Forms of remigration: émigré Jewish mathematicians and Germany in the immediate postwar period (Q2354120)

After giving a summary on Jewish mathematicians who had to emigrate during the Third Reich, the author discusses the remigration after 1945. He discusses three different categories: ``returning for guest lectures and academic visits; returning as visiting professors, while assessing the situation in Germany without any obligation to stay; returning to universities in Germany on a permanent basis as professors'' (p. 32). And of course there were some, who never again wanted to set foot on German soil. Richard Courant und Natascha Artin visited many mathematical institutes in Germany as early as in 1947. Paul Bernays, Hans Hamburger, Hans Lewy were guest lecturers in Göttingen in 1947. Friedrich Wilhelm Levi, Reinhold Baer, and Bernard Neumann followed an invitation to Oberwolfach during the nineteen-fifties. As far as visiting professors are concerned, the author mentions Ernst Jacobsthal, who was visiting professor at the Free University in West Berlin between the years 1950 and 1957. Ernst Julius Gumbel taught statistics and probability theory at the Free University in West Berlin from 1953 to 1956. Max Dehn had an invitation to come to Frankfurt, but unfortunately he died in June 1952. There were three Jewish mathematicians who became full professors in Germany: Friedrich Wilhelm Levi became professor at the Freie University in West Berlin in 1952, Hans Hamburger accepted an offer from Frankfurt University in 1954 and Reinhold Baer also came to Frankfurt in 1956. The author does not mention Emil Artin, who was not Jewish, but had to emigrate in 1937. Artin was in contact with the University of Hamburg since 1946 and became full professor there in 1958.