# Talk:Albert Einstein


### Albert Einstein
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He and his wife Elsa returned to Europe in March, and during the trip, they learned that the German Reichstag had passed the Enabling Act on 23 March, transforming Hitler's government into a de facto legal dictatorship, and that they would not be able to proceed to Berlin. Later on, they heard that their cottage had been raided by the Nazis and Einstein's personal sailboat confiscated. Upon landing in Antwerp, Belgium on 28 March, Einstein immediately went to the German consulate and surrendered his passport, formally renouncing his German citizenship. The Nazis later sold his boat and converted his cottage into a Hitler Youth camp. ...
In April 1933, Einstein discovered that the new German government had passed laws barring Jews from holding any official positions, including teaching at universities. ...
Einstein was now without a permanent home, unsure where he would live and work, and equally worried about the fate of countless other scientists still in Germany. Aided by the Academic Assistance Council, founded in April 1933 by British Liberal politician William Beveridge to help academics escape Nazi persecution, Einstein was able to leave Germany.
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This implies that after Einstein turned in his passport at the German consulate on March 28, 1933, he must have nonetheless re-entered Germany, since an organization founded the following month (the Academic Assistance Council) aided him in leaving Germany. However, Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, which is a source used in this section, says the opposite. "The news of the raid on his Caputh cottage determined Einstein's relationship to his German homeland. He never would go back there. As soon as his ship docked in Antwerp on March 28, 1933, he had a car drive him to the German consulate in Brussels, where he turned in his passport ...."
Einstein would not have needed help in leaving Germany if he wasn't in Germany. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:13, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

This man uncovered the mechanisms of the universe and we are talking about his every administrative move with his citizenship documents. Who cares????? Shoshin000 (talk) 08:20, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

Probably the Germans, who did not appreciate Einstein switching nationalities and helping the Americans achieve scientific advances, including the atom bomb. Einstein is not well-known only because of his scientific breakthroughs but how he used them. Yue🌙 04:44, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
Is this an article about Albert Einstein, the man, or Albert Einstein, the legal person? Shoshin000 (talk) 21:35, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
Einstein's move to Switzerland was a conscription-evading effort.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by K8gh32pr (talk • contribs) 09:57, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
The mechanisms were discovered earlier by Fitzgerald, Lamour, Poincare and others.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by K8gh32pr (talk • contribs) 10:04, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Split Legacy of Einstein into Albert_Einstein#Legacy and Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career. Redux the gap of cultural history of scientist. 102.68.86.97 (talk) 06:29, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
You're making a lot of proposals on different articles, but I don't think you understand the purpose of splits, merges or moves. This proposal hasn't been done properly (no templates added to the article), and it isn't clear what you're even proposing, if it even is a split. Yue🌙 21:35, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Change the currently broken link to his PhD thesis to its new location at https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/20.500.11850/139872/1/eth-30378-01.pdf Lukasc-ch (talk) 20:45, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
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