I discuss the family background and early life of the German theoretical physicist Fritz Reiche (1883--1969) in Berlin; his higher education at the University of Berlin under Max Planck (1858--1947); his subsequent work at the University of Breslau with Otto Lummer (1860--1925); his return to Berlin in 1911, where he completed his Habilitation thesis in 1913, married Bertha Ochs the following year, became a friend of Albert Einstein (1879--1955), and worked during and immediately after the Great War. In 1921 he was appointed as ordentlicher Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Breslau and worked there until he was dismissed in 1933. He spent the academic year 1934--1935 as a visiting professor at the German University in Prague and then returned to Berlin, where he remained until, with the crucial help of his friend Rudolf Ladenburg (1882--1952) and vital assistance of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars, he, his wife Bertha, and their daughter Eve were able to emigrate to the United States in 1941 (their son Hans had already emigrated to England in 1939).From 1941--1946 he held appointments at the New School for Social Research in New York, the City College of New York, and Union College in Schenectady, New York, and then was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Physics at New York University, where his contract was renewed year-by-year until his retirement in 1958. Keywords. Fritz Reiche - Albert Einstein - Fritz Houtermans - Alvin S. Johnson - Hartmut Kallmann - Rudolf Ladenburg - Philipp Lenard - Edward R. Murrow - Siegfried Ochs - Max Planck - Clemens Schaefer - Harlow Shapley - New York University - University of Berlin - University of Breslau - Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars - New School for Social Research - Nazi Germany - German bomb project - refugees - quantum theory - nuclear physics
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