Wilhelm Vauck
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Wilhelm Vauck | |
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 Picture of Wilhelm Vauck while working with a Slide rule. | |
| Born | 8 June 1896 |
| Died | 8 December 1968 (aged 72) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Alma mater | TU Dresden |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Physics |
| Doctoral advisor | Gerhard Hermann Waldemar Kowalewski |
Wilhelm Vauck (born 8 October 1896 in Neustadt, Dresden; died 8 December 1968 in Bautzen) was a German mathematician,[1] physicist and university lecturer in physics and electrical engineering.[2] During World War II, Vauck was the director of the agents Referat within the Funkabwehr, the German Armies radio counter-intelligence organisation. As an anti-nazi, Vauck's work on the discovery of the Rote Kapelle anti-fascist resistance group during World War II, burdened him deeply until the end of his life.[2][3]
After World War I finished, Vauck undertook study of mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Dresden. In 1922, he passed the exam for a higher education office, and two years later, under supervision of Gerhard Kowalewski, Vauck was promoted to Dr. phil with a thesis titled A generalisation of Bolzano's continuous but non-differentiable function (German: Versuch einer Verallgemeinerung der stetigen nirgends differenzierbaren Funktion Bolzanos) which is within Mathematics Subject Classification 26 Real functions.
Vauck's first career position was as a teacher at the secondary school in Thum and then from 1926 as a teacher at the secondary school in Bautzen.[2] After the war from 1948, he became a teacher in Bautzen and later became a lecturer in physics and electrical engineering at the engineering school in Bautzen.[2]
