Edmund Stiasny

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Edmund Stiasny around 1910

Edmund Stiasny (born September 30, 1872 in Vienna , † October 17, 1965 in Helsingborg ) was a university professor for gerbereichemie .

Life

Stiasny was born in Vienna in 1872 as the son of the glove manufacturer Max Stiasny. After training at the Vienna Research Institute for Leather , he studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich from 1895 to 1898 . His teacher was the future Nobel Prize winner Alfred Werner . In 1898 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

He then returned to Vienna as a teacher at the Leather Research Institute. In 1909 he received the title of professor there. On October 1, 1909, he went as an "assistant professor" to the Leather Department at the University of Leeds , where he taught in what was then the first chair for geranium chemistry. In 1913 he became a full professor in Leeds. However, teaching was interrupted in 1914 by the First World War. In 1911 his invention of the first synthetic tanning agents was patented , which made him internationally famous. The industrial exploitation of the patent was carried out by BASF in Ludwigshafen under the name NERADOL D.

Institute for Tanning Chemistry in Darmstadt, 1930s

On April 1, 1920, Stiasny was appointed full professor to the newly established professorship for leather and tanning chemistry. With the support of funds from industry acquired through the Association of Friends of the Technical University of Darmstadt , the Darmstadt Institute was set up according to plans by Stiasny and a test tannery was built by Heinrich Walbe in Schlossgartenstrasse . With this institute, the TH Darmstadt had a unique selling point. The new institute was very successful and attracted numerous students and doctoral candidates to Darmstadt. From 1920 to 1933 over 100 publications were created.

Stiasny was Dean of the Department of Chemistry, Electrochemistry , Gerbereichemie and Pharmacy from 1924–1925 and 1932–1933. After learning in this capacity at a meeting of the small Senate that the government would distribute questionnaires containing questions about the religion and race of the grandparents and parents, Stiasny applied for his early release in April 1933. He justified this with health reasons.

In May 1933, Stiasny accepted an invitation to the USA and in September emigrated to Sweden, his wife's homeland. There he took over the management of the Gerbereichemischen Research Institute in Helsingborg.

Edmund Stiasny was married to Gerda Löthmann. He died in 1965 at the age of 93.

Honors

  • 1954: Völt Ring of Honor
  • 1957: Stiasny Medal.

Works

  • The Institute for Tanning Chemistry , Darmstadt 1925.
  • Tanning chemistry (chrome tanning) , Dresden 1931.
  • Gerbereichemisches Taschenbuch , Leipzig 1929.

Stiasny Medal

On the occasion of Edmund Stiasny's 85th birthday, the Association for Tannery Chemistry and Technology donated the Stiasny Medal. It is awarded for outstanding services in science, teaching and technology. The first winner in 1957 was Edmund Stiasny.

literature

  • Edmund Stiasny , in: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, Stuttgart 2006, p. 891.
  • Melanie Hanel: The Technical University of Darmstadt in the “Third Reich” , dissertation, Darmstadt 2013.
  • Adolf Küntzel : The Institute for Tanning Chemistry . In: One Hundred Years of Technical University Darmstadt. The Technical University of Darmstadt 1836–1936 , Darmstadt 1936, pp. 179–183.
  • Karl Helmer Gustavson (Ed.): Stiasny Festschrift. Edmund Stiasny on his sixty-fifth birthday on September 30, 1937 , Darmstadt 1937.
  • Christa Wolf, Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1977, p. 200.

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personal data
SURNAME Stiasny, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Geranium chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1965
Place of death Helsingborg