxford
- 1974–1987 chairman of the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden
- 1978–1984 Director, Rothschild , 1978–1990 (Vice-Chairman)
- 1978–1980 President, Royal Statistical Society
- 1979–1983 chairman of the Economist Intelligence Unit
- 1984–1993 Head of Wadham College
- 1986–2002 Chancellor of the University of Keele
- 1988–2000 trustee at the London Philharmonic Orchestra
- 1989–1990 President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1991–1993 Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
- 1993–2003 Chairman of the British Museum Development Trust (later: Honorary Chairman)
- 1994–2004 Chancellor of the Open University of Israel
In 2001 he was promoted to Life Peer with the title Baron Moser , of Regents Park in the London Borough of Camden and inducted into the House of Lords . Other honors were:
- 1996 Albert Medal from the Royal Society of Arts
- 1976 Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite ( France )
- Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (October 3, 1985)
The Claus Moser Research Institute
In 1997 Moser took part in the laying of the foundation stone for the Claus Moser Research Center, a separate research facility for the humanities and social sciences at Keele University . The building was officially opened in June 2008.
literature
- Margit Kraus: Moser, Claus Adolf. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 472-474.
- Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 509
- David Bartholomew: Claus Adolf Moser, 1922–2015 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XVI , 2017, p. 171-188 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).
Web links
- LSE history: 1895–1995 - 1961: Sir Claus Moser (English)
- Nicholas Barr, Howard Glennerster: Fifty Years of Robbins . LSE Connect, September 2013 edition, pp. 21–23 (pdf; 362 kB)
- Portrait of Moser on the website of the University of York
- Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser at thepeerage.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Alasdair Steven: British statistician and former Chairman of the Royal Opera House Claus Moser dies . Royal Opera House , September 5, 2015, accessed September 5, 2015.
- ^ The address of the bank was Friedrichstrasse 85, Berlin-Mitte .
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Cliff Davies: Warden Moser 1922-2015 . Wadham College, UK, September 7th 2015, accessed September 7th 2015.
- ^ The London Gazette : No. 56259, p. 7687 . June 29, 2001.
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
- ^ The Week At Keele . ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Keele University , January 12, 2007, accessed September 7, 2015.
- ^ Official Opening of the Claus Moser Research Center . Message from Keele University on Facebook , June 17, 2008, accessed September 7, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moser, Claus Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moser, Baron Moser, Claus Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 2015 |
| Place of death | Chur , Switzerland |