Erich Stiemke, born 12 April 1892, died in combat on 10 September 1915. His <A HREF="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01283824">Ph.D thesis</A> was published posthumously in 1925, with the following preface: > Erich Stiemke, born on April 12, 1892, fell on September 10, 1915 in > the eastern theater of war. On the basis of the present work, he was > admitted to the doctoral examination in July 1914 by the Faculty of > Arts of the University of Berlin. For external reasons, the work is > printed only now (without changes). > > Keeping a distance from calculations, with an orientation only on the > concepts themselves, and with a wonderful view of the essentials of > things - this twenty-two-year-old has created a work that has not been > outdated by subsequent developments. These more recent developments of > the theory of ideals aim for the most general structure of > decomposition theorems, while maintaining essential finiteness > conditions in the form of chain sets; while here the finiteness > conditions are relaxed as much as possible, the structure of the > decomposition is largely retained. The combination of the two points > of view will open up new directions for the theory of ideals. > > E. Noether