Bruno Drews

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Bruno Karl Lebrecht Drews (born July 16, 1898 in Bütow , † April 26, 1969 in Locarno ) was a German fermentation scientist and university professor .

Life

Drews spent childhood and youth in Szczecin , where he successfully graduated from the humanistic high school. He suffered serious injuries during the First World War. From 1919 to 1922 he studied at the University of Berlin . In 1922 he received his doctorate under Arthur Binz and worked as his assistant for three years. In 1925 he got a job at the institute for fermentation trade and starch production , where he worked in research and consulting in particular at the experimental and teaching institute for alcohol production . A few years later he became head of the Research Institute for Distillery Technology and the Research Institute for Baker's Yeast Issues.

After completing his habilitation in 1936, he was given a lectureship in "fermentation technology"; from 1939 he was a private lecturer, from 1943 an extraordinary professor and from 1946 a full professor at the chair for fermentation trade at the University of Berlin and scientific director of the institute for fermentation trade as well as scientific director of the experimental and teaching institute for brewing ; from 1951 he was a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin . In March 1968 he retired.

Drews died of a heart attack while on a recreational trip.

The main focus of his work was the technological basics of the fermentation industry, in particular yeast and spirits production .

Fonts

  • The practice of distillery operations on a scientific basis. Berlin 1951
  • The barley grinding meal and its processing on alcohol. Berlin 1948
  • The processing of molasses in potato and grain distilleries. Berlin 1948
  • Sulphurous acid as an antiseptic in the alcohol distillery. Berlin 1948
  • The importance of the agricultural potato distillery. Berlin 1947
  • The potato pulp and its appropriate feeding. Berlin 1947
  • The processing of molasses without mashing other substances containing sugar or starch in potato and grain distilleries. Berlin 1947
  • About the processing of waste products from corn grinding, especially corn husk bran on alcohol. Berlin 1947
  • The value and importance of the grain pulp. Berlin 1947
  • The 48-hour fermentation in agricultural Bremen farms. Berlin 1946
  • To the knowledge of hydrosulfamine derivatives. Berlin, Phil. Diss., 1922

Honors

  • 1957: Golden Delbrück Memorial Medal
  • 1962: Honorary doctorate from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna
  • 1964: Honorary member of the German Brewmaster and Maltmaster Association
  • 1967: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1968: Honorary membership of the VLB

literature

  • JC Poggendorff: Biographical-literary concise dictionary of the exact natural sciences (Volume 7a, Part 1 ff.). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1956 ff.
  • K. Silberstein, HG Schulze Berndt: Prof. Dr. hc Dr. Bruno Drews 70 years old on July 16, 1968. In: The spirits industry of July 10, 1968

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Spirits Industry, May 1, 1969
  2. ↑ The Spirits Industry, May 2, 1969
  3. ↑ The Spirits Industry, August 1st, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Drews, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drews, Bruno Karl Lebrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Butow
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1969
Place of death Locarno