Carl Kolbe (chemist)

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Carl Wilhelm Eduard Kolbe (born September 27, 1855 in Marburg , † September 8, 1909 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German chemist and industrialist .

Live and act

Kolbe was born in Marburg in 1855 as the eldest son of chemistry professor Hermann Kolbe . He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig until 1875 and then studied chemistry with his father at the University of Leipzig and with Rudolph Fittig at the University of Strasbourg . In 1882 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a technical chemist in the Kalle & Co. chemical factory in Biebrich .

Chemical factory v. Heyden, 1898

In 1884 Carl Kolbe took over the management of the salicylic acid factory Dr. F. v. Heyden in Radebeul near Dresden, in which his father was a partner through the contribution of his Kolbe synthesis . The job involved a salary of 9,000 thalers, as his father wrote in his last letter on November 24, 1884, the day before his death. A year later, in 1885, Carl Kolbe took over the company together with the businessman Carl Rentsch . The factory was the first in the world to produce pharmaceuticals on an industrial scale ( salicylic acid and derivatives such as acetylsalicylic acid ). The previous owner and founder, the chemist Friedrich von Heyden , remained associated with the company as chairman of the supervisory board until 1919. Kolbe operated the salicylic acid factory Dr. F. v. Heyden's successor to a GmbH in 1896 and a stock corporation in 1899 . Until 1907 he remained general director of the chemical factory v. Heyden Aktiengesellschaft . In 1907, the chemist Richard Seifert became general director and successor to Kolbe in the chemical factory.

Villa Kolbe in Radebeul, 1897

From 1892 lived in a Kolbe for him by Berlin architect Otto March designed and among others, the builders Brothers Ziller built neo -Villa in Zinzendorfstraße 16 in Radebeul. Between 1891 and 1902 he was a councilor . He promoted the welfare, among other things through the establishment of the v. Heyden Foundation .

Kolbe was the holder of the title of Hofrat . A street in Radebeul has been named after him since 1935. Kolbe's wife Emilie has been honored since 1899 by a Dresdner Straße on the city border between Kaditz and Radebeul ( Emilienstraße ).

His daughter Johanna was married to the chemist Ernst von Meyer .

Fonts (selection)

  • About the bromine addition products of crotonic acids and methacrylic acid. In: Journal für Praktische Chemie 25 (1882), 369-398. doi : 10.1002 / prac.18820250140 (= also dissertation, University of Strasbourg 1882)

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Alan J. Rocke: The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry. University of California Press, Berkeley 1993. ( read here as an active e-book )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Sachse , Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 60.
  2. ^ Rocke, Alan J. The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5g500723/, note 106
personal data
SURNAME Kolbe, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolbe, Carl Wilhelm Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1909
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau