Carl Heinrich Krauch

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Carl Heinrich Krauch (born September 14, 1931 in Heidelberg ; † August 15, 2004 in Namibia ) was a German chemist and industry manager.

Life

Carl Heinrich Krauch is the son of Carl Krauch and grandchildren of senior Carl Krauch . He studied chemistry, did his doctorate with Günther Otto Schenck and submitted his dissertation on October 18, 1961 to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Göttingen with the title New Acceptor Systems for Photosensitized O 2 Transfer . In this he examined sulfides, sulfoxides, alcoholates and enediolates of the ascorbic acid type as new acceptors.

From 1958 to 1967 he was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr and held a teaching position at the University of Cologne . He completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz and accepted a professorship there in 1971.

Carl Heinrich Krauch then continued his career at BASF and as head of research and development in the management of Henkel KGaA in industry. From 1980 to 1993 he was CEO of Chemische Werke Hüls AG and member of the board of VEBA AG , Düsseldorf.

Other functions were:

Private

His older brother was the systems analyst and concept artist Helmut Krauch .

Carl Heinrich Krauch lived for the last 13 years of his life together with his partner Renate von Katte in Namibia. He had taken over a farm there in Okondura South near Karibib for his old age after he had bequeathed the farm in the Odenwald, which his father had inherited, to his eldest son. At the age of 72, Krauch died in a traffic accident in Namibia.

Honors

literature

  • Who is who? The German Who's Who . XXV. Edition 1986/87. Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, Lübeck 1986, p. 738.
  • Carl Heinrich Krauch , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 15/1994 of April 4, 1994, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  • Obituary by Wolfgang Fritsche, in: Nachrichten aus der Chemie , 52 (November 2004), p. 1170.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation in the catalog of the German National Library.
  2. ↑ 2001 yearbook of the Max Planck Society ( Memento of May 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 201 kB).
  3. ↑ President of the German Chemical Society since 1949
  4. ↑ Activity report of the GDCh 2004 .
  5. ↑ Comfortable mattresses for the children of the Ebenhaes student home, Allgemeine Zeitung Namibia of March 10, 2005 ( Memento of the original of February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.az.com.na
  6. ↑ Awards ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. DGF website, accessed on August 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgfett.de
personal data
SURNAME Krauch, Carl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and industrial manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2004
Place of death Namibia