Franz Fehér

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Franz Fehér (born January 22, 1903 in Szenttamás , Austria-Hungary , † February 16, 1991 ) was a Hungarian-German chemist who worked in the field of non-metal chemistry .

Life

Franz Fehér was born in Szenttamás, the Serbian town of Srbobran since 1918 , as the son of a Hungarian and a Hungarian-German . After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Verbász , he studied chemistry at the technical universities of Hanover and Stuttgart , where he received his diploma in 1925. For financial reasons, he then returned to his hometown for two years, where he taught mathematics, physics and chemistry at an upper secondary school. He then returned to the TH Stuttgart and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. In 1929 with Arthur Simon with the thesis "Contributions to the knowledge of manganese dioxide hydrates and manganese oxides" . PhD.

Fehér married Magdalena Fischer in 1931, whom he had met as a student while working as a laboratory assistant and who also came from a Danube Swabian family. After further assistant positions in Stuttgart, he followed his doctoral supervisor Simon to the TH Dresden in 1932 , where he became a regular assistant. There he completed his habilitation in 1938 with the text " Raman spectroscopic and X-ray examinations of 100% hydro-, deuterium and alkali peroxides" and received a teaching license a short time later . After he had accepted German citizenship in 1931, Fehér was drafted several times between 1935 and 1939 for exercises in the Wehrmacht and was involved in the attack on Poland at the beginning of the Second World War . As part of Werner Osenberg's plans , he was classified as “indispensable”, brought back from the front and continued teaching at the TH Dresden.

In 1942, Fehér accepted an invitation from Nobel Prize winner Adolf Windaus to the University of Göttingen , where he initially headed the Inorganic Chemistry Department at the Chemical Institute as a senior assistant and became an adjunct professor from 1944. In 1949 Fehér was appointed associate professor for inorganic and analytical chemistry at the University of Cologne (at the request of Kurt Alder ) and thus took over the management of a chair at the Institute of Chemistry, the equipment of which had been largely destroyed in the Second World War. In 1958 he became deputy head of the Chemical Institute. After he had refused a call to the University of Hamburg , he became a full professor and director of the newly created, independent Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Cologne in 1961. In 1971 he retired.

In 1962 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fehér dealt with acyclic sulfur compounds , using the Raman spectroscopy learned during his time in Dresden. These included polysulfanes , alkali metal polysulfides , halogen sulfanes, aryl and alkyl sulfanes. From the 1960s and after his retirement, he dealt with higher silanes and Germanic peoples . In doing so, he continued the work of Alfred Stock and, in contrast to Stock's view, was able to demonstrate that the higher silanes form branched isomers and thus resemble the alkanes more than expected.

Marianne Baudler (professor in Cologne), Karl-Heinz Linke (1933–1977 professor in Cologne) and Heinz Dieter Lutz (from 1972 professor in Siegen) were among his post-doctoral students in Cologne. Other students were Hans Joachim Berthold (University of Hanover) and Günter Winkhaus (University of Mainz).

literature

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of manganese dioxide hydrates and manganese oxides . Verl. Chemie, Berlin 1932.
  • Raman spectroscopic and X-ray examinations of 100% hydro-, deuterium and alkali peroxides . Habilitation thesis, Dresden University of Technology, 1938.
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic investigations in the field of the preparative chemistry of higher silanes . Research reports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia No. 2545, Section Chemistry, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1976.
  • Molecular spectroscopic investigations in the field of silanes and heterocyclic sulfanes . Research reports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia No. 2632, Department of Physics / Chemistry / Biology, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1977.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical. University of Cologne, Department of Chemistry. January 3, 2013, accessed January 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Franz Fehér (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Fehér, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Szenttamás , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1991