Siegfried Berliner (physicist)

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Grave of Sigfrid and Anna Berliner in Hanover

Siegfried Berliner (also: Sigfrid or Sigfried Berliner ; born February 15, 1884 in Hanover ; died October 16, 1961 in Forest Grove , Oregon ) was a German physicist, lecturer and university professor.

Life

Siegfried Berliner was born in the early days of the German Empire as the son of the Jewish commercial school director Manfred Berliner (1853–1931). He was a brother of Cora Berliner and a nephew of Jacob Berliner , the founder of Deutsche Grammophon Emil Berliner and Joseph Berliner .

After graduating from what was then a secondary school, today's Tellkampfschule in Hanover, Berliners studied mathematics, physics and economics at the University of Leipzig . There he became a member of the (striking) equal student union Alsatia in the Burschenbunds-Convent . He moved to the Georg August University in Göttingen and the United States . In 1905 he was with Eduard Riecke with a thesis on the behavior of the cast iron with slow load change his doctorate . In 1906/07 he served in Hanover as a one-year volunteer in the 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74 .

On September 25, 1910 married in Berlin in Halberstadt born born Anna Meyer (1889-1977). After teaching at various commercial colleges, Berliner was appointed professor for business administration at the University of Tokyo in 1912 . After the beginning of the First World War became known , Siegried Berliner traveled together with 118 other reservists and volunteers from Japan to Tsingtao in the German colony of Kiautschou in China as Vice Sergeant of Landwehr I in the 7th Company of III. Sea battalion in Tsingtau and leader of a searchlight at Infantry Plant II. After three months he was taken prisoner by the Japanese and taken to the camp in Marugame on the island of Shikoku . He had to spend five years there.

At times, Berliner worked as a lecturer at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management . He founded Deutsche Lloyd Lebensversicherung and headed it as director until 1937. In the meantime, he had been relieved of his teaching post at the University of Leipzig in 1933 by the National Socialist German Workers' Party . In the year of the November pogroms 1938 he was able to emigrate to the USA. However, his youngest sister Cora became one of millions of victims of the Holocaust . Berliner's ashes were transferred to Hanover and buried in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede .

By unanimous decision of the Senate of the University of Göttingen on October 27, 2004, Siegfried Berliner and other Göttingen university professors were awarded the doctorate that had been revoked during the National Socialist era .

Fonts

Siegfried Berliner published numerous articles for various journals, including the Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft , the Zeitschrift für Handelswissenschaft und Handelspraxis and the Zeitschrift für Handelswissenschaftlicheforschung , as well as for the World Economic Archive , the concise dictionary of business administration and numerous Japanese journals. He also published

  • Siegfried Berliner: Pensions and bonds , Leipzig: CE Poeschel Verlag, 1912
  • Political arithmetic - insurance calculation for non-mathematicians , CE Poeschel Verlag, Leipzig 1912
  • in the series Weltwirtschaftliche Abhandlungen , initially published by Hahnschen Buchhandlung, from 1925 to 1933 by CE Poeschel Verlag:
    • Vol. 1: Organization and operation of the Japanese import trade , by Dr. S. Berliner, before the war professor of commercial technology at the Imperial University of Tokyo, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung (and CE Poeschel Verlag), 1920
    • Vol. 2: Organization and operation of the import business in China (1920)
    • Vol. 3: Siegfried Berliner, Kurt Meißner: The Development of the Japanese Railway Industry during the War (1920)
    • Vol. 4: Organization and operation of the export business in China (1920)
    • Vol. 6: Organization of the indigo trade in the land of Awa (1924)
    • Vol. 8: The peanut trade in Shantung (1926)
  • Sigfrid Berliner: Money as Capital. Tomosaburo Kishimoto, Japanese banking (reprint of the edition from Stuttgart, Poeschel, 1924), Issue 1, Zurich: Danowski, [circa 1998], ISBN 83-7218-328-7
  • Tomosaburo Kushimoto, S. Berliner: Japanese Banking. Money as Capital , 1st edition, Zurich: Literature Agency Danowski, 2007

literature

  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 94
  • Axel Kümmel: Berliner, Siegfried. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 45-46.
  • Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: A Study of Institutional and Personal History . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , pp. 658-662
  • Berliner, Siegfried , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 30

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Berliner (Professor)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f o.V. : Berliner, Siegfried in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of November 19, 2010, last accessed on March 7, 2017
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Compare the inscriptions on the tombstone of Anna and Sigfrid Berliner
  4. ^ Kurt Naumann: Directory of the members of the old gentlemen's association of BC Munich e. V. and all other former BCers as well as the old men of the Wiener SC . Saarbrücken, Christmas 1962.
  5. ↑ a b c Hans K. Rode: Berliner, Siegfried & Anna ベ ル リ ナ ー ・ シ グ フ リ ド と ア ン ア (1884–1961) 、 Hochschullehrer 大学 教授 on the page das-japanische-gedaechtnis.de , last accessed on March 7, 2017
  6. ↑ Detlef Kantowsky: "The tea cult in Japan". A reminder of the fundamental work of Anna Berliner (PDF document). In: International Asia Forum , Vol. 40 (2009), No. 1-2, pp. 159-168
  7. ↑ Senate resolution on the revocation of doctoral degrees during the Nazi era / October 27, 2004 (unanimously) on the uni-goettingen.de website , last accessed on March 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Berliner, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berliner, Sigfrid; Berliner, Sigfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American physicist, lecturer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1961
Place of death Forest Grove (Oregon)