Albrecht Schmidt (chemist)

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Albrecht Karl Schmidt (born July 3, 1864 in Grevenbrück , Westphalia , † May 27, 1945 in Remscheid ) was a German chemist .

Life

Albrecht Schmidt, son of the hut Director and Governing Dr. phil. Karl Schmidt (1831-1906) and the Bertha, nee Dieckerhoff (1832-1908), high school graduate at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt , devoted himself to serve his military service as a one-year volunteer studies of chemistry , physics and mineralogy at the Polytechnic Darmstadt , at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the University of Strasbourg , where he acquired the academic degree of Dr. phil.

After working as an assistant at Rudolph Fittig in Strasbourg, Albrecht Schmidt founded the scientific laboratory of the Schering Chemical Factory in Berlin in 1888 , and took over its management. After differences, he moved to Farbwerke Hoechst AG, formerly Meister Lucius & Brüning in Frankfurt am Main , in 1898 . In 1916 Schmidt became a deputy member of the board of Hoechst AG . During the First World War Schmidt dealt with the production of artificial fog, especially for the navy, as well as with the production of gas warfare agents. In 1925 Schmidt was appointed a full board member of IG Farbenindustrie AG , and in 1931 he was retired. In addition, since 1917 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Albrecht Schmidt, who was said to have ambition and a need for recognition , joined the NSDAP in spring 1933 (membership number 1,830,078), and in March 1938 also the SS (membership number 327,474). A voluntary activity in the NS-Gauleitung Hessen-Nassau since 1937 as a consultant for economic and university issues led to his appointment as SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1939, now 75 years old, and in 1944 on his 80th birthday as SS-Brigadführer by Heinrich Himmler . He advised Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger (politician) on filling chemistry chairs in his Gau. Schmidt only partially agreed to National Socialist policy and was particularly alienated by the excesses of violence. Nevertheless, he supported the regime, probably also because of his personal proximity to functionaries of the National Socialists.

Schmidt, who had been married to the Brazilian plantation owner's daughter Carlota Maria, born Brune (1875–1965) since 1895 , with whom he had four children, died in Remscheid in 1945 at the age of 80. The son Helmut Schmidt was a surgeon and professor of surgery. The daughter Irma had been married to Wilhelm Köhler (entrepreneur) since March 1923 .

Honors

Albrecht Schmidt, who stood out in particular for the inventions of the artificial fog mass and the ship fogging, has received several awards, including the honorary doctorate of the Technical University of Braunschweig , the honorary senatorships of the Agricultural University of Berlin and, in 1944, of the Technical University of Darmstadt, the honorary citizenship of the University of Frankfurt am Main, the Goethe Medal for art and science of the city of Frankfurt am Main , the Officer's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order and membership in the German Chemical Society and the Bunsen Society . As early as 1941 he received the skull ring from the SS.

Fonts

  • Influence of butyraldehyde on sodium succinic acid in the presence of acetic acid - anhydride , inaugural dissertation of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strassburg for obtaining the doctorate, Druck Heitz, Strasbourg, 1887.
  • With Kurt Fischbeck: Industrial chemistry in its importance in the worldview and memories of its structure: after 25 lectures at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition, W. de Gruyter & Co., 1943.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Schmid: Freedom and social responsibility - the entrepreneur Wilhelm Köhler from 1897 to 1962; Göttingen, 2016; ISBN 978-3-8353-1978-3 ; P. 156