Wolfgang Krull

Wolfgang Krull (26 August 1899 – 12 April 1971) was a German mathematician who helped shape the field of commutative algebra. He introduced important ideas that are now key parts of this area of math.

Krull grew up and went to school in Baden-Baden. He studied at the Universities of Freiburg, Rostock, and Göttingen between 1919 and 1921, where he earned his doctorate under Alfred Loewy. He taught at Freiburg and then spent ten years at the University of Erlangen. In 1939, he moved to the University of Bonn, where he worked until the end of his life.

During his career, Krull guided 35 doctoral students, including Wilfried Brauer, Karl-Otto Stöhr, and Jürgen Neukirch. It is also important to note that he was a member of the Nazi Party.