Max Dehn, un mathématicien aux préoccupations universelles

This is a free summary of a much longer article published in german in "Forschung Frankfurt". This article presents facts concerning the works of Max Dehn and the history of Frankfurt University. <br />E. Hellinger, R. Moufang, C. L. Siegel, A. Weil, P. Epstein, W. Hartner are named among others. Of course these texts are centered around the critical period 1933-1941. Comments, references, and acknowledgements have been added by the translator, which does not claim any competence. In fact he attempted this translation mainly for the sake of human rights enforcement. <br />Please look at web pages at uni-frankfurt.de and propose translations into other languages to professors Wolfart et al !