Mathematicians at War Power Struggles in Nazi Germany’s Mathematical Community: Gustav Doetsch and Wilhelm Süss
The article discusses several examples of power struggles in Nazi Germany’s mathematical community. Among them are the fate of German participation in J.E.L. Brouwer’s journal Compositio mathematica in 1934/35. Ludwig Bieberbach put an end to this participation for political reasons. Special attention is paid to developments in the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV), above all to the presidency of Wilhelm Süss in the years 1937 to 1945. The pre-war years of his presidency were overshadowed...