Arnd Iloff

Arnd Iloff (born June 2, 1910 in Charlottenburg ; † April 8, 2001 in Jüterbog ) was a German industrial chemist ( polymer chemistry ). He is considered one of the pioneers in industrial PVC production in Germany.

Iloff studied chemistry in Leipzig from 1929, received his doctorate in 1934 under Burkhardt Helferich (dissertation: On the representation of phenol glycosides of 2-bromoglucose, 2-deoxyglucose, N-acetylglucosamine, glucosamine and their cleavage by emulsin ) and worked afterwards from 1935 at IG Farben in Bitterfeld . There he made a career through inventions related to PVC production and headed PVC production in Bitterfeld until the end of the war. He was a member of the NSDAP . During the Second World War he was indispensable and was involved in setting up a PVC production facility in Italy, at the end of the war he was back in Saxony-Anhalt. From 1946 to 1951 he was a specialist in the Soviet Union in Orjechowo-Sujewo near Moscow and Dzerzhinsk near Gorky , also in PVC research. From 1952 he was department head at the Buna plant in Schkopau . In 1975 he retired and taught at the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg .

He was involved in the development of Igelit and its production. It was produced in Bitterfeld from 1938 and later under a different name in the GDR (e.g. for shoes and raincoats).

In 1960 Iloff received the GDR National Prize, Second Class for Science and Technology.

He had been married since 1935.

Fonts

• with Georg Wick: New processing methods for Igelit PCU, in: Kunststoffe, Volume 32, May 1942

literature

• H.-J. Hörig: Arndt Iloff - a pioneer in PVC production , Merseburg Contributions to the History of the Chemical Industry in Central Germany, 3/1997

Web links

• Chemistry friends Erkner
• Biography of his son Michael Iloff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 7, 1960 p. 4