Egbert von Heyden
Egbert Ernst Georg von Heyden-Nerfken (born December 2, 1897 in Hamburg , † April 29, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German nobleman, officer and petrochemist .
Life
He came from the East Prussian noble family Heyden-Nerfken . His father was Lieutenant Colonel Georg Wilhelm Egbert von Heyden-Nerfken (* 1864) married to his wife Johanne Dorothea Frieda Rittscher (1875–1927). In his youth he attended the Knight Academy in Brandenburg Cathedral . He took part as an ensign with the Uhlan Regiment No. 9 in the First World War on the Eastern Front , in the campaign against Romania and then as a lieutenant on the Western Front .
After the Peace Treaty of Versailles he studied chemistry at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen until 1925 , passed the state examination in 1926 and received his doctorate there in 1928 with a doctoral thesis on the influence of the methyl group in experiments with δ 1 - δ 2 -, δ 3- methylcyclohexenes and δ 1 - δ 2 -, δ 3-methylcyclohexene oxides to doctorate ( Dr. phil. nat. ). He met the Norwegian Gaspara Elisabeth Cathrine Castberg (born December 14, 1904 in Skien ), who studied foreign languages in Salzburg and Paris, and they married on September 29, 1929 in the garrison church in Oslo . The son Ernst Georg von Heyden (1939–2005) was employed as a doctor of physics at IBM Germany and Norway.
From 1929 to 1931 he was employed by AGFA - / IG Farben AG and the Berlin Sugar Institute , then from 1931 to 1937 at the sugar factory in Wismar . Then he received a scholarship for 1938 at the Institute for Mineral Oil and Lignite Research at the Technical University of Berlin . From April 1, 1938, he worked for Deutsche Erdölgesellschaft A / S, after 1941 Continental Oil , doing research on coal liquefaction , naphtha and synthetic gasoline in Berlin. In 1939 he co-authored the monograph on water resistance as a measure of the ethanol and methanol content of light fuels . He was shot dead on April 29, 1945 in the fighting for Berlin .
Fonts
- About the influence of the methyl group in experiments with δ 1 - δ 2 -, δ 3-methylcyclohexenes and δ 1 - δ 2 -, δ 3-methylcyclohexene oxides . Doctoral thesis 1928, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Grone 1929.
- with Maximilian Marder, Gerhard Tschirpig: The water resistance as a measure of the ethanol and methanol content of light fuels (= Institute for Brown Coal and Mineral Oil Research at the Technical University of Berlin, No. 44). Verlag Chemie, Berlin 1939. doi: 10.1002 / ange.19390520803
Web links
- Literature by and about Egbert von Heyden in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heyden, Egbert von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heyden-Nerfken, Egbert Ernst Georg von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman, officer and chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1945 |
| Place of death | Berlin |