Fritz Micheel

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Fritz Micheel (born July 3, 1900 in Strasburg (Uckermark) , † June 8, 1982 in Münster ) was a German chemist.

In 1918 Micheel took a secondary school diploma in Berlin. After a few months of military service, he studied chemistry in Berlin . From 1924 to 1928 he was assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry at Kurt Hess , in which he in 1924 with the work carbinols phenyl-ethynyl-above Halochromieerscheinungen for his doctorate . He then studied at the University of Göttingen until his habilitation in 1931. He taught there until 1936 before he was appointed to the University of Münster . From 1946 to 1968 he was professor of organic chemistry in Münster and carried out the reconstruction at a central point.

His specialty was the chemistry of carbohydrates . He researched sugar chemistry, vitamin C , snake poisons and the formation of coal .

In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . After 1945 he was a member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .

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  1. Life data, publications and academic family tree of Fritz Micheel at academictree.org, accessed on January 3, 2019.