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Max Pinl
Max Pinl (* August 17th 1897 in Dux, † September 16th 1978 in Köln)
Life
1915 he served in the First World War, 1916 he was captured by the Russians and was brought in a war camp. He fled in 1918.
In Later years he protected the relativity theorie though some oh his collueges got in trouble defending this idee. Therefore he was arrested by the Gestapo (Secret Federal Police). He wasn't allowed to work in Universities anymore so he worked in the Messerschmitt aircraft production until the end of war. After war he returned as Professor and collected stories of Mathematicians who had been persecuted in war.