Felix Kolmer

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Felix Kolmer (born May 3, 1922 in Prague ) is a Czech physicist and Holocaust survivor.

Life

Kolmer's father was an electrical engineer in Prague, a member of the Czech Foreign Army (Legion) in Italy during World War I, and died in 1932, his mother died in 1941 as a prisoner in the Theresienstadt ghetto . Kolmer graduated from high school shortly before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia , after which he was denied studies as a Jew. He found an apprenticeship as a carpenter . In 1941 he was forced to work for the construction team that was supposed to set up the ghetto in Theresienstadt . He became a member of a resistance organization among the prisoners. In October 1944 he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp . He was liberated in the Friedland concentration camp , a satellite camp of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp .

After the war, Kolmer studied physics and received his doctorate in the field of acoustics . Since 1949 he was an employee and later director of the Institute for Experimental Acoustics, Optics and Printing Technology, where he published 200 journal articles and articles as an author or co-author. He was also employed as an assistant and lecturer at the Technical University of Prague and is a member of various international acoustic societies.

Kolmer got involved in reparation issues for Holocaust survivors in Czechoslovakia. He was u. a. Chairman of the Federal Association for Information and Advice for Persons Persecuted by National Socialists , Deputy Chairman of the Jewish Community in Prague and Vice-President of the International Auschwitz Committee .

Fonts

  • with Z. Faiman, B. Klimeš, J. Ledrer, JB Slavík, J. Tichý: Problematika zvukové pohltivosti materiálů: Určeno pro posluchače fak. electrotechn. inženýrství . Prague: SNTL, 1957
  • with Jaroslav Kyncl: Prostorová akustika: Vysokošk. příručka pro vys. školy techn. směru . Prague: SNTL, 1982

literature

  • Ján Rakytka: Life forbidden: the story of a Holocaust survivor who took part in the compensation negotiations . Edited by the German-Czech Future Fund . Translated into Dt. by Andreas Weber. Prague: German-Czech. Future Fund, 2001 (1999)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Prof. Ing., DrSc. Felix Kolmer (1922) - CV , at Memory of Nations
  2. ↑ a b To live is forbidden , at KAM po Česku
personal data
SURNAME Kolmer, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech physicist and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague