Emil Lehnartz

Emil Friedrich Robert Lehnartz (born June 29, 1898 in Remscheid , † January 10, 1979 in Münster ) was a German physiologist and university professor.

Life

Lehnartz was born in Remscheid in 1898 as the son of a businessman. He studied at the universities in Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg , where he received his doctorate. He began his career in 1924 as a university assistant. In 1929 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in chemical physiology at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he became an adjunct professor in 1935. During this time he joined the SA in 1933 . From 1936 to 1939 he worked as a senior assistant at the physiological institute of the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1939 he was appointed associate professor in Münster, and two years later he received a research assignment from the German Research Foundation , where he researched the subject of studies on benzene poisoning . His main research area was the chemical physiology of muscle and intermediate metabolism. In 1946 he was appointed full professor and director of the Institute of Physiological Chemistry. Until his retirement in 1966, he worked at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Lehnartz represented the German universities in numerous national and internationally oriented committees, among other things he was President of the World University Service in 1954 and 1955 and from 1960 to 1968 President of the German Academic Exchange Service as well as chairman of the German-English Society in Düsseldorf (today German-British Society with headquarters in Berlin ) and board member of the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft .

Awards

Lehnartz has received several awards. In 1960 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit and in 1968 the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star. In December 1960 he received the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire . In 1964 he became an officer in the French Legion of Honor and in 1965 an honorary doctorate from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. He was also an honorary doctor of the Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil).

Publications

Nutritional requirements, importance and tasks of individual nutrients , 1939
The chemical requirements of life , 1948
Introduction to Chemical Physiology , 1959
Physiological Chemistry , 1951-1966
Physiological and pathological-chemical analysis , 1953–1966

literature

Eckhart Buddecke: Lehnartz, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 104 f. ( Digitized version ).
Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich - Who Was What Before and After 1945 , Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition: June 2007, p. 363.
Bernd Haunfelder , The Rectors, Curators and Chancellors of the University of Münster 1826–2016. A biographical manual (= publications of the University Archives Münster 14), Aschendorff, Münster 2020, ISBN 978-3-402-15897-5 .
Biography on www.munzinger.de

Web links

Literature by and about Emil Lehnartz in the catalog of the German National Library
List of the rectors of the University of Münster
Portrait series Emil Lehnartz

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Schreiber	Rector of the University of Münster 1946–1949	Franz Beckmann

personal data
SURNAME	Lehnartz, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lehnartz, Emil Friedrich Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1979
Place of death	Muenster