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  2. Political views of Albert Einstein - Wikipedia

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    Born in Ulm, Einstein was a German citizen from birth. As he grew older, Einstein's pacifism often clashed with the German Empire's militant views at the time. At the age of 17, Einstein renounced his German citizenship and moved to Switzerland to attend college. The loss of Einstein's citizenship allowed him to avoid service in the military ...

  3. Albert Einstein - Wikipedia

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    Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, [16] in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879. [17] His parents, secular Ashkenazi Jews , were Hermann Einstein , a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch .

  4. Solvay Conference - Wikipedia

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    The third Solvay Conference on Physics was held in April 1921, soon after World War I.Most German scientists were barred from attending. In protest at this action, Albert Einstein, although he had renounced German citizenship in 1901 and become a Swiss citizen (in 1896, he renounced his German citizenship, and remained officially stateless before becoming a Swiss citizen in 1901), [3] [4 ...

  5. Einstein Papers Project - Wikipedia

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    The Einstein Papers Project (EPP) produces the historical edition of the writings and correspondence of Albert Einstein. The EPP collects, transcribes, translates, annotates, and publishes materials from Einstein's literary estate and a multitude of other repositories, which hold Einstein-related historical sources.

  6. Enshrined in the German constitution since 1949, Article 116 (2) of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany grants former German citizens who were persecuted and their descendants ...

  7. Jost Winteler - Wikipedia

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    Winteler encouraged Einstein to consider himself, "a citizen of the world," [132] and thus may have possibly inspired Einstein to relinquish his German citizenship and become temporarily stateless [133] (he would remain stateless from 28 January 1896 until 21 February 1901, when he acquired his Swiss citizenship).

  8. German immigration to Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    The reason for this, beyond the rising number of qualifying German nationals who had resided in Switzerland for the twelve years required by Swiss nationality law, was a change in German nationality law which permitted German nationals to hold Swiss-German dual citizenship (while prior to 2007, Germans wishing to be naturalized in Switzerland ...

  9. ‘Einstein’, A Gender-Swapped & Timely Take On German Police ...

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    The 2017 German series was a police procedural dramedy about the unknown great-great-grandson of Albert Einstein, a theoretical physics professor, who helps the police in solving murder cases ...