Reinhold Strassmann

Reinhold Strassmann (or Straßmann) (24 January 1893 Berlin – late October 1944 Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German mathematician who proved Strassmann's theorem. His Ph.D. advisor at University of Marburg was Kurt Hensel.

Strassmann refused to leave Nazi Germany, and he was eventually detained and deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. On October 23, 1944, he was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was murdered soon after.

He was the son of the forensic pathologist Fritz Strassmann.

Selected publications

• Straßmann, Reinhold (1928), "Über den Wertevorrat von Potenzreihen im Gebiet der p-adischen Zahlen." (in German), Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 159: 13–28, doi:10.1515/crll.1928.159.13, ISSN 0075-4102, JFM 54.0162.06, http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/dms/load/img/?PPN=GDZPPN002170485 

References

• Reinhold Strassmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• DMV short biographies
• Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2009), Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-14041-4, MR2522825, http://books.google.com/books?id=jBoEmGB3B3MC 
• Strassmann, Wolfgang Paul (2008), The Strassmanns: science, politics, and migration in turbulent times, 1793-1993, Berghahn Books, ISBN 9781845454166, http://books.google.com/books?id=2BN09N53Te0C