Rudolf Straubel

Rudolf Straubel (June 16, 1864 – December 2, 1943) was a German physicist, scientist, top-manager, inventor and sponsor of community.

[citation needed] After graduating from high school, he initially served as a one-year volunteer in the Jena Royal Fusilier Battalion.

One of the consequences of the "German Geographers' Day" conference held in Jena in 1897 was the establishment of a "seismic station" under the direction of Straubel.

[citation needed] In 1903, Straubel became one of the managing directors of Zeiss and Schott, succeeding Ernst Abbe.

Rudolf Straubel played a key role in expanding research and the success of Carl Zeiss in the first half of the 20th century.

He resigned in 1933 because he did not want to bow to the pressure of his colleagues in the Zeiss management (Henrichs, Kotthaus, Bauersfeld) and the National Socialists (in the form of Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler) to separate from his Jewish wife Marie Straubel, with whom he had four sons.

In 1903, Oskar von Miller decided to set up a "German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology" in Munich.

A connection was sought with Carl Zeiss Jena for a reflector and a refractor telescope (delivered in 1908 and 1909 respectively) and Siegfried Czapski was elected to the board of the German Museum.

[3] The foundation's operations used a coal-fired power plant on the southern part of the glassworks, but the associated air pollution hindered optical and precision engineering production.

[citation needed] The Thuringian Minister of the Interior and Education Wächtler aimed for "a reform of the Marxist and liberalist-tainted Zeiss factory from head to toe" (translated from German).

Straubel was "related to Jews"[7] At a meeting in the house of Felix Auerbach he met Marie Kern, the daughter of a Jewish industrialist and banker from Silesia.