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Ludwig Bieberbach
Ludwig Bierbach (* December 4th 1886 in Goddelau near Darmstadt, † September 1st 1982 in Oberaudorf) Mathematics Professor in Königsberg, Basel, Frankfurt and Berlin.
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Life
As Son of a M.D. Eberhard Bieberbach, director of an Asylum in Heppenheim, he studied in Heidelberg and Göttingen.
His Work was related to functions and their connections in various parts of mathematics. He published 130 articles and books. His most important work were his "Bieberbachsche Sätze" which post in every Dimension are only are finite number of cristallographical groups.
First defended Schur January 1933, but then persecuted his Jewish colleagues. As Ledemann's examiner he was wearing a Nazi uniform when conducting the oral examination for the Thesis. He developed the notion of a 'German' synthetic style mathematics as opposed to the abstract 'Jewish' analytic style. He founded a journal Deutsche Mathematik to encourage this German style in mathematics but, happily, the journal failed.
Schur was forced to resign from the Commissions of the Prussian Academy of Sciences after Bieberbach had written (on 29 March): "I find it surprising that Jews are still members of academic commissions."
Many mathematicians feel that Bieberbach could not have honestly held the views he did, rather the feeling is that he was ambitious to become the leader of German mathematics and followed a route which he thought would make him successful in this. After the end of World War II in 1945 Bieberbach lost all his positions because of his political involvement