Ernst Pohlhausen

Ernst Pohlhausen (born May 20, 1890 in Mittweida (Saxony), † March 9, 1964 in Kiel ) was a German mathematician and university professor.

After graduating from high school in 1909 at the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Dresden , he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen from 1909 to 1913 and became Ludwig Prandtl's assistant . From 1914 to 1919 he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer and was trained as a fighter pilot from 1917 . After receiving his doctorate in Göttingen in 1919, he worked from 1919 to 1920 as a research assistant at “ Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen ” in Rostock-Warnemünde . Since 1921 he taught after Habilitation on the calculation of natural oscillations static-specific frameworks as ao. Professor and since 1924 full professor at the University of Rostock , from 1926 to 1945 full professor for applied mathematics at TH Danzig . He headed this from 1934 to 1941 as rector, from 1941 he was the curator of the scientific universities in Danzig. With the beginning of the war in 1939 he volunteered again for the war. From 1951 he lived in Kiel.

In November 1933, Pohlhausen signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 and in 1938 was SA- Sturmbannführer . Furthermore, he was from 1937 to 1945 in the Nazi lecturers' association Lecturer League Leader in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia . From 1937 he was a corresponding member of the "German Academy for Aviation Research".

literature

• Wolfgang Engel: Mathematics and mathematician at the University of Rostock 1419–2004 . Rostock 2005, p. 37. (Issue 60 Rostock Mathematical Colloquium)
• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 132.

Web links

• Entry on Ernst Pohlhausen in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Literature by and about Ernst Pohlhausen in the catalog of the German National Library