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Ernst Storm (born January 12, 1894 in Tarnowitz (Upper Silesia); † May 23, 1980 in Wangen im Allgäu ) was a German university professor for mining and economics as well as rector of the Technical University of Berlin (today TU Berlin ).

Career

Storm was born the son of a master plumber. From 1908 he was employed in the Silesian coal and steel industry. From 1921 he completed a degree in economics and was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD . He then worked as an assistant at the Mining Economics Department at the University of Berlin. After his habilitation in economics, he was a private lecturer in the coal industry from 1930 to March 1933 . In 1932 he became a member of the NSDAP and the SA . In November 1932 he publicly called for the election of Adolf Hitler . Later he belonged to the NSKK , where he was promoted to brigade leader .

In April 1933 Storm was appointed full professor for mining and economics at the TH Berlin. He represented the subject areas of "Law, Political Science and Economics" and "Economics and Social Sciences" in the Department of Mining, located in Faculty IV for Materials Management and from 1934 in Faculty I for General Sciences, in particular for mathematics, natural sciences and economics .

From 1938 Storm was also a member of the newly founded Defense Technology Faculty V at the Technical University of Berlin. From 1934 Storm was head of the Bergwirtschaftliches Institut for ten years and from 1938 to 1938 Dean of Faculty I for General Sciences, from 1937 to November 1938 Vice-Rector (under Rector Achim von Arnim ) and from November 4, 1938 to 1942 Rector of the Technical University Berlin (with Vice Rector Oskar Niemczyk ).

On November 11, 1938, Storm banned the remaining 20 Jewish students from entering the university by registered mail by order of the Reich Ministry of Education. As rector, Storm was responsible for making statements as to whether so-called half - breeds should be allowed to study by the "Reich Minister of Education" Bernhard Rust . Formulations such as characteristics of the Jewish race are not recognized by the applicant over if not, then at least be seen in his appearance in his appearance to be clearly signed were from Storm.

Storm's political and academic career ended in 1942 when he was accused of earlier marriage to a Jewish woman and of "non-Aryan descent". Because of these allegations, he was given leave of absence as a university lecturer and removed from his position as rector. In 1943 he was expelled from the NSDAP. He then took up residence in Mittel-Schreiberhau .

After the end of the Second World War he was expelled from there and lived in Peine . In 1947/48 he worked at the Volkshochschule Peine and from 1948 was a research assistant at the TU Braunschweig . Storm was denazified as "exonerated" . He joined the CDU and sat for this party in 1948 in the Peiner district council. In 1949 he was a CDU candidate for the Bundestag. He was a member of the Silesian Landsmannschaft . In 1950 he moved to Wangen im Allgäu. From 1956 he lived there in retirement.

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  1. ↑ a b c d DBE: Volume 9, Schlumberger – Thiersch. , Munich 2008, p. 743
  2. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 169-170.
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 606
  4. ↑ University magazine TU Intern , July 26, 2013: Discrimination, exclusion, displacement. The Technical University of Berlin during National Socialism - by Carina Baganz , p. 6, book interior views
  5. ↑ Carina Baganz: Discrimination, Exclusion, Expulsion: The Technical University Berlin during National Socialism, 2013, Metropol-Verlag
  6. ↑ Helmut Heiber: University under the swastika , part II: The surrender of the high schools , vol. 1, Munich 1992, p. 554 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Storm, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnowitz , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1980
Place of death Wangen in the Allgäu