19 Facts About Abraham Esau

From 1937, Abraham Esau was head of the physics section of the newly created Reich Research Council.

In 1944, Abraham Esau became the plenipotentiary of the high-frequency engineering and radar working group.

From 1949, Abraham Esau was a visiting professor of short-wave technology at the RWTH Aachen.

Abraham Esau was born in Tiegenhagen in Landkreis Marienburg, West Prussia.

Abraham Esau was the son of Prussian Mennonites, Osar Abraham Esau and Maria Agnes Esau.

From 1902 to 1907, Abraham Esau studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat and the Konigliche Technische Hochschule zu Danzig.

Abraham Esau received his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1908.

From 1909 to 1910, Abraham Esau was a volunteer at the radio transmission division of the Berlin telegraph battalion.

From 1912 to 1925, Abraham Esau served as laboratory chairman of the Gesellschaft fur drahtlose Telegraphie in Berlin.

From 1925, Abraham Esau was president of the Deutscher Telefunken Verband.

In 1925, Abraham Esau began his association with the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.

Abraham Esau was rector there from 1932 to 1935 and in 1937.

In October 1933, Abraham Esau became a Staatsrat in Thuringia, a position he held until the end of World War II.

Abraham Esau was a member of the RFR from its inception, and he was head of the physics section, which included mathematics, astronomy, and meteorology.

In 1938, Abraham Esau was appointed Professor of Military Telecommunications Technology in the Faculty of Military Engineering, which had recently been founded at the Technische Hochschule Berlin, in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

From 1939 to 1945, Abraham Esau was ordinarius professor at the University of Berlin and president of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt.

Additionally, for this same period, Abraham Esau was president of the Deutsche Gemeinschaft zur Erhaltung und Forderrung der Forschung, known for short as the Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft, which had before 1937 been known as the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft.

Thanks to support from Leo Brandt, a science policy-maker of North Rhine-Westphalia, Abraham Esau was able to establish himself back into the German scientific community.

From 1949, Abraham Esau was a visiting professor of short-wave technology at the RWTH Aachen University.