Mathwar/Personlist/Rademacher Hans
Hans Rademacher
(* April 3rd 1892 in Hamburg, † February 7th 1969 in Haverford)
Rademacher.jpegHans Rademacher
Life
He was certainly racially acceptable to the Nazi regime, but his views were most definitely not acceptable to the Nazis and he was forced out of his professorship in 1934. Of course given his pacifist views he had no wish to remain in Nazi Germany and he left Germany in 1934 to take up a Visiting Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. However for a short time between being dismissed from his professorship and leaving for the United States, Rademacher moved with his daughter Karin to a small Baltic town where he met and married Olga Prey. Olga remained in Germany, where their son Peter was born in 1935, while Rademacher held the Visiting Fellowship in the United States.
He had briefly returned to Germany after completing his Rockefeller Fellowship and, although he now returned to the United States with his wife, his daughter Karin remained in Germany until 1947 when he succeeded in helping her come to the United States. In fact 1947 was also the year in which Rademacher's second marriage also ended in divorce.