Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach (December 4, 1886 – September 1, 1982) was a German mathematician. He studied under Felix Klein at Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in 1910. His dissertation was titled On the theory of automorphic functions (German: Zur Theorie der automorphen Funktionen). He worked on complex analysis and its applications to other areas in mathematics. He is known for his work on dynamics in several complex variables where he obtained similar results as Fatou, and for the Bieberbach_conjecture. There is also a Bieberbach theorem on space groups.

Bieberbach was an active Nazi and heavily involved in the repression of Jewish colleagues, including Edmund Landau and his former "dear friend" Issai Schur. He founded the journal Deutsche Mathematik to encourage and promote a 'German' synthetic style in mathematics. He published also a number of ideological papers but it is not clear whether this was due to his ambition or to his belief. In 1945, Bieberbach was dismissed from all his academic positions, but in 1949 was invited to lecture at the University of Basel.

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