Bernhard Lepsius

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Bernhard Lepsius (born February 3, 1854 in Berlin ; † October 7, 1934 there ) was a German chemist and director of the chemical factory in Griesheim .

Bernhard Lepsius was born in Berlin in 1854 as the son of the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius and the grandson of Lili Parthey . After studying chemistry in Strasbourg and doing his doctorate in Göttingen in 1880 with Hans Huebner , he was assistant to August Wilhelm Hofmann in Berlin. During his time in Berlin in 1877 he became a member of the Academic Liedertafel Berlin in the Sondershäuser Association . In 1881 Lepsius took over the lectureship at the Physikalischer Verein in Frankfurt am Main .

In 1891 Lepsius joined the chemical factory Griesheim (CFG) in Griesheim am Main as technical sub-director and head of the aniline factory . Lepsius was then technical director and alternately chairman of the board of the CFG, which called itself Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron since 1898 . 1906–1910 he was plant manager at Naphtolchemie Offenburg . In the company he was responsible for the organic chemistry department as well as for personnel and social issues.

From 1906 to 1909 Lepsius was chairman of the "Association for the Protection of the Interests of the German Chemical Industry". After leaving CFGE in 1910, he became professor for technical chemistry at the Royal Technical University of Charlottenburg . From 1912 to 1927 Lepsius was Secretary General of the German Chemical Society . He received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden .

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Individual evidence

  1. Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 6.
  2. ^ Helmut Maier: Chemists in the "Third Reich": The German Chemical Society and the Association of German Chemists in the Nazi regime . John Wiley & Sons, 2015, pp. 27 ( limited preview in Google Book search). [1]
  3. Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. Technical University of Dresden, accessed on February 4, 2015 .