Alfred Klose
German mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wilhelm Rudolf Alfred Klose was a German applied mathematician and astronomer. Education and career Klose studied at University of Breslau and University of Göttingen from 1916 and was an assistant at the observatory in Breslau from 1917. He received his doctorate in astronomy in 1921 in Breslau under Alexander Wilkens . After that he was at the University of Greifswald and its observatory, where he habilitated in 1922 and became a privatdozent. In 1923 he habilitated at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1924 he became an associate professor of mechanics and theoretical astronomy at University of Latvia in Riga. In 1929 he became an associate professor of astronomy at Humboldt University of Berlin and, after Hilda Geiringer left in 1933, succeeded her as assistant to Theodor Vahlen at the Institute for Applied Mathematics. As an assistant he deputized for Vahlen, who took up a position at the Ministry of Education from 1933 and concentrated on his work there, but had succeeded the expelled Richard von Mises in 1934. In 1937 he became a full professor of applied mathematics and director of the institute. Actually, he had been classified as unsuitable because of his specialization in astronomy. The positive classification by Ludwig Bieberbach and Theodor Vahlen played a role in this – Klose was an active National Socialist. The institute went into decline and even in the Second World War no war-related work was done there - instead, Klose and two assistants were drafted. He was the laboratory manager of a test center of the Army Weapons Office for rocket tests in Gottow and at the Kummersdorf firing range near Luckenwalde. On the other hand, one of his assistants, Karl-Heinz Boseck , had a great influence on the mathematics faculty as a former student leader, member of the SS and fanatical National Socialist of the Second World War.
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