Udo Wegner

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Udo Hugo Helmuth Wegner (born June 4, 1902 in Berlin ; † June 25, 1989 in Heidelberg ) was a German mathematician and university professor .

Life

Born as the son of the businessman Hugo Wegner († 1924) and Luise Cliemé, he passed his Abitur on March 1, 1921 and then began studying mathematics at the University of Berlin . On 12 October 1928 he was there with his dissertation "On the integer polynomials that for infinitely many prime moduli permutations deliver" the Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD. ) PhD . His supervisors were Issai Schur (1875–1941) and Ludwig Bieberbach (1886–1982).

In 1929 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen and in 1931 became a full professor at the TH Darmstadt . From 1937 he was a full professor at the University of Heidelberg and at the same time kept his teaching post in Darmstadt. One of his doctoral students there was Otto Buggisch (1910–1991) in 1938 , who shortly afterwards, during the Second World War , worked as a cryptanalyst in the encryption department of the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW / Chi).

After the war, Wegner went to ONERA , a French public research institute for aerospace, near Paris. In 1951 he received a teaching post from the TH Darmstadt and in 1956 a full professorship for technical mechanics at the University of Saarbrücken . After honorary and visiting professorships at the TH Darmstadt, the RWTH Aachen and the University of Stuttgart , he retired in 1970 .

In 1964 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the TH Karlsruher .

He died at the age of 87, leaving behind his wife Käte, nee. Müller (1905–2003), with whom he had been married since 1930, and two daughters.

personal data
SURNAME	Wegner, Udo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wegner, Udo Hugo Helmuth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	June 25, 1989
Place of death	Heidelberg