Wilhelm Britzelmayr

Wilhelm Britzelmayr (born August 27, 1892 in Passau ; † 1970 ) was a German bank director, economist , logician and university professor .

Life

Britzelmayr studied economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he wrote his dissertation on wealth tax or estate tax? PhD. In 1942 he became director of Süddeutsche Bodencreditbank in Munich , which later became part of Hypo Real Estate .

After the end of the Second World War , Britzelmayr founded a facility for logistical research in Munich, which was connected to Heinrich Scholz's logic school and organized logic colloquia from 1947 on. a. Georgi Schischkoff , Ulrich Klug and Kurt Schilling gave presentations. At the suggestion of Aloys Wenzl , Britzelmayr was given a teaching position for logistics at LMU in 1947 . In the winter semester of 1948/49, Britzelmayr made it possible for the computer pioneer Konrad Zuse to speak about his applied logic and the first programming language Plankalkül in his colloquium on formal logic . At the beginning of 1949 Britzelmayr's teaching assignment was converted to an honorary professorship and in 1956 to a full professorship . He was co-editor of Orbis academicus , the archive for mathematics , logic and basic research and of experience and thought . In 1958 he pushed through the appointment of Wolfgang Stegmüller . From 1962 his subject was called Logic and Basic Research .

Britzelmayr laid the foundation for the Munich logic school, to which u. a. Max Drömmer (* 1927), Franz von Kutschera and also Walter Hoering and Wilhelm Essler (* 1940), who did their doctorates with him, belong.

Wilhelm Britzelmayr retired in 1968 .

Publications

• Wealth tax or estate tax ?, A research on the methods of evenly recording funded and unfunded income , dissertation, 1930.
• About the oldest formal logic in the German language . In: Journal for Philosophical Research 2, 1947.
• Interpretation of calculi . In: Synthesis 7, 1948/49.

literature

• Journal for Philosophical Research , Vol. I, Issue 4, 1947.
• Journal for Philosophical Research, Vol. II, Issue 4, 1948.
• Albert Menne , Alexander Wilhelmy, Helmut Angstl: Controlled thinking. Investigations on the logic calculus and the logic of the individual sciences , Festschrift for Wilhelm Britzelmayr, Munich 1951.
• Max Käsbauer, Ed .: Logic and Logic Calculus . Festschrift for Wilhelm Britzelmayr, Freiburg 1962.
• Hans Dieter Hellige (Hrsg.): Stories of computer science. Visions, paradigms, leitmotifs . Berlin, Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-00217-0 . Therein: Hartmut Petzold : Hardware-technological alternatives in Konrad Zuse , p. 88.

Web links

• Wilhelm Britzelmayr in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)