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Friedrich Robert Alfred Rieche (born April 28, 1902 in Dortmund ; † November 6, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German chemist in large-scale industry and professor of technical chemistry at the universities in Leipzig , Halle (Saale) , Jena and Berlin as well as at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW).

life and work

Alfred Rieche was the son of the chemist Karl Louis Berthold Alfred Rieche (1868–1929) and his wife Margarete Julie Fanny (Grete) Rieche, nee. Baum (1880-1904). In 1903 the family moved from Dortmund to Bernburg (Saale) , where his father founded his own pharmaceutical factory. At his father's request, after three years of pre-school, he first attended the Bernburg humanistic grammar school, but then switched to the Karls-Realgymnasium . From 1921 he studied chemistry at the University of Greifswald and was awarded a doctorate in 1925 as an academic student of Rudolf Pummerer at the University of Erlangen with a thesis on "On monovalent oxygen". phil. PhD .

In 1933 he switched to large-scale chemical industry at IG Farben in Wolfen . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In the same year he also became an adjunct professor at the University of Leipzig . In 1938 he was appointed scientific director of the IG Farben factory in Wolfen.

After the Second World War he worked in the USSR until 1951 , where he set up a factory for dye intermediates. He then returned to Wolfen and at the same time held a teaching position at the University of Halle (Saale) . From 1952 to 1967 he took a chair and became director of the Institute for Technical Chemistry at the University of Jena , from 1954 to 1968 he was the founding director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , from 1960 he also worked in the field of technical Chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

His field of work was initially particularly the chemistry of peroxides and radicals , later also technical chemistry in the field of natural raw materials in the context of the self-sufficiency efforts of the National Socialist rulers. He was able to continue this research area successfully and internationally recognized under the conditions of the GDR .

His father's pharmaceutical factory “Dr. A. Rieche & Co. GmbH ”became known through the product“ Peptoman Rieche ”and was continued in Bernburg by his younger brother, the pharmacist Walter Rieche , from 1929 after the unexpected death of his father .

Memberships

Rieche became a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1956 and a full member in 1959 . In 1959 he was also elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy in Halle (Saale) . Since 1964 he was a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Honors (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 496.
  2. Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the assistance of Heinz Cassenbaum: Lexicon of important chemists , Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1988, pp. 363–364, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
  3. ^ Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organische Chemie , Verlag Chemie Weinheim, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 507, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 .
  4. Honored personalities of the GDR , In: Neues Deutschland , June 24, 1962, pp. 1–2.