Stefan Schottländer

Stefan Schottländer (born January 15, 1928 , † October 3, 1991 in Hanover ) was a German mathematician and professor at the Clausthal University of Technology . His main focus was on various areas of analysis , function theory and mathematical physics .

Live and act

Stefan Schottländer's father Rudolf Schottländer was a student of Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger and, after the war, professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. As a Jew, he was not deported because his wife was of Aryan descent, but had to work as a slave laborer during the war. As a half-Jew, Stefan Schottländer had to leave the Humboldt School in Berlin at his own request in 1943 and made up for two missed school years after the war.

Stefan Schottländer studied mathematics and physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and passed his diploma exam in 1952. He became a research assistant and received his doctorate in 1953 under Kurt Schröder . In the same year he became a research assistant at the University of Würzburg and in 1957 moved to Institute B for Mathematics at the TU Hannover , where he completed his habilitation in 1959. From 1965 to 1967 he was scientific advisor and professor at the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the University of Bonn , where he was also appointed head of the department "Mathematical Methods in Physics". In 1967 he was appointed to the Clausthal University of Technology and turned down further appointments to the universities in Dortmund, Hohenheim and Braunschweig. Stefan Schottländer was almost always a member of various committees and from October 1, 1981 to September 30, 1985, Vice-Rector or Rector of the Clausthal University of Technology. He introduced the full degree in computer science during his rectorate in 1984. At the University of Oldenburg , he set up the computer science department from 1984 to 1988 as chairman of the corresponding establishment committee.

He has headed the Lower Saxony State Association of the German University Association as chairman since it was founded in 1969, and in this position he campaigned intensively for the interests of universities. This work, in particular through the constitutional complaint made by the university association against the Lower Saxony preliminary law, made him known beyond the Lower Saxony area. The decision of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, which was fought at the time, was one of the decisive factors for university policy throughout the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s.

From 1976 to 1991 he was a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society and from 1989 until his death he was chairman of the class for mathematics and natural sciences.

Publications

• Hadamard's multiplication theorem and other compositional theorems of function theory , Berlin, Akademie-Verlag 1954

Web links

• Obituary by Hans-Joachim Weinert , accessed on December 22, 2018
• Stefan Schotländer on Mathematics Genealogy Project , accessed December 20, 2018