Gerhard Garig ( German Gerhard Harig ; July 31, 1902 , Niederwrünsch - October 13, 1966 , Leipzig ) - a German scientist who emigrated to the Soviet Union after Hitler came to power. Professional physicist, who later became a Marxist philosopher and historian of science . Professor of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy (1948).
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| Gerhard Ernst Friedrich Harig | |||
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| Scientific field | physics , history of science , Marxist-Leninist philosophy | ||
| Place of work | Leningrad Institute of Physics and Technology Institute of History of Science and Technology Leipzig University | ||
| Alma mater | Leipzig University | ||
| Academic degree | Dr. phil. | ||
| Academic title | Professor | ||
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In the period 1938-1945 - a political prisoner in Germany, was kept by the Nazis in the Buchenwald concentration camp .
After the war - the head of the State Secretariat for Higher School Affairs of the GDR , a member of the Council of Ministers of the GDR (1951-1957). Head of the Institute. Karl Zudhoff, one of the founders of the scientific journal NTM.
Biography
He studied physics at the universities of Vienna and Leipzig , receiving in the latter the degree of Ph.D. for his dissertation in experimental physics. From 1927 to 1933 he worked as an assistant at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Aachen. Interested in the history of science, he began writing biographies of physicists for an encyclopedic dictionary. At the institute he became close to his colleagues from the Society of Friends of the New Russia, in 1933 he joined the Communist Party of Germany and was actively involved in underground activities.
Realizing that with the advent of Hitler to power, he is dangerously in Germany, he decides to go to the USSR . As a result of a two-year correspondence with academician A. F. Ioffe , he received an invitation to work at the Leningrad Institute of Physics and Technology . In October 1933 he moved to Leningrad, where he became an experimenter in the Department of Nuclear Physics of the Institute of Physics and Technology, published an article in Physikalische Zeitschrift . But feeling interested in the history of science , in 1934 he transferred to the Institute of the History of Science and Technology .
In 1935 he published his works “The Dispute of Tartaglia and Cardano on Cubic Equations” and “The Static of Cardano and Tartaglia”. Also in the Soviet Union published his scientific biography of Maxwell, the article "Lenin and Physics" and a number of reviews.
In March 1938, while trying to move to illegal political work in Nazi Germany, the Gestapo was arrested. In the autumn of 1938 he was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp . Released by Soviet troops in April 1945, along with the rest of the prisoners.
After his release, he remained in Leipzig, where in 1948 his wife and son moved from the USSR to him.
In 1948, a department of dialectical and historical materialism was created specifically for him at the University of Leipzig . G. Garig becomes the first German scholar, who received the title of professor of Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
Later he headed the department in the Ministry of Education of the GDR.
In the 1950s, the department was transformed into a ministry - the State Secretariat for Higher School Affairs of the GDR, and Wilhelm Peak was appointed by Garig to be its head, State Secretary and member of the GDR Council of Ministers .
Since 1951 - Head of the Institute. Karl Zudhoff .
In 1960, G.Garig, together with A.Mette, founded the journal on the history of natural science, technology and medicine - NTM (NTM International Technology and Technology).
He died in October 1966.
Awards
- Order for Services to the Fatherland (GDR) , 1955
- Order of the Banner of Labor (GDR), 1962 [3]
Literature
- V.S. Kirsanov - Let's go back to the sources? (Notes on the Institute of the History of Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1932-1938) , VIET No. 1, 1994, pp. 12-15
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119540932 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 filmportal.de - 2005.
- Г. G.Gariga page on the website of the University of Leipzig, 2014