List of scientists from the Technical University of Aachen who were expelled by the Nazi regime

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The list of scientists from the Technical University of Aachen expelled by the Nazi regime includes, as far as is known, scientists from the Technical University of Aachen who were deposed or removed by the Nazi regime , arrested, forced to emigrate, driven to suicide or murdered . The first version of this list is based on the information in Maximilian Scheer's book Das deutsche Volk anklagt , which was written in 1936 while in exile in Paris.

Quote

“After it came to power, the Hitler government not only chased the Jewish scholars out of German universities and colleges. It has deposed or arrested the pacifists, removed or imprisoned the Social Democrats, it has expelled all those who think freely from the German chairs. The most famous researchers and thinkers had to give way to the booming military boots of Hitler's Garden. "

- The German people accuse : Reprint from 2012, Hamburg: Laika-Verlag, page 55

Denunciations

In the spring of 1933, denunciation measures by the student body began at the Technical University of Aachen . The General Student Committee (ASTA) and the student leaders sent the denunciation committee specially appointed for this purpose, consisting of Hermann Bonin , Hubert Hoff , Felix Rötscher , Adolf Wallichs , and Robert Hans Wentzel, about which of the lecturers and professors were so-called "non-Aryan" descent should have been or supposedly or actually had an undesirable political attitude. In accordance with the law on the restoration of the professional civil service, their chair and teaching license should now be withdrawn. In all cases, the demands of the denunciation committee were complied with and the honorable gentlemen were either driven into retirement or emigration.

The mathematician Otto Blumenthal was killed in the Theresienstadt ghetto in November 1944 .

List of names

Technical University of Aachen
Surname subject born further life path
Otto Blumenthal mathematics July 20, 1876 in Frankfurt am Main Murdered on November 13, 1944 in the Theresienstadt ghetto
Walter Fuchs chemistry June 8, 1891 in Vienna Emigration to the USA
Arthur Guttmann chemistry April 14, 1881 in Breslau Emigration to England
Ludwig Hopf Mathematics and mechanics October 23, 1884 in Nuremberg Emigration to England and Ireland
Theodore von Kármán Physics and aeronautical engineering May 11, 1881 in Budapest Emigration to the USA
Paul Ernst Levy chemistry July 4, 1875 in Aachen Emigration to Belgium
Karl Walter Mautner Civil engineering May 2, 1881 in Enns Emigration to England
Alfred Meusel Economics and Sociology May 19, 1896 in Kiel Emigration to Denmark, later to England
Leopold Karl Pick mechanical engineering November 6, 1875 in Bohemia Died on November 15, 1938 in Aachen
Rudolf Ruer chemistry September 30, 1865 in Ramsbeck Died on August 1, 1938 in Aachen
Hermann Salmang chemistry March 18, 1890 in Aachen Emigration to the Netherlands
Ludwig Strauss Literary studies October 28, 1892 in Aachen Emigration to Palestine

Sources for layoffs and evictions:

Commemoration

literature

  • Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933–1945) , Aachen 2003, pp. 120–146.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Maximilian Scheer (Ed.): Das deutsche Volk anklagt , 1936, Reprint: Laika, Hamburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-942281-20-1 , p. 55.
  2. ↑ The details of the exact date of death are contradicting, it is also mentioned November 12, 1944.