Karl-Heinrich Riewe
German physicists
Karl-Heinrich Riewe (26 June 1907—1977) was a German nuclear physicist and a member of the German Physical Society.
Riewe was one of many German nuclear physicists in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. After the World War II, Riewe was taken in the custody by the Soviet Union, and held in Russia to work on their nuclear weapons but went onto a strike at a defense facility in 1948 where he was accused of sabotage. He was sentenced to 25 years in the GULAG and disappeared.
Career
In Germany
Karl-Heinrich Riewe was born in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, on June 26, 1907, into a German Jewish family. In spite of being born into a Jewish faith, he was a devoted Protestant Christian, as stated in his university job application submitted for the teaching position at the Wesleyan University in Connecticut, United States in 1937. In 1928, he entered in the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) to study mechanical engineering but eventually received his doctorate in physics from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1936–37. his thesis contained fundamental research on electrical conductivity at high frequency.
He struggled to find employment in Germany and submitted an application for a teaching position in the Wesleyan University in the United States. However, he decided against moving to the United States after accepting a technical position at the Auergesellschaft.
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