Alphons Silbermann (August 11, 1909 – March 4, 2000) was a German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist.
), the rise of Nazism led Silbermann to emigrate to the Netherlands and 1938 from Amsterdam via Paris, where he worked as a waiter, to Sydney.
[1] His academic career started in 1944 in Sydney at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music.
[2] Alphons Silbermann was a member of the "Cologne School" (Kölner Schule) along with René König and others.
[3] He was an important German pioneer of empirical methods, as against the ideological biases of many contemporary colleagues like his favorite opponent Theodor W.