Carl Gustav Schwalbe

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Carl Gustav Schwalbe (born October 25, 1871 in Hottingen , † June 16, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a university lecturer for cellulose chemistry.

Life

Carl Gustav Schwalbe was born in October 1871 in Hottingen, Switzerland, as the son of the physician Dr. Carl Friedrich Gottlieb Schwalbe (born January 17, 1838 in Quedlinburg, † June 14, 1903 in Los Angeles) and his wife Marie Niederstein. He attended schools in Berlin and Magdeburg. After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry from 1892 at the University of Strasbourg and from 1893 to 1896 at the University of Leipzig . From 1894 he was an assistant at the University's Chemical Institute and supported Johannes Wislicenus , who had been teaching in Leipzig since 1885. In 1896 he received his doctorate in Leipzig and then moved to the Baden aniline and soda factory in Ludwigshafen. In 1902 he was habilitated at the TH Darmstadt with a thesis on fiber and paint and was appointed as a private lecturer. In the same year he switched to the Institute for Organic Chemistry in Darmstadt as an assistant and worked closely with Hermann Finger . Two years later he was given responsibility for chemical training for the pulp and paper students. In 1907 Schwalbe was appointed associate professor of chemistry. He had a teaching position in textile chemistry, organic chemistry and cellulose chemistry for students of the paper industry.

On his initiative, the Institute for Cellulose Chemistry at the TH Darmstadt was founded in 1908. Initially, the institute had no rooms of its own, but was located on the ground floor of the organic institute on the corner of Hochschulstrasse and Schlossgartenstrasse.

From 1909 to 1912 Schwalbe was also managing director of the Association of Pulp and Paper Chemists, which had been founded a few years earlier.

In the spring of 1912 he received a call to a full professor for chemistry and mineralogy at the royal Prussian forest academy in Eberswalde . Here he founded u. a. a research station for wood and pulp chemistry, the wood research institute of the Eberswalde Forestry University. Carl Gustav Schwalbe stayed in Eberswalde for over 20 years and turned down several offers at other universities. In 1929 he was rector of the university.

In addition to the position of professor at the Forest Academy Eberswalde, Schwalbe held an honorary professorship at the Technical University of Berlin from 1921.

In the spring of 1934 Schwalbe retired for health reasons. He lived in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and died four years later at the age of 66 in Frankfurt am Main. He was married to Elisabeth Henriette Nauen since 1899. The marriage later ended in divorce.

Honors

  • Honorary membership in the Swedish and German pulp and paper engineers and chemists' association.

Publications

Carl Gustav Schwalbe has a large number of publications and numerous patents on various issues and processes in paper and cellulose chemistry.

  • 1911: The chemistry of cellulose with special consideration of the textile and cellulose industries, Berlin.
  • 1919: The chemical plant control in the pulp and paper industry and other pulp processing industries, Berlin.
  • 1938: The chemistry of woods, Berlin.

literature

  • One hundred years of Darmstadt University of Technology. The Technical University of Darmstadt 1836-1936, Darmstadt 1936.
  • Christa Wolf and Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1977, p. 190.

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personal data
SURNAME Schwalbe, Carl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hottingen
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1938
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe