August Winkel

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August Winkel (born September 20, 1902 in Horn , † January 5, 1968 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German chemist and aerosol expert.

Life

After graduating from high school in Detmold and studying chemistry at the universities of Göttingen and Graz, August Winkel received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1930. With his doctoral supervisor Gerhart Jander , with whom he had previously been a private assistant for three years, he moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in 1933 . In 1935 he became head of the institute's inorganic and colloid chemistry department. In addition to his department head at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Winkel was appointed extraordinary professor of chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin in 1939. His main focus was on chemical warfare agents . After the Second World War , Winkel was laboratory manager at Ahlmann-Carlshütte for several years . In April 1953 he became head of the dust research institute of the main association of industrial trade associations . The focus of work was, among other things, dust control at the workplace and the control of aerosols . At the same time, he was the chief editor of the magazine “ Staub - Reinhaltung der Luft” . At the end of 1967 he retired.

Winkel joined the NSDAP on February 1, 1931 , and on October 1, 1932 he also became a member of the SS , where he was promoted to Obersturmführer until 1939 . He was also a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association , the National Socialist People's Welfare and the Reich Air Protection Association . After the war he was a member of the advisory boards of the VDI dust technology specialist group and of the Air Quality Commission . He was active in various working groups of the European Coal and Steel Community and in an advisory capacity for the German Research Foundation .

Publications (selection)

  • August Winkel: About methods that serve to elucidate aggregation processes in solutions of amphoteric oxide hydrates - their application to solutions of ferric salts . Dissertation. 1931.
  • August Winkel, Gerhart Jander: Suspended matter in gases - aerosols . Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1934.
  • August Winkel, Erwin Walter: Dust in the workplace . Beuth Verlag, Berlin 1964.

literature

  • E. Wickenhagen: Professor Dr. phil. August Winkel 65 years . In: Dust - keeping the air clean . tape 27 , no. 9 , September 1967, p. 428 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b August Winkel. In: Catalogus Professorum. TU Berlin, accessed on July 4, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b c Florian Schmaltz: Warfare agent research in National Socialism: On the cooperation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, the military and industry . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3169-3 , p. 107 .
  3. ^ CN Davies: Professor Dr. phil. August Winkel . In: Annals of Occupational Hygiene . tape 11 , 1968, p. 259 .
  4. ↑ Professor Dr. phil. August Winkel † . In: Tonindustrie-Zeitung and Keramik Rundschau . tape 92 , 1968, pp. 40 .
personal data
SURNAME Winkel, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and aerosol expert
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH horn
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1968
Place of death bad Godesberg