Chemical Society of the GDR
The Chemical Society of the GDR (partly CG for short ) was founded on May 11, 1953, promoted chemistry in the German Democratic Republic and was the specialist organization for chemists from research, teaching and practice.
The society worked closely with the state institutions, the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , the Chamber of Technology and companies in the chemical industry, it organized scientific conferences and colloquia. She also maintained contact with analogous organizations and institutions outside of the GDR. Communication with the members took place, among other things, via the monthly "Mitteilungsblatt der Chemischen Gesellschaft der DDR" (Mitteilungsblatt der Chemischen Gesellschaft der DDR) "and the irregularly appearing" Conference Reports of the Chemischen Gesellschaft der DDR ". Together with the GDCh, the CG published the Chemische Zentralblatt , a formerly powerful German-speaking competitor of the Chemical Abstracts of the American Chemical Society . Important journals were published on behalf of CG:
The lists of award winners awarded by the CG ( August Kekulé Medal , Clemens Winkler Medal and Friedrich Wöhler Prize ) include many respected scientists. After 1967 - with one exception - GDR chemists no longer had a chance to receive awards from the West German GDCh.
After the reunification, the CG existed for a short time as a chemical society , but then dissolved itself through the decision of the members. Many members of the CG became personal members of the GDCh from 1991 onwards. In this respect, there is a personal connection to this earlier scientific society, similar to during the founding phase of the GDCh, whose new members were mostly also members of the older organizations Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft (DChG, founded 1867) and VDCh .
Chairwoman of the Chemical Society of the German Democratic Republic
- 1953–1955 Erich Thilo
- 1955–1957 Johannes Nelles
- 1957–1959 Wolfgang Langenbeck
- 1959–1961 Kurt Meyer
- 1961–1963 Friedrich Wolf
- 1965–1967 Günther Drefahl
- 1967–1969 Hans Singer
- 1969–1975 Hans-Joachim Bittrich
- 1975–1980 Manfred Rätzsch
- 1980–1985 Burkart Philipp
- 1985–1988 Egon Fanghänel
- 1989–1990 Reinhard Nitzsche
Individual evidence
- ^ Brockhaus ABC Chemie , VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig 1965, p. 229.
- ^ Nelles, Johannes at deutsche-biographie.de
- ↑ Contemporary witnesses presented - One of the fathers of the 'Polymir' - Professor Dr. Manfred RÄTZSCH