Education
Schönhardt studied at the University of Stuttgart, and went on to do his graduate studies at the University of Tübingen, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in 1920 for a thesis on Schottky groups under the supervision of Ludwig Maurer.
Schönhardt studied at the University of Stuttgart, and went on to do his graduate studies at the University of Tübingen, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in 1920 for a thesis on Schottky groups under the supervision of Ludwig Maurer.
In the 1930s, he was the Dozentenführer (Nazi political leader of the faculty) at Tübingen, and was responsible for denouncing fellow Tübingen mathematician Erich Kamke for having married a Jewish woman. He moved back to the University of Stuttgart in 1936 and was rector there from 1939–1942. He was a permanent editor of the journal Deutsche Mathematik.
