Josef Naas

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Josef Naas (born October 16, 1906 in Cologne , † January 3, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician. He was director and professor at the German Academy of Sciences in East Berlin.

Life

Josef Naas at the opening of the Berlin University on January 29, 1946. From left: Naas as representative of DVV, Theodor Brugsch , professor and department head for higher education of DVV , Paul Wandel as president of DVV at the microphone, right Tjulpanov and Solotuchin as representative of SMAD . Brugsch carried out the investiture of the new rector Johannes Stroux .

Josef Naas was born in Cologne and grew up there. From 1928 to 1933 he studied mathematics in Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg with the minor subjects physics and philosophy. In 1935 he received his doctorate on the subject of the curvature of the side. Contribution to the theory of surface bending .

He then worked for two years in research with Professor Wilhelm Blaschke in Hamburg and was then employed by the German Aviation Research Institute . In 1932 he joined the KPD. At the beginning of the Second World War he was assigned the task of calculating trajectories of ballistic projectiles for railway guns. Since he deliberately delivered unusable results, he was charged with sabotage before the People's Court , but was sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp as a political prisoner because of lack of evidence because of his opposition to the regime without a completed trial.

After the Second World War, Naas initially worked in Berlin in 1945 as head of the committee for scientific management of the magistrate and became head of the cultural department of the Central Committee of the SED. He was particularly involved in the reconstruction and redesign of the academy in Berlin. In autumn 1946 he succeeded Helmuth Scheel as director of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and remained so until 1953. After being appointed professor at the academy in May 1953, he headed the Academy's Institute for Pure Mathematics until 1959 . From 1959 to 1971 he was its director and head of the differential geometry research group .

Josef Naas was temporarily (from 1953) co-editor of the journal Wissenschaftliche Annalen , which was published by the Berlin Academy to disseminate new research results. In particular, he was also the co-founder and long-time editor of the journal Mathematische Nachrichten , for which he worked from 1946 to 1986.

In 1986 he was awarded the Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit .

literature

Fonts (selection)

  • About the curve of the side. Contribution to the theory of surface bending , Math. Ann. 113 (1937) 48-82.
  • The intelligentsia and the reconstruction of Germany , Free German Trade Union Confederation, 1946.
  • Josef Naas: Report on the work of the Academy since August 1, 1946. In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1946-1949 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1950.
  • Contributions to complex analysis and its applications in differential geometry , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1974.
  • Josef Naas, Hermann Ludwig Schmid : Mathematical dictionary: with inclusion of theoretical physics , 2 volumes, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1961, 3rd edition 1979, 1984.
  • Josef Naas, Wolfgang Tutschke : Big sentences and beautiful proofs of mathematics , (3rd edition) Scientific publisher Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main ISBN 978-3-8171-1822-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soren Flachowsky: The scientific organizer John Stroux at Berlin University from 1945 to 1947. In: Yearbook for University History . 7/2004. Franz Steiner Verlag, p. 203
  2. ↑ Peter Th. Walther: Thinking grid and cadre policy of the SED in the German AdW on (East) Berlin , In: Petra Boden, Rainer Rosenberg: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft 1945-1965: Case studies on institutions, discourses, people , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, P. 164, ISBN 3-05-002930-7 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kocka (ed.), Peter Nötzoldt (collaborator), Peter Th. Walther (collaborator): The Berlin Academies of Sciences in divided Germany, 1945-1990 Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Interdisciplinary working group Berlin Academy History in the 19th and 20th Century, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 441., ISBN 3-05-003544-7 .
  4. ↑ Siegfried Gähler, Werner Gähler: Obituary for Josef Naas , In: Mathematische Nachrichten , Vol 161, Issue 1, November 11, 2006.
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 30, 1986, p. 5

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personal data
SURNAME Naas, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1993
Place of death Berlin