Adolph Moritz List

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Adolph Moritz List (born November 12, 1861 in Olchowatka , Voronezh Governorate ; † June 17, 1938 in Magdeburg ) was a German chemist.

Life

Adolph Moritz List was born as the son of Adolph List (1823–1885), a German technician who built the first sugar factory in Russia, and Flora List, a native of Fass. He had five siblings and his uncle was the entrepreneur Gustav List .

Adolph Moritz List studied chemistry and agricultural sciences in Leipzig and received his doctorate in May 1885. phil. with the work investigations into the lower fungi occurring in and on the body of healthy sheep .

In 1886 he entered into the partnership agreement with Constantin Fahlberg as a general partner for his late father, establishing the world's first saccharin factory, the limited partnership Fahlberg, List & Co. , which started production on March 9, 1887 in Salbke near Magdeburg. After being converted into a stock corporation, he was a member of the supervisory board from 1900 to 1919, then chairman of the board of directors until the end of 1927 and then switched back to the supervisory board. In 1937 there were anti-Semitic attacks against List. The Fahlberg List small shareholder, Otto Emersleben, who lives in Berlin-Zehlendorf, accused List and his wife of non-Aryan descent. In fact, Fahlberg-List AG announced that List's non-aristocracy had been established. List, who had described himself as an Aryan and whose children had belonged to the NSDAP until then , had to resign.

List was also active in the potash industry. In 1895 he joined the mining company Gott mit uns II (later Burbach-Kaliwerke AG ) founded by Gerhard Korte and was involved in many of Korte's companies as deputy chairman of the supervisory board.

As an art collector, he owned a collection of valuable porcelain and handicraft items. He lived at Augustastraße 4 , today's Hegelstraße in Magdeburg.

Works

  • Saccharine: benzoic acid sulfinide; Dr. Fahlberg's new coal tar sweetener; a compilation of the results obtained since its publication on the basis of scientific research by the first authorities and practical experience of important experts ; 1893

literature

  • Horst-Günther Heinicke: List, Adolf (Adolph) Moritz. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 428.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/mbl/Biografien/1572.htm
  2. ↑ Herbert Rasenberger , From the sweet beginning to the bitter end . dr. ziethen verlag Oschersleben 2009, ISBN 978-3-938380-06-2 ; Page 51 f.
  3. ^ Magdeburg address book 1916, Part I, page 210
personal data
SURNAME List, Adolph Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Olkhovatka , Voronezh Governorate
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1938
Place of death Magdeburg