Who was Heinrich Hake?

Hake's Theorem, due to Heinrich Hake of Düsseldorf in 1921, says that an improper Henstock–Kurzweil integral (aka generalized Riemann integral, gauge integral, Perron integral, or Denjoy integral) on a bounded interval is already proper. That is, if $f$ is defined on a half-open interval $[a,c)$, $f$ is HK-integrable on $[a,b]$ for each $b$ satisfying $a \leq b < c$, and the limit of $\int_a^b f$ as $b \to c^-$ exists, then we may define $f(c)$ however we like and find that $f$ is integrable on $[a,c]$ and that $\int_a^c f$ equals the aforementioned limit. (The converse is also true; if $\int_a^c f$ exists, then it may be calculated as a limit.)

I can't find anything about this Hake. Most references just say ‘Hake's theorem’, a few say ‘H. Hake’, and Bartle's book on the HK integral says ‘Heinrich Hake in 1921’. Bartle also gives a reference, an article in Mathematische Annalen, whose byline says ‘Heinrich Hake in Düsseldorf’. And that's it.

Various online search attempts give me references to this theorem, the contemporary Düsseldorf telephone directory, and the 18th-century law professor Ludolf Heinrich Hake, but nothing more about the 20th-century mathematician who proved the theorem. Does anybody know anything about him?

• I see that the tag (biography) was created in this question. Tags with only one occurrence are removed after 6 months unless they have tag-wiki. So perhaps you could create some basic tag-info if you think that this tag is worth keeping. (Feel free to ping me either here or in chat after you read this comment so that I know that it is no longer needed and I can delete it.) – Martin Sleziak Aug 12 '18 at 5:30
• @MartinSleziak : I don't remember creating a tag, but I probably also didn't pay attention to how much something was used if it showed up when I started typing; is it possible that something was using this tag and the tag was later removed? Anyway, I don't really want to get into tag management and advocacy. It would be nice to have a tag more specific than #ho.history-overview for biographies of mathematicians, but I'll leave that up to others to decide. – Toby Bartels Aug 12 '18 at 20:04
• I'd guess if we want to continue this discussion, it would be better to do so somewhere else - so that we do not leave here too many comments unrelated to the question (perhaps in chat). But probably the easiest solution is to leave the tag to its fate - as you suggested. – Martin Sleziak Aug 12 '18 at 20:40