Wilhelm Maier (physicist)

Wilhelm Maier (born October 3, 1913 in Villingen (Baden); † April 25, 1964 in Monterosso al Mare , Province of Spezia (Italy)) was a German physicist .

Life

His father was a Reichsbahn chief inspector. Maier passed his matriculation examination in Villingen in 1932 and then studied physics, mathematics and mineralogy at the University of Freiburg until 1936 , interrupted in 1934 by voluntary labor service.

In August 1933 he joined the SA as a squad leader and became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 (member no. 4 141 562) . In 1936/37 he was an assistant at the physical institute of the University of Freiburg under Wilhelm Kast , which he followed in 1937 as an extraordinary assistant at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Halle . In 1938 he received his doctorate in natural sciences here. Maier worked on numerous Wehrmacht orders and completed his habilitation in 1943 with a thesis on crystalline liquids and was appointed lecturer in 1944. In 1945 he and Kast were taken to the American occupation zone in the so-called " Abderhaldentransport " and released from the University of Halle in absentia. In 1946 he was denazified and returned to Freiburg. Here he became a lecturer and in 1952 an associate professor.

In 1962 Wilhelm Maier refused to accept two appointments for the chair for physical chemistry at the University of Kiel or for a full professorial position in physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt , since he became a full professor for physics in Freiburg.

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• http://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/maierwilhelm.html
• UAHW, Rep. 11, PA 10432 (Maier); UAHW, Rep. 6, No. 1407; Information about the registry office Villingen-Schwenningen
• BUNSEN MAGAZINE · VOLUME 15 · 6/2013 Online at ht tps: //docplayer.org/22254133-Wilhelm-maier-1913-1964-ein-leben-ein-haben.html