Wolfgang Gaschütz

[3] He was inspired by Andreas Speiser's book Die Theorie der Gruppen von endlicher Ordnung.

[4][5] Gaschütz received his Ph.D. (Promotion) in 1949 under the supervision of Karl-Heinrich Weise with doctoral dissertation entitled (Zur

[7] Gaschütz created a school of group theorists in Kiel, where there had been a gap in mathematical expertise in algebra since the death of Ernst Steinitz in 1928.

[12] Gaschütz organized the Oberwolfach conferences on group theory for many years with Bertram Huppert and Karl W. Gruenberg.

In 2000 Gaschütz received an honorary doctorate from Francisk Skorina Gomel State University in Belarus.