Max Adler (physicist)

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Max Adler (born July 24, 1907 in Haßfurt , † June 10, 1981 in England ) was a German-British physicist.

Life and activity

Adler studied mechanical engineering at the technical universities in Munich and Berlin. Until the end of March 1933 he worked at the Institute for Applied Mechanics at the University of Göttingen as an employee of Ludwig Prandtl and at the same time at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research. That same year he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich with one of Dieter Thoma supervised work on flow in curved pipes for Dr.-Ing .

Due to the law for the restoration of the civil service - especially because of the provision contained in it, the persons who were considered Jews according to the National Socialist definition, with very few exceptions, were excluded from employment in state institutions - Adler's intention after the exam was to find an assistant position in Göttingen to start or to obtain a scholarship from the Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft. Instead he emigrated to Great Britain, where he found a job in a research laboratory at General Electric in North Wembley, Middlesex.

From 1939 he was interned as an enemy alien .

After Rürup, nothing is known about the further life of Adler, who was considered an expert in hydrodynamics, aerodynamics and thermodynamics. However, he was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police and in the spring of 1940 he was placed on the special wanted list by the Reich Security Main Office , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion of the British island by the Wehrmacht, were to find subsequent SS special commands with special priority from the occupying forces and should be arrested.

Fonts

  • Flow in curved pipes , 1934.

literature

  • Reinhard Rürup : "Max Adler. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research, Göttingen", in: Ders .: Fates and Careers. Commemorative book for the researchers expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society by the National Socialists , 2008, p. 147

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Adler in the database Britain, Enemy Aliens and Internees
  2. ↑ Entry on Adler on the special wanted list GB (reproduction of the entry on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London)
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hassfurt
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1981
Place of death England