Walter Brödel

This article is about the mathematician. For the fencer see Walter Brödel (fencer) .

Walter Christian Brödel (born April 26, 1911 in Leutersdorf , Oberlausitz , † January 9, 1997 in Bayerisch Gmain ) was a German mathematician and university professor.

Life

Walter Brödel was born on April 26, 1911 in Leutersdorf, Saxony, as the son of a pastor. He studied at the University of Tübingen , the University of Göttingen and the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate with distinction from Paul Koebe in 1935 with the dissertation “ On the deformation classes of two-dimensional manifolds ” and took up a position as an assistant. In 1941 Brödel moved to the German Research Institute for Glider Flight in Ainring , where he stayed until 1945.

After the Second World War , Brödel was appointed full professor and director of the Mathematical Institute at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in 1949. Since Brödel continued to reside in Bad Reichenhall and was a BRD citizen, he taught in Jena with a special permit. Due to his refusal to sign a declaration of principle that had been requested, he was monitored by the Ministry for State Security , including his so-called tea hours with Wilhelm Maier, employees and graduate students, where Brödel made negative comments about Marxism .

Walter Brödel remained director at the Mathematical Institute until 1961, the year the Berlin Wall was built and the inner-German border was expanded . He was dismissed without notice due to his “fundamentally opposing attitude” and his professor title was withdrawn.

In 1963 Walter Brödel became professor at the University of Würzburg , where he worked until 1976.

Walter Brödel died on January 9, 1997 in Bayerisch Gmain.

Create

Walter Brödel mainly taught in the field of analysis . He specialized in function theory . Together with Wilhelm Maier, he shaped the Mathematical Institute for many years, where they were both directors. Gerd Wechsung is one of Brödel's students and Fritz Krause is one of his doctoral students . Hans Triebel was Brödel's assistant at times.

Publications

• On the deformation classes of two-dimensional manifolds , dissertation, Leipzig, Hirzel, 1935
• Deformation classes in ambiguous topological mappings , Leipzig, Hirzel, 1937
• Continued investigations into deformation classes in ambiguous topological maps , Leipzig, Hirzel, 1939
• Functions with Gaussian mean property for convex curves and areas , in: Deutsche Mathematik , 1939
• About the zeros of the Weierstrasse schen-function , in: Journal for pure and applied mathematics , 187, 1950, web link
• Dedicated to von Staudt's prime number theorem Wilhelm Maier, in: Scientific journal of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Math.-Nat. Series, 10, 1960-61
• Developments of the Riemann ζ-function according to Dirichlet's polynomials , dedicated to Helmut Grunsky , in: Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association, Volume 67, 1965, Weblink

literature

• Uwe Hoßfeld , Tobias Kaiser, Heinz Mestrup (Hrsg.): University in socialism. Studies on the history of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1945–1990) . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-34505-1 .

Web links

• Walter Brödel in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)