Horst von Sanden

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Horst Georg Julius Alfred von Sanden (born December 26, 1883 on Gut Nieder-Gielgudyszky , Suwalki Governorate , Russian Empire ; † March 19, 1965 in Erlangen ) was a German mathematician and university professor .

Life

Sanden came from an East Prussian noble family who had been raised to the Prussian nobility in 1796 (see: Sanden ), and was the son of Kurt von Sanden (1842–1901), administrator of the Nieder-Gielgudyszky estate, and Olga Mielke (1855–1891) ).

From 1893 to Easter 1903 he attended the humanistic grammar school in Tilsit , from which he graduated from high school. He then studied from the summer semester of 1904 at the TH Munich , TH Danzig and finally the University of Göttingen . 1908 Sands in Göttingen with a thesis on "The determination of the key points in the photogrammetry" Dr. phil. PhD . His doctoral supervisor was Carl Runge . Sanden completed his habilitation in 1911 and became a private lecturer at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Sanden married Luise Hütterott in 1912. There were three children from this marriage.

From 1912 to 1918 Sanden was an assistant at the Institute for Applied Mathematics there . During the First World War he was an active army soldier from 1914 to 1918, and from 1915 as a first lieutenant in the reserve. After the end of the war, he became professor of mathematics and mechanics at the Clausthal mining academy in 1918 . In 1922 he was appointed full professor for descriptive geometry and practical mathematics at the Technical University of Hanover . Between 1927 and 1929 Irmgard Lotz was his assistant there.

In 1929/30 Sanden was Dean of the Faculty of General Sciences, and from April 1934 to March 1937 Rector of the Technical University of Hanover . Under his aegis, the assistant contract of the chemist Günther Schiemann was no longer renewed for racist reasons, which marked the beginning of his removal from the university. It was from him that Michael Jung's publication about the history of the Technical University of Hanover was named after "Our hearts beat with enthusiasm for leaders".

In 1933 he joined the NSDAP (membership no. 2.957.023) and was part-time leader of the Air Guard Command 1/9 of the Air Force . In November 1933 he signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities and colleges . In the winter semester of 1934/35 he gave a defense technology lecture to around 80 listeners on the subject of theory, technology and the use of naval artillery . During the Second World War he served from August 1939 to April 1941 in a Luftwaffe intelligence regiment. In 1945 his property was confiscated, but in 1949 he was classified as exonerated . His retirement took place on April 1, 1952.

Awards

Fonts

  • Determining the key points in photogrammetry. Dissertation. University of Göttingen. Dieterich, Göttingen 1908.
  • Lectures on mechanics textbook. FRIEDR. VIEWEG & SOHN, BRAUNSCHWEIG 1st edition, 1955.

literature

  • Catalogus professorum 1831-1981 . Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover, Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1981, p. 265.
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy. Heidelberg 2004, p. 144 f.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses B. Volume XVIII. Volume 95 of the complete series, Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 , p. 365.
  • Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956). In: East German family studies. Issue 3/2007, Volume XVIII (55th year). Degener & Co, Insingen 2007, pp. 109-120.
  • Michael Jung: Our hearts beat with enthusiasm towards the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. BOD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The GHdA states Erlangen as the place of death. In other sources (such as DBE ) the nearby Behringersmühle ( district Forchheim ) is also mentioned for him , where his wife died.
  2. ↑ a b c Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich , Academy, Vol. 1, 2002, ISBN 9783050036472 , p. 225 in footnote 135
  3. ↑ Andrea E. Abele, Helmut Neunzert, Renate Tobies : Dream job mathematics! Career paths of women and men in mathematics , Birkhäuser, 2004, ISBN 978-3764367497 , p. 60
  4. ↑ Michael Jung: Our hearts beat enthusiastically to the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. P. 330.
  5. ↑ Michael Jung: Our hearts beat enthusiastically to the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. P. 233.
  6. ^ Karen Bayer, Frank Sparing, Wolfgang Woelk: Universities and colleges in National Socialism and in the early post-war period , Steiner, 2004, ISBN 9783515081757 , p. 43
personal data
SURNAME Sanden, Horst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanden, Horst Georg Julius Alfred von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Good Gielgudyszky , government Suwalki , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1965
Place of death Behringersmühle