Erna Witt

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Erna Bannow (far right in the back) and her later husband Ernst Witt (far left) in 1932 near Göttingen

Erna Witt , b. Bannow (born October 6, 1911 in Schlawe , Pomerania , † December 14, 2006 in Hamburg ), was a German mathematician, politician of the Free Democratic Party and member of the Hamburg Parliament .

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Erna Witt passed her Abitur at the Oberlyzeum in Merseburg and then studied mathematics and philosophy at the universities of Marburg , Bonn and Göttingen . In Göttingen she was a student of Emmy Noether and in 1933 she was the first to sign a petition from students to the university's curator against the revocation of Noether's teaching license. After a break in her studies, she came to Emil Artin at the University of Hamburg .

Ernst Witt 1970

On July 25, 1939, she was one of Ernst Witt supervised dissertation on Cayley numbers for Dr. rer. nat. PhD . In 1940 she married Ernst Witt and became a housewife. The couple had two daughters.

In 1949 Erna Witt joined the FDP. For her party, she sat on the Fuhlsbüttel local committee from 1950 to 1952 . From 1957 to 1961 she was the chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Hamburg-North district committee . There they worked to reduce the noise caused by the Lufthansa shipyard at Hamburg Airport and called for the construction of a noise protection hangar, among other things. She also spoke out in favor of better equipping the district with children's playgrounds. In the 1960s she moved to Othmarschen .

On December 1, 1963, she became a member of the Hamburg Parliament. As a successor , she took the place of Hans Biermann-Rathjen in the state parliament until 1966 , who, as the Senator for Culture, resigned from his mandate as a member of parliament. She was a member of the Home Affairs and Air and Water Pollution Control Committees, as well as the Health Committee, the Legal Committee, the Submissions Committee and the Special Committee on District Heating.

Fonts

  • The automorphism groups of the Cayley numbers. Dissertation Hamburg 1939

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo by Emmy Noether, Erna Bannow and the Noetherknaben
  2. ↑ digitized version
  3. ↑ Erna Bannow, Octonions and the Leech
  4. ↑ “Unbearable” , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of October 11, 1958, accessed on October 30, 2018.
  5. ^ "A communal emergency" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of September 28, 1961, accessed on October 30, 2018.
  6. ^ “Senator resigns mandate” , in: Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 3, 1963, accessed on October 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Witt, Erna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bannow, Erna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlawe , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2006
Place of death Hamburg