Fritz Weigert

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Fritz Weigert (born September 18, 1876 in Berlin ; died April 13, 1947 ) was a German photochemist .

Life

Fritz Weigert studied chemistry in Berlin and Heidelberg from 1895 to 1899 and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1899. Then he was at various research institutions. In 1908 he completed his habilitation in physical chemistry in Berlin and was a private lecturer at the University of Berlin until 1914. From 1914 to 1935 he was a scheduled associate professor for photochemistry and scientific photography at the University of Leipzig .

He was initially not affected by the dismissal of Jewish employees from the University of Leipzig in 1933, as he had been a soldier at the front in World War I, but was then dismissed in 1935, like other Jewish scientists, on the instructions of the Reich Governor of Saxony Martin Mutschmann (officially one threw his pacifist stance and the signing of Gumbel's appeal ) and went to England, where he was director of a cancer research institute in Northwood , Middlesex.

He was a student of Wilhelm Ostwald . He worked on photodichroism , sensitized gas reactions and polarized fluorescence in dye solutions .

Fonts (selection)

  • The chemical effects of light, collection of chemical and chemical-technical lectures 17, Stuttgart: Enke 1911
  • Optical methods in chemistry, Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft 1927

literature

  • Weigert, Fritz , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 380
  • Weigert, Fritz , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1216

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Maier-Metz: Reason for dismissal: Pacifism: Albrecht Götze, the Gumbel case and the Marburg University from 1930 to 1946 . Waxmann 2015, p. 141
personal data
SURNAME Refuses, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photochemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1947