Reinhold Strassmann

Reinhold Strassmann (or Straßmann ) (born January 24, 1893 in Berlin ; died at the end of October 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German mathematician .

Life

Strassmann was a son of the coroner Fritz Strassmann . After graduating from high school at Kaiserin Augusta Gymnasium in Charlottenburg, he studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Berlin and Marburg from 1911. Strassmann served in the First World War as a war volunteer with the 1st Guards Dragoon Regiment and then with the infantry and was so badly injured by a shrapnel that his health was permanently impaired and had to visit sanatoriums in Switzerland again and again. Despite his injury, he remained a soldier in a machine gun company and was then with the Royal Land Registry in Berlin. In 1919 he married and continued his studies in Berlin. He received his doctorate with distinction in November 1923 at the University of Marburg under Kurt Hensel . The title of the dissertation was On the theory of p-adic numbers. Gauss's fundamental theorem and the roots of unity contained in a p-adic body . After completing his doctorate, he worked for the Baruch Strauss bank in Marburg.

In 1936 he lost his job as an actuary at Allianz due to the racist policies of the National Socialists . He refused to leave National Socialist Germany because he was taking care of his father, who was confined to bed after a stroke, but prepared to emigrate. His brother Georg emigrated in 1938 and relatives whom Strassmann took in escaped in 1939. When his father died in 1940 it was too late to emigrate. In 1941 he was forced to sell his house and ended up in the ghetto in the Bavarian Quarter . He was able to avoid deportation twice because his wife, a nurse who cared for him during the First World War and from whom he lived separately, traveled from Freiburg every time to take care of him. Strassmann was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944 . On October 23, 1944, he was taken from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz concentration camp , where he was murdered soon afterwards, "... exposed naked in a concrete room to the incoming Zyklon B ...".

The set of Strassmann is the p-adic analogue of identity record for power series in the complex. It was published by Strassmann in 1928.

literature

• Renate Tobies : Biographical encyclopedia in mathematics of PhD persons (algorism, studies on the history of mathematics and natural sciences, edited by Menso Folkerts, issue 58). Dr. Erwin Rauner Published by Augsburg 2006, DMV short biographies
• Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze: Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany. Princeton University Press , 2009. ISBN 978-0-691-14041-4
• Wolfgang Paul Strassmann : The Strassmanns. The fate of a German-Jewish family over two centuries . Frankfurt / New York: Campus, 2006, ISBN 3-593-38034-X

Web links

• Stumbling blocks Berlin, Reinhold Strassmann
• Jutta Lange-Quassowski : An extraordinary person in the Shoa: Dr. Reinhold Strassmann (1893-1944). Article in the stands .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhold Strassmann in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Reinhold Strassmann ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the database of the victim database holocaust.cz ( memento of the original from July 17, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Wolfgang Paul Strassmann : The Strassmanns. The fate of a German-Jewish family over two centuries . Frankfurt / New York: Campus, 2006, pp. 303–304.
4. ↑ Strassmann, On the stock of values ​​of power series in the field of p-adic numbers , Journal for pure and applied mathematics, Volume 159, 1928, pp. 13-28