Bruno Werdelmann
Bruno Wilhelm Werdelmann (born August 14, 1920 in Ratingen ; † September 12, 2010 ) was a personally liable partner at Henkel , a German university professor and founder .
Life
Werdelmann studied chemistry at the universities of Munich and Bonn. After receiving his doctorate in 1948, he first worked at Dreiring-Werke KG in Krefeld . After it was taken over by the Henkel Group in the same year, he was entrusted with the management of the organic operations of Henkel & Cie GmbH in Düsseldorf Holthausen in 1959 . He was a long-time member of the overall management of Henkel & Cie GmbH and was appointed to the central management in 1969. Six years later, as managing director of the holding company, he was given responsibility for research and development, production and engineering worldwide. From 1975 to 1984 Bruno Werdelmann was personally liable, managing partner of Henkel KGaA. In 1984 he retired.
From 1980 onwards, in parallel to his position on the board, he was initially a lecturer and then an honorary professor in the chemistry department at the University of Essen . After his retirement he worked for over ten years as a visiting professor in Southeast Asia with a focus on Bangkok , Chiang Mai and Kuala Lumpur .
In 1984 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in particular for his national and international environmental protection activities. Among other things, many years of research have succeeded in developing a substitute for phosphate in detergents.
For his scientific achievements and his extraordinary commitment in Southeast Asia, Bruno Werdelmann was honored with the Normann Medal of the German Society for Fat Science in 1973, with the Medal of Honor from the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf in 1985 , and in 1993 with the honorary doctorate awarded by King Bhumibol Chiang Mai University , Thailand.
Bruno Werdelmann is committed to cooperation, scientific and cultural exchange between Europe and Asia. For many years he was a member of the German-Thai Society in Bonn, the Siam Society in Bangkok and the German-Japanese Society in Düsseldorf.
In 1990 he founded the “Professor Werdelmann Foundation”, which has set itself the task of financially promoting young scientists in the field of chemistry and supporting development and research projects. He was also chairman of the board of trustees of the Professor Werdelmann Foundation in Essen and honorary chairman of the Dr. Bruno Wedelmann Foundation at Chiang Mai University.
In addition to Southeast Asian art, Bruno Werdelmann has also been passionately collecting netsuke figures since the late 1960s. In the course of the decades, a collection of over 1,100 exhibits was created, which he bequeathed to the museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf.
literature
Obituary in the FAZ from September 18, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werdelmann, Bruno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werdelmann, Bruno Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German personally liable partner at Henkel, university professor and founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 2010 |