Otfrid Mittmann

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Otfrid Mittmann (also: Otfried Mittmann; * December 27, 1908 in Ruda , Province of Silesia , † after 1968) was a German biostatistician who published on genetic issues during the National Socialist era.

Mittmann's father was a primary school teacher. He studied after high school in 1927 in Stettin mathematics and statistics specifically at the Universities of Goettingen and Leipzig. In 1935 he received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen (with Hans Georg Münzner and Alfred Kühn ). The dissertation dealt with mathematical questions of genetics ( mathematical-statistical investigations for the investigation of flowing characteristics ). He was a member of the NSDAP. He published essays on eugenics and the coercive measures used by the National Socialists in this area in the journal Deutsche Mathematik .

He also published in medical statistics after the Second World War, for example in 1964 on the incidence of bronchial carcinomas in North Rhine-Westphalia, although the authors could not determine any connection with cigarette consumption, and in 1968. In his publication from 1964 he is referred to as a biostatistician at the University of Bonn .

According to Volkmar Weiss , he is the founder of the probabilistic concept of type in genetics (probabilistic Mendelism), starting with his dissertation. His work remained without consequences in genetics according to Weiss and the relevant ideas were independently reintroduced from the 1970s ( Allan Birnbaum , Volkmar Weiss).

Fonts

  • On the eradication of an inheritable trait in characteristics with overlapping manifestations (case of single-pair inheritance), Deutsche Mathematik, Volume 1, 1936, pp. 149–155.
  • About the speed of the relative multiplication of beneficial mutations, news Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 1936, pp. 107–127
  • The chances of success of selection measures in the fight against hereditary diseases, German Mathematics, Volume 2, 1937, pp. 32–55.
  • About the speed of eradicating hereditary diseases through sterilization, Deutsche Mathematik, Volume 2, 1937, pp. 709–721.
  • Hereditary biological questions in mathematical treatment, De Gruyter 1940
  • Theoretical hereditary prognosis and choice of spouses, Deutsche Mathematik, Volume 5, 1940, pp. 328–337.
  • Functional relationships between zygote probabilities, Deutsche Mathematik, Volume 5, 1941, pp. 563-570.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to Renate Tobies, entry in short biographies DMV, web archive
  2. ^ Reinhard Poche, Otfried Mittmann, Oswald Kneller, Statistical Studies on Bronchial Carcinoma in North Rhine-Westphalia, Journal for Cancer Research, Volume 66, 1964, pp. 87-108, pp. 250-262
  3. ↑ Mittmann, On the statistical twin method, Metron, Volume 27, 1968, pp. 1-7.
  4. ↑ Weiss, Classic and Probabilistic Mendelism , Biologisches Zentralblatt, Volume 101, 1982, pp. 597-607
  5. ^ Birnbaum, The random phenotype concept, with applications, Genetics, Volume 72, 1972, pp. 739-758
personal data
SURNAME Mittmann, Otfrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biostatistician
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruda Śląska
DATE OF DEATH after 1968