Boris Weisfeiler

Boris Weis Feiler ( born April 19, 1941 in Moscow, probably died in Chile ) was a Russian -born American mathematician, who disappeared in Chile since 1985.

Life

Weis Feiler received his PhD (Candidate items) in 1970 at the Steklov Institute in Saint Petersburg in Ernest Borisovich Vinberg. He emigrated in 1975 to the United States after his career was because of his refusal to sign a petition against a colleague, blocked. He was initially 1975/76 at the Institute for Advanced Study at Armand Borel and later a professor at Pennsylvania State University. In 1981 he was a U.S. citizen. As a mathematician, he has published over 30 works in particular to algebraic groups. Several mathematical concepts and a conjecture are named after him.

Weis Feiler was an experienced outdoor activist ( he left the Soviet Union over Siberia on foot) and broke the end of December 1984 alone to a mountain hike in the Chilean Andes. He disappeared on January 5, 1985 in the vicinity of the site of the Colonia Dignidad extended. Chilean police claimed that he had drowned. Weis Feiler, who barely spoke Spanish, had asked a shepherd for directions and showed him his destination on the map, a place near the south entrance of the Colonia. A brother of the shepherd saw him a short time later and notified the military police, who sent out a patrol. This was according to own data, which were reviewed by U.S. consular later on site, a backpack and footprints near a river and concluded that he had drowned while trying crossing.

To date, however, pursued rumors that the Colonia Dignidad, in the evidence of critics of the regime were tortured in collaboration with the Chilean secret police, played a role in his disappearance. According to documents of the U.S. State Department, there are testimonies of former residents of Colonia Dignidad, who want to have seen him several years after his disappearance there. It has been suggested that he was arrested under the suspicion of being a Soviet or Israeli spy, by a military patrol that took him to the Colonia Dignidad, where he was murdered. Human rights activists in the U.S. to Weis Feiler sister Olga ( she immigrated to the U.S.) try to explain his fate today. In 2006, she demanded in an open letter, which was signed by 27 U.S. congressmen and U.S. senators, Michelle Bachelet ( President of Chile from 11 March 2006 to 11 March 2010), Enlightenment. Olga Weis Feiler met Bachelet, 2006 in Washington DC and personally.

On August 25, 2012 announced the TAZ:

" On Wednesday, the Chilean judge Jorge Zepeda ordered the arrest of eight former police officers and military. Zepeda, known as persistent investigator for human rights crimes committed during the Pinochet dictatorship from 1973 to 1990, has initiated against the eight proceedings for kidnapping and criminal association. For the Judge Weis Feiler disappearance is a " forced disappearance " and thus a crime against humanity that is not time-barred.

The police had then stated to have kept Weis Feiler because of his military clothes for illegal immigrants extremists who wanted to hide in Chile. Therefore, they would have caught him arrested and this initially withheld. Later, the military reported that Weis Feiler had drowned while crossing a river on whose banks they had found traces of him. "

Olga Weis Feiler (2012 68 years old ) showed happy on the judge's decision. It was the first real step to clarify the fate of her brother.