Mathwar/Personlist/Brauer Richard
Richard Brauer
(* February 10th 1901 in Berlin, † April 17th 1977 in Belmont, USA)
Life
Brauer was from a Jewish family so was dismissed from his post under the Nazi legislation which removed all Jewish university teachers from their posts. This was a desperate time for Brauer who realised that he had to find a post outside Germany. Fortunately action was taken in several countries to find posts abroad for German academics forced from their positions and a one year appointment was arranged for Brauer in Lexington, Kentucky for the academic year 1933-34. In November 1933 Brauer arrived to take up his appointment at the University of Kentucky, his wife and two sons following three months later. We should record that Alfred Brauer left Germany in 1939, but Brauer's sister Alice stayed behind and was murdered in a concentration camp by the Nazis.