Mathwar/Noether Fritz
Fritz Noether
Fritz Noether (* October 7th 1884 in Erlangen, † September 10th 1941 in Orel)
Life
Not allowed to work in Germany for being a Jew, he moved to the Soviet Union, where he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Tomsk. In November 1937, during the Great Purge, he was arrested at his home in Tomsk by the NKVD and sentenced to a 25-year imprisonment for being a "German spy". While in prison, he was accused of "anti-Soviet propaganda", sentenced to death, and shot.