Harel and then-Israel Prosecutor Haim Cohen were convinced enough
This information sparked a 1957 attempt by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to try to track down Eichmann.īut they could not find it, and returned empty-handed.Įichmann, second from right, smiles as a Jewish prisoner cuts his hair at Bergen-Belsen concentration campīauer traveled to Israel to meet with Mossad chief Esser Harel to pass on Clamer’s information. His daughter went on a date with Eichmann’s son, who bragged about his father’s true identity. It was widely known that Eichmann fled to Argentina, but Bauer was the only German lawyer intending to bring him to justice.īauer had previously received information about Eichmann from a half-Jewish man named Lothar Hermann who had moved from Germany to Argentina. He was the most powerful Jewish prosecutor in the country at that time. He landed in Argentina after living in Germany under a false identity for years, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.īauer fled his homeland during World War II, but returned after the fighting stopped. Bauer was a German Jewish prosecutor who made it his mission to hunt down Eichmann.Įichmann was captured by US forces after World War II, but he escaped from a concentration camp in 1946. Then this information was passed on to the bishop, who, in turn, passed it on to Fritz Bauer. Rice Prize Paper Award, a EURASIP Paper Award, a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, and the Vodafone Innovations Prize.Eichmann (circled) standing next to Gerhard Klammer and his colleagues from the Argentine construction company where the two men were workingīut they ignored his message, and he received no response to the startling advice.Ĭlammer shared the identity of his former classmate again in 1959 after returning to his homeland.Ĭaptivated by a close friend – a priest who served in the German army, he shared a photo of himself with Eichmann, as well as the address of the home of the mass murderer in Argentina. His research interests are primarily in information theory and communications theory, with applications to wireless, copper, and optical fiber networks. He has received several recognitions for his research, including an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, an IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2015. Wyner Distinguished Service Award for outstanding leadership in, and providing long-standing, exceptional service to, the information theory community. Gerhard is an IEEE Fellow and served as the 2013 President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. From 1998 to 2000, he was with Endora Tech AG in Basel, Switzerland, from 2000 to 2008 he was with the Math Center at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and from 2009-2010 he was with the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA. He joined TUM as Chair of Communications Engineering in 2010. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba in 19, respectively, and the Dr. Gerhard Kramer is Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).