Dietrich Mahnke

Dietrich Mahnke ( born October 17, 1884 in Verden, † July 25, 1939 in Fürth ) was a German philosopher and historian of mathematics.

Mahnke passed the Abitur at Domgymnasium Verden and studied until 1906, mathematics, physics and philosophy. He was from 1911 to 1927 teachers in Stade and Greifswald, from 1914 to 1918 he did military service as an officer on the Western Front. In 1925 he earned his doctorate at the University of Freiburg on Leibniz ( Leibniz's synthesis of universal and individual mathematics metaphysics, Yearbook of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1925) with Edmund Husserl and was a lecturer in 1926 in Greifswald, 1927 professor of philosophy in Marburg. As Dean 1932-1934 he signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler in November 1933.

As a historian of mathematics, he worked primarily with Leibniz and his development of calculus ( New insights into the history of discovery of higher analysis, 1925). He worked on the publication of the mathematical correspondence between Leibniz, which was continued after his death by Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann. He died as a result of an accident.

Mahnke was active in the Lutheran Church and do not agree with the racial measures in 1933.