Gerhard Wagner (physicist)
Education and early life
Education and early life
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Wagner was born in 1945 in [Bor](/wiki/Bor_%28Tachov_District%29 "Bor (Tachov District)") (now in the Czech Republic). He was the first to receive a college education in his family. Born to a blue\-collar family, after World War II in the German\-speaking part of Czechoslovakia, his family was [expelled](/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_from_Czechoslovakia "Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia") and ended up in Southern Bavaria, where he grew up. Due to his school records he could go to a humanistic gymnasium, an institution that teaches classical antiquity specifically, and received an education with nine years of Latin and six years of classical Greek but also a good education in math and some physics. There, he had an excellent math/physics teacher and became fascinated with physics. Wagner was educated in a classical humanistic high school (humanistic Gymnasium in Germany).


Why did Wagner's family get expelled after World War II?