Dieter Biallas

Dieter Biallas, 2006

Dieter Biallas (born June 19, 1936 in Eydtkuhnen ; † July 17, 2016 in Hamburg ) was a German mathematician and as a politician ( FDP ; from 2014 New Liberals ) from 1974 to 1978 a Hamburg Senator .

Life

Dieter Biallas grew up in Mecklenburg after fleeing East Prussia and graduated from high school in Ludwigslust in 1955 . As a teenager, he lost an eye, left hand and several fingers on his right hand in an explosion. He studied mathematics first in Potsdam and then in Hamburg . In 1965 he received his doctorate in natural sciences under Emanuel Sperner on generalized double ratios and endomorphisms of vector spaces . He then taught at the Universities of Braunschweig and Hamburg before he was appointed professor at the University of Hamburg in 1968.

Biallas had been part of the FDP since 1969 and quickly rose to the top of the Hamburg regional association . From 1974 to 1978 Biallas was a member of the Hamburg Parliament . Initially elected parliamentary group chairman, his mandate has been suspended since his election as senator. On April 30, 1974, Biallas was elected to the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, where he held the office of second mayor until June 28, 1978 and headed the authority for science and art . Dieter Biallas played an important role in founding the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg through his role in Hamburg politics . At that time, he made the establishment of a technical university the subject of coalition negotiations with the SPD. From 1978 to 1986 he was a representative of the German Development Service and, from 1986, the Society for Technical Cooperation in various countries. Until 2002 he headed the German department of Transparency International .

At the end of August 2014, Biallas and the former deputy state chairman of the Hamburg FDP, Najib Karim , announced the founding of a new, social-liberal party. Biallas and Karim had left the FDP the month before. The founding of the party New Liberals - the Social Liberals took place on September 28, 2014 in Hamburg.

Publications

Generalized double ratios and endomorphisms of vector spaces . From: Treatises from the Mathematical Seminar of the University of Hamburg , Volume 29, 1966, Issue 3/4, pages 263–291, Hamburg 1966, DNB 481406743 (Dissertation University of Hamburg, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, July 6, 1966).
with Hans-Ulrich Klose and Volker Rühe : SPD - CDU - FDP contributions to the basic program of the political parties . Verlag Lütcke & Wulff, State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 1974, DNB 740867040 ; 4th edition 1977.

Web links

Commons : Dieter Biallas - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Heinrich Mecking, Christian Nedeß (ed.): Technology for people - Beginnings Development and chronicle the Technical University Hamburg Harburg . TuTech-Verl., 2014, ISBN 978-3-941492-73-8 .
^ Before the Saxony election: Ex-FDP politicians want to found a left-liberal party . Spiegel Online , August 30, 2014, accessed July 22, 2016.
↑ Resignation from the FDP. Hamburg1 , July 4, 2014, archived from the original on July 12, 2014 ; Retrieved July 22, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Biallas, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician and politician (FDP), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eydtkuhnen
DATE OF DEATH	17th July 2016
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Heinrich Mecking, Christian Nedeß (ed.): Technology for people - Beginnings Development and chronicle the Technical University Hamburg Harburg . TuTech-Verl., 2014, ISBN 978-3-941492-73-8 .

[2] Before the Saxony election: Ex-FDP politicians want to found a left-liberal party . Spiegel Online , August 30, 2014, accessed July 22, 2016.

[3] Resignation from the FDP. Hamburg1 , July 4, 2014, archived from the original on July 12, 2014 ; Retrieved July 22, 2016 .