530
DOCS.
508,
509 APRIL
1918
508. From
Hugo
A.
Kruss
Berlin W.
8,
15 April 1918
To
the
Hon. Prof.
Einstein, Berlin, 5
Haberland
Street.
Esteemed
Professor,
I
am
deeply sorry
not to be able
to
give
you
a more
favorable
response
to
your
inquiry.[1]
The
regulation on
widow’s
pensions
is
grounded
on
general
le-
gal
foundations[2] from which
exceptions
cannot
be made in
individual
cases
by
special agreement.
Pursuant
to
it,
the
widow’s
pension
can
be
paid
out
for dis-
bursement
only
to
the
current lawful
widow;
a
transferral
is
explicitly
ruled out
pursuant
to
the
law.
Accordingly,
I
can
think
of
a
settlement
only
in
the
form
of
your
taking out
a
life
insurance
policy
to the benefit of
your
first
spouse,
in
the
case
of
your
death,[3]
and in
the
amount
of
the
lawful
widow’s
pension.
In
this
way,
your
first
spouse
would be
provided
with
the
full
equivalent
of
a
state
widow’s
pension.
What annual
premium
payments
will
be
required
for
this
I
cannot
estimate,
yet
it
does not
seem
out
of
the
question
to
me
that the
Minister[4]
would be
prepared
to
help you,
in
case
you
were
to
regard
it
as
too
great
a
burden
on
your
annual
outlay.
Perhaps
you
can
familiarize
yourself
more
closely
about the
options
of such
an
insurance and
then
let
me
know
more
about
it.
I
shall be
glad
to
assist
you
in
this
matter,
as
far
as
it
lies
in
my power.
With all due
respect, yours very truly,
Kruss.
509.
From Hermann
Weyl
Zurich
(20
Schmelzberg
St.),
15 April
1918
Esteemed
Colleague,
Both
your
postcards,[1]
for which
I
thank
you
most
warmly,
likewise for
the
presentation
of
my
note[2]
before
the
Berlin
Academy,
unfortunately
only
reached
me
here
upon my
return
to Zurich via
Breslau.[3] I
am
sorry
that
now
you
probably
have
had
to draw
up
the
abstract.[4]
I
had
great
reservations
about
sending
you
the
note in
its
current
state,
which I
had
already
had
lying
around
for
3 weeks,
and would
have liked to have carried
the
physical consequences
a
bit further
beforehand.
But
I
was so
occupied
at
that
moment and
the
calculations to be
performed
are so
extensive
that
I
decided
upon
such
a provisional
communication