Oskar Hauser

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Oskar Hauser around 2000

Oskar Hauser (born November 29, 1920 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † September 27, 2005 in Wandlitz ) was a German physicist , anti-fascist and university professor . He is the son of the mathematician Wilhelm Hauser and brother of the writer Harald Hauser .

development

Oskar Hauser is the second-born son of the mathematician and teacher Wilhelm Hauser and his wife Else, née Krauth.

In 1933, the young Oskar first came into contact with the political realities of the rising fascism in Germany - his father had exclaimed at home on the day of the Reichstag elections in March immediately after the Reichstag fire : "This is all the war!"

The emigration of the family from fascist Germany, which was planned as early as 1934, had to be abandoned because of Oskar's long-term hip disease. During this time Oskar completed his school education, partly as a self-study, and passed his school leaving examination in 1938 . In 1939 his father emigrated to England, where his wife and son were to follow. During both stopovers in France , the Second World War broke out and mother and son were interned (the mother in Mende and he himself in Libourne near Bordeaux). For the German authorities they were now stateless, but they did not become aware of this.

Stay in France (1940–1941)

After their release in 1940, Oskar Hauser and his mother tried hard but unsuccessfully to emigrate to the USA , where an uncle had already found work and accommodation. Instead, they moved to Paris , which was occupied by the German Wehrmacht at the time. Here they received a temporary residence permit; however, they were not allowed to re-enter Germany. They made a living with translations, school lessons and office work.

Return to Germany (from 1942)

In November 1941, Oskar Hauser was initially able to get to Dessau and later to Berlin by means of an employment contract for French foreign workers. His mother had meanwhile also managed to enter Berlin, which he now met again. Only then did he become aware of his expatriation. The authorities again issued him a temporary residence permit with the stipulation that he could look for work. He became a laboratory assistant in an AEG research institute in Berlin-Reinickendorf .

During this time, Oskar Hauser launched situation reports on daily events in Germany for French newspapers through a Swiss family.

New beginning in Berlin from 1945

After the end of the war, Oskar Hauser saw his idea of ​​a new, anti - fascist Germany on the way to realization. He joined the KPD in June 1945 (together with his wife, whom he married at the end of May 1945) . In the first months after the end of the war he worked as head of the employment office in his residential area.

From 1946 to 1951 Oskar Hauser studied physics at the recently reopened Berlin University . Influenced by his father's maxim "Education for All", he proposed at the KPD's first cultural conference in February 1946, as chairman of the student working group in Berlin, that workers 'and peasants' children who had previously not had the opportunity to acquire requirements for studying , preliminary stations set up for obtaining the university. Following this idea, support courses, which the pre-study institute followed, were first implemented. From this later the workers and farmers faculties (ABF) developed. Many a scientist or artist who later became famous and who came to study through the ABF also owes Oskar Hauser his way to the university, to the sciences or the arts.

Professional career

After successfully completing his studies in physics, Oskar Hauser worked at VEB Elektrokohle Berlin-Lichtenberg, among other things, on test methods for materials (carbon, graphite and silite). In 1958 he received his doctorate on a related topic.

From 1955 to 1967 he worked at the Central Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf near Dresden in the field of materials and solids . In 1964 , Oskar Hauser completed his habilitation on the subject of the effect of radiation on solids at the Humboldt University.

In 1967 he followed a call to the Humboldt University as a professor for experimental physics , he became director of the III. Physical Institute. From 1972 until his retirement in 1981 he was Vice Rector for Natural Sciences. Here he was responsible for the implementation of the university reform in the natural sciences, in this context he organized closer ties between science and practice and promoted women's studies.

In 1972 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1985 in gold.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hauser Chronicle, p. 125
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1972, p. 4
  3. ^ Neue Zeit , October 3, 1985, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, anti-fascist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2005
Place of death Wandlitz