(Encyclopedia) Roehm or Röhm, ErnstRoehm or Röhm, Ernstboth: ĕrnst röm [key], 1887–1934, German National Socialist leader. An army officer in World War I, he met (1919) Adolf Hitler, whose political…
(Encyclopedia) Ruska, Ernst, 1906–88, German electrical engineer. By applying the discovery that electron waves are 100,000 times shorter than those of light, Ruska built a microscope that used a…
(Encyclopedia) Toller, ErnstToller, Ernstĕrnst tôlˈər [key], 1893–1939, German dramatist and poet of the expressionist school. He was imprisoned (1919–24) for participating in the Communist Bavarian…
(Encyclopedia) Cassirer, ErnstCassirer, Ernstĕrnst käsērˈər [key], 1874–1945, German philosopher. He was a professor at the Univ. of Hamburg from 1919 until 1933, when he went to Oxford; he later…
(Encyclopedia) Abbe, ErnstAbbe, Ernstĕrnst äˈbə [key], 1840–1905, German physicist. He was appointed professor at the Univ. of Jena in 1870 and director of its astronomical and meteorological…
(Encyclopedia) Wiechert, ErnstWiechert, Ernstĕrnst vēˈkhĕrt [key], 1887–1950, German novelist. His works, distinguished by a poetic prose style, generally deal with his native East Prussia and the…
(Encyclopedia) Bloch, Ernst, 1885–1977, German Marxist philosopher. He taught at the Univ. of Leipzig (1918–33), drifting toward Marxist thought during the 1920s. He fled the Nazis after 1933, moving…
Senate Years of Service: 1921-1927Party: RepublicanERNST, Richard Pretlow, a Senator from Kentucky; born in Covington, Ky., February 28, 1858; attended the public schools; graduated from…
BUSBEY, Fred Ernst, a Representative from Illinois; born in Tuscola, Douglas County, Ill., February 8, 1895; attended the public schools, Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill., and…
