Felix Burkhardt

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Felix Burkhardt (born February 9, 1888 in Herwigsdorf , † April 28, 1973 in Leipzig ) was a German statistician . He is a pioneer in business mathematics . Peter Stahlknecht is one of the students .

Life

Martin Hermann Georg Felix Burkhardt was born as the son of the landowner Felix Burkhardt. From 1902 to 1908 he attended the teacher training college in Löbau and in 1909 passed the Abitur at the Realgymnasium in Zittau . Then from 1909 to 1914 he studied natural sciences, mathematics and economics in Jena and Leipzig. From 1915 to 1919 he served in the First World War , mostly in a Leipzig munitions factory. In 1916 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. in mathematics at the University of Leipzig via the group-theoretical defining relation TS = SkTI (with Otto Hölder ), in 1922 the doctorate to Dr. rer. pole. in statistics at the University of Frankfurt am Main on pre- and postnatal mortality . He worked briefly as a teacher in 1919. In 1922 he completed his habilitation in mathematics and statistics at the Technical University of Dresden, and in 1926 the re- habilitation in statistics and insurance at the University of Leipzig.

1922–1926 Burkhardt was a private lecturer for statistics and mathematics at the Technical University of Dresden, 1926–1930 for statistics and insurance at the University of Leipzig, there 1930–1938 nplao. Professor of Statistics and Insurance and 1938–1944 full professor for actuarial mathematics and 1944–1945 full professor for statistics. During the time of National Socialism, he joined the NSDAP in 1933 and was also a member of the Nazi legal guardian association, the Nazi lecturers and the Nazi old gentlemen's association. In 1933 he had taken part in the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

1950 to 1952 he taught again as a professor with a chair for actuarial mathematics, business mathematics and mathematical statistics at the mathematical and natural science department of the University of Leipzig, from 1952 to 1957 as a professor with a chair for statistics at the economics faculty of the University of Leipzig.

1925–1938 Burkhardt was a member of the government and department head of the Saxon State Statistical Office . From 1945 to 1949 he worked for the city of Leipzig, the state government of Saxony , the German Economic Commission , the government of the GDR, the Central Statistical Office and the Soviet Control Commission. At the end of 1945 he had been dismissed from his position as a professor; a commission under Erich Zeigner rejected his application for reinstatement in 1947. In 1955 he was given a lectureship in statistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 1958 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Memberships

Fonts

  • The development of Wendentums through statistics (= the Lausitz Wenden, H. 6), Berlin 1932 ( digitized , PDF, 8 MB).
  • Mathematical requirements for retirement provision , Leipzig 1942
  • Co-editor: Mathematics and Economics , 8 vols., (East) Berlin 1963–1972

literature

  • Heinze, Albrecht u. a .: For the application of statistical methods . Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. hc Felix Burkhardt, Leipzig 1963.
  • Lange, Klaus (Red.): Contributions to statistics in the GDR . Professor Felix Burkhardt on the occasion of his 100th birthday, Leipzig 1989.
  • Müller, Eva (Ed.): A life for the science of statistics. Work and activity of Felix Burkhardt . Contributions to the colloquium in Leipzig on October 31, 1998, Leipzig 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Burkhardt, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Herwigsdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1973
Place of death Leipzig