Wolfgang Sachs (Manager)
Wolfgang Sachs (born September 23, 1899 in Posen ; † 1974 ) was a German manager and actuary .
Life
Sachs was born as the son of the doctor of engineering Johannes Sachs and studied mathematics and geology at the University of Frankfurt am Main from winter semester 1918/19 after graduating from the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main in 1917 and doing military service in the First World War . From 1923 he was an actuary at the life insurance company in Berlin-Steglitz. In 1927 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt under Martin Brendel and Ernst Hellinger (on some approximations in life insurance technology). Another examiner in the Rigorosum was Max Dehn .
Sachs held various positions in specialist organizations and was co-editor of the magazine for the insurance industry, he also published several scientific books.
He was chief mathematician and, in the late 1960s, a member of the board of the Victoria Insurance Company in Düsseldorf .
Fonts
- The changeable mortality, unconventional considerations of a practical life insurer, Tübingen: Mohr 1949
- Experience and expectation. Underwriting environmental problems. With an introduction by Helmut Kracke. Karlsruhe: Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft 1967
- Editor with G. Drude: Life insurance technology dictionary, Würzburg: Triltsch 1954, 2nd edition: Karlsruhe, Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, 1964
literature
- Renate Tobies Biographical Lexicon in Mathematics for PhDs , Rauner Verlag 2006
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Sachs in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1967, p. 1653.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sachs, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1974 |