Alfred Roedig

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Alfred Roedig (born October 2, 1910 in Düsseldorf , † July 27, 1983 in Würzburg ) was a German chemist .

He studied botany and zoology , later chemistry , at the universities of Bonn and Freiburg im Breisgau . He did his doctorate in 1939 at the University of Würzburg under Franz Gottwalt Fischer with a biochemical thesis on " Fumaric acid hydrogenating enzymes ".

After brief activities at the Chem.-techn. Reichsanstalt Berlin and Technische Hochschule Stuttgart , he completed his habilitation in 1950 in Würzburg, where he was already working as a scientific assistant at the Chemical Institute (then at Röntgenring 11) in 1948. From 1956 to May 1980 he was the successor of Franz Gottwalt Fischer as the chair of organic chemistry at the University of Würzburg . In 1960, a second chair was established for the planned expansion “Am Hubland”. Siegfried Hünig held the first chair .

His research areas included polyhalogenated unsaturated hydrocarbons and their reactivities, and his results found their way into renowned textbooks on organic chemistry. Shortly after his retirement, he died of cancer.

Known students

Predecessor at the chemical institute in Würzburg

Location of the chemical institutes in Würzburg
  • Joseph von Scherer (1842–1869 †; Juliusspital, from 1867 new chemical institute in Maxstrasse 4)
  • Adolph Strecker (1869–1871 †; Chemical Institute in Maxstrasse 4)
  • Johannes Wislicenus (1872–1885; Chemical Institute in Maxstrasse 4)
  • Emil Fischer (1885–1892; Chemical Institute at Maxstrasse 4)
  • Arthur Hantzsch (1893–1903; Chemical Institute at Maxstrasse 4, from 1896 new Chem. Inst. At Pleicher Ring 11)
  • Julius Tafel [1903–1910; Chemisches Institut am Röntgenring 11 ( renamed street name from 1909 )]
  • Eduard Buchner (1911–1917 †; Chemical Institute at Röntgenring 11)
  • Otto Dimroth (1918–1937, 1940 †; Chemical Institute at Röntgenring 11)
  • Franz Gottwalt Fischer (1938–1956, 1960 †; Chemical Institute at Röntgenring 11)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst G. Kliemann, Stephen S. Taylor: Who's who in Germany. Intercontinental Book and Pub., 1956, p. 1215.
  2. ^ Würzburg today: magazine for culture and economy. Issues 37–40, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, 1984, p. 108.
  3. ↑ Alfred Roedig: To the knowledge of the fumaric acid hydrogenating enzymes . Dissertation . Würzburg, 1939, DNB  571094635 .
  4. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 18.
  5. ↑ Chair II Organic Chemistry at Hubland: Waldemar Adam (1980–2002) ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www-organik.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
  6. ↑ Klaus Koschel. and Gerhard Sauer. In: On the history of the Chemical Institute of the University of Würzburg. Self-published by the University of Würzburg, 1968, p. 99f.
personal data
SURNAME Roedig, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1983
Place of death Wurzburg