Svend Riemer

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Svend Henry Riemer (born October 28, 1905 in Berlin ; died May 15, 1977 in Fullerton , California ) was a German sociologist who emigrated to the United States .

Career

Riemer had been a research assistant at Kiel University since 1930 , but resigned from his position in 1933 after he was informed that his dismissal because of "mixed marriage" was already planned. His efforts to get a scholarship to the London School of Economics were unsuccessful. In Sweden , with support from Gunnar Myrdal , he got a job at the Stockholm School of Commerce.

In 1938 Riemer emigrated to the USA. There he taught at the University of Minnesota and Cornell University, among others . From 1952 until his retirement in 1971 he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles . He was one of those emigrants from the social sciences who, in the new environment, devoted themselves more to teaching than to research.

Riemer did not return to Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the sociology of National Socialism. In: The work. Journal for trade union politics and economics, 9th year, Berlin 1932.
  • Middle class and socialist politics. In: The work. Journal for trade union politics and economics, 9th year, Berlin 1932.
  • The emigration of German sociologists to the United States , in Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology , 11 (1959), pp. 100–112.

literature

  • Ralph Uhlig: Expelled scientists from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) after 1933. On the history of the CAU under National Socialism. A documentation (Kieler Werkstücke. Series A: Contributions to Schleswig-Holstein and Scandinavian history, 2). Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1991.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 969
  • Sven Papcke : Riemer, Svend. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 564-566.

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personal data
SURNAME Riemer, Svend
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riemer, Svend Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1977
Place of death Fullerton