Marcus Kasner

Marcus Kasner
Dr.rer.nat.habil.
Born 7 July 1957
Perleberg
Nationality German
Fields Theoretical physics

Marcus Kasner (born 7 July 1957 in Perleberg) is a German theoretical physicist[1] and the younger brother of Chancellor Angela Merkel.[2]

Background

He is the only son of Horst Kasner (né Kaźmierczak) and Herlind Kasner (née Jentzsch), and is of German and Polish descent. His grandparents changed the original Polish name Kaźmierczak to Kasner in 1930.[3] He is the brother of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (née Kasner) and of Irene Kasner.[3]

Professional career and political activism

His early career paralleled that of his sister Angela; like her he studied physics, earned a doctoral degree in physics (Dr.rer.nat.) and worked as a researcher at the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin. He earned his Habilitation with the dissertation Electronic correlation in the quantum Hall regime at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in 2002.[4][1] He has published papers in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review and Physica. Kasner currently teaches at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt and lives in Darmstadt.[5][6]

During the Fall of Communism, Marcus Kasner was involved in the opposition movement in East Germany in the same small circle as his sister as she started her political career. He was a friend of Günter Nooke, the founder of Democratic Awakening, and took part in political discussions on the future of the state.[7] After the German reunification, he was a member of Alliance '90/The Greens.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Bartz, Bettina, ed. (2003). "Kasner, Marcus". Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender. 2 (19 ed.). K.G. Saur. p. 1554.
  2. ↑ Bollwahn, Barbara. "Der Bruder, der stille Beobachter" – via taz.de.
  3. 1 2 Kornelius, Stefan (2013). Angela Merkel: Die Kanzlerin und ihre Welt. Hoffmann und Campe. ISBN 978-3455502916.
  4. ↑ Electronic correlation in the quantum Hall regime
  5. ↑ Jahresbericht des Physikalischen Vereins Frankfurt am Main
  6. ↑ "Marcus Kasner". Goethe University Frankfurt.
  7. ↑ "Die Schläferin". Der Spiegel.
  8. ↑ "Bei Merkels unterm Sofa". Focus.
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