Wilhelm Süss
Wilhelm Süss was a German mathematician. He was founder and first director of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach.
He was born in Frankfurt, Germany and died in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
Süss earned a Ph.D. degree in 1922 from Goethe University Frankfurt, for a thesis written under the direction of Ludwig Bieberbach. In 1928 he took a lecturing position at the University of Greifswald, and in 1934 he became a Professor at the University of Freiburg.
Wilhelm Süss was a member of the Sturmabteilung, the National Socialist German Lecturers League, and of the Nazi Party.
In 1936-1940, he was an editor of the journal Deutsche Mathematik.
