Bernhard Heymann
Bernhard Heymann (born April 23, 1861 in Kamen ; † May 10, 1933 in Leverkusen ) was a German chemist.
Life
Heymann was the son of a businessman, completed a business apprenticeship and, after completing his Abitur, studied chemistry in Munich. He received his doctorate under Wilhelm Koenigs and in 1889 joined the scientific laboratory of the paint works, formerly Friedrich Bayer, in Elberfeld. From 1895 to 1929 he was head of the laboratory. From 1913 the laboratory was in Leverkusen. In 1900 he received power of attorney . From 1912 he was a deputy member of the board of directors of Bayer-Werke and from 1921 he was a member of the IG Farben board of directors from 1926 to 1929, when the Bayer-Werke were merged.
He did his own research on dyes ( thiazines , oxazines , indigo ) and led the expansion of research at Bayer to include crop protection, rubber additives, catalysis, textile auxiliaries and, from 1913, on chemotherapy. Instead of using dyes in chemotherapeutic agents that color tissue, as Paul Ehrlich did, he started with intermediate products. With Oskar Dressel and Richard Kothe he developed the remedy for sleeping sickness Suramin (Germanin) in collaboration with the physician Wilhelm Roehl .
In 1926 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1933 he and Dressel and Kothe received the Adolf von Baeyer commemorative coin for the Suramin development .
In 1923 he received an honorary doctorate in medicine in Bonn and in 1928 an honorary doctorate as an engineer in Dresden.
A street in Leverkusen is named after him.
He married Johanna Ransohoff in Hamm in 1901, with whom he had 2 sons and a daughter. His son Hans Heymann (* 1915) was a professor of organic chemistry.
Web links
- Siegfried Petersen: Heymann, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 87 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ tombstone
- ↑ Kordula Kühlem (ed.), Carl Duisberg (1861-1935), Letters of an Industrialist, Oldenbourg 2012, p. 162
- ^ Member entry by Bernhard Heymann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 14, 2016.
- ↑ Description Heymannstr. in the Leverkusen street directory
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heymann, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Came |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1933 |
| Place of death | Leverkusen |