Talk:Wilhelm Cauer

Pronunciation?
How do you pronounce his last name? ko'er? cow'er? kay'er?


 * The German diphthong au is pronounced like in English snout and proud etc. There is never any doubt on German pronounciation as it is completely phonetic.  The unusual thing for German is to start a word with a C instead of a K.  In fact, German never uses c by itself except for borrowed foreign words.  It is always in combination with another letter such as ck or ch.  Makes me wonder if Cauer was not originally a German name.   Sp in ni  ng  Spark  11:30, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Ever heard of Immanuel Kant? -- originally his Critique of Pure Reason was called Critik der reinen Vernunft. It is imprecise to say that "the unusual thing for German" would be to start a word with "C". There's a very simple explanation: there have been spelling reforms. Names of course kept their C, also today, so it is false to say German would never start a word with a C by itself.
 * To pronouce Cauer one can simply think of the word "hour" and add a "c"/"k"-sound, like in craft or kinship.
 * 87.150.255.245 (talk) 10:01, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Reverting the edit which mentioned Cauer signing the declaration of support for Adolf Hitler
@Spinningspark You reverted my edit -- you say it's out of flow with the article -- the primary objective should be that the article reflects the truth. Here it is written: "The rising force of Nazism became a major obstacle to Cauer's work from 1933 onwards." As can be seen by the primary source, Cauer signed the declaration of support for Adolf Hitler -- there were people who did not. It was not obligatory. It is written that the distant Jewish ancestor "was not sufficient to have Cauer removed under the race laws" -- this also sheds a wrong light. Example: Professor Helmut Hasse also had distant Jewish ancestors -- this of course did NOT mean that he was removed from office and also did NOT mean, that the NS-institution wanted to remove him from office -- BUT his application for membership in the NSDAP was denied, well to be more precise it was "delayed for a later decision". Don't you think in the name of truth one should mention that Cauer signed the declaration of support for Adolf Hilter? To hide that fact simply distorts his biography. Sincerely, 87.150.255.245 (talk) 09:43, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

"Cauer's career was stifled" ?!
How was Cauer's career "stifled"? He was appointed "apl. Prof." in 1939 -- is the "stifling" expressed by the fact that he was not immediately appointed "ordentlicher Prof."? With such a distant ancestor he could not become an SS officer -- but what else were the alluded restrictions? If that statement is not true, it should be removed. 93.224.105.138 (talk) 08:12, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


 * This is what the source (Emil Cauer) says; "Although this did not mean that my father was going to be affected by the Nazi race laws, he was given to understand that there was no future for him at the University of Göttingen." and later, "Therefore, although Cauer was nominally granted the title of professor in 1935, no chair was actually available for him. It took him quite a long time to realize that his life goal of an academic career would not work out." SpinningSpark 09:33, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


 * To be first appointed "apl. Prof." like Cauer was in 1939 (making the "nominally granted in 1935" obsolete) in Berlin (cf. here) is not unusual. The statement "no future for him at the University of Göttingen" is not very informative. The whole idea of a "sitfled career" is thus based on the fact that he was not appointed in Göttingen but Berlin and not appointed "ordentlicher Professor" but "außerplanmäßiger Professor" and the assumption that this would have been different without the Nazi rule. 93.224.106.122 (talk) 09:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)


 * The bottom line is that the source quite plainly takes the view that his academic career was stifled, so what the article says is in line with the source. I can't get full access to the source you linked, but it seems to merely say that he was an associate professor.  It does not give a POV on this point.  If you have a balancing POV then the article can be adjusted, or the claim attributed to just one person.  But as it stands, there is nothing from sources that can be added. SpinningSpark 14:08, 23 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Just gave it a shot. 93.224.106.202 (talk) 08:21, 25 April 2018 (UTC)