Erich Friedländer

This article deals with the German-American chemist; for the German institutional psychiatrist see Erich Friedlaender

Erich Friedländer (born May 13, 1901 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 4, 1997 in Bern ) was a German-American chemist.

The son of the medical councilor Julius Friedländer, who died in 1929, graduated from the Goethe-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main. In the summer semester of 1920, Erich Friedländer began studying chemistry and economics at the University of Frankfurt . After he had to drop out of his studies for economic reasons in 1922, he first worked in a bank and finally in the management of a shoe factory in Frankfurt. In 1927 he continued his studies, which he completed in 1928. He received his doctorate in 1930 under Alfred Magnus and Erich Heymann "On the degree of dispersion of solutions of cadmium and cadmium chloride ('Pyrosols')".

In 1930 Friedlaender accepted a position at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry . After the enactment of the law to restore the civil service , he left the institute as a Jew in April 1933.

Friedländer first went to Paris , where he worked in Jean Perrin's institute at the Sorbonne . Then he went to Switzerland , where he worked for the Aristopharm company in Basel from 1934 to 1936 and for Hoffmann-La Roche from 1936 to 1940 . In 1940 he emigrated to the USA , where he also found employment in the pharmaceutical industry.

Friedländer changed his name to Eric Charles Flint . However, details about the time of the name change or the further life of Friedländer are not known.

Fonts

• About the degree of dispersion of the solutions of cadmium in cadmium chloride (“pyrosols”) . In: Journal for physical chemistry , Dept. A, Vol. 148 (1930), pp. 177-194; also separate print, Akad. Verlagsges., Leipzig 1930.

literature

• Reinhard Rürup : Fates and Careers. Memorial book for the researchers expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society by the National Socialists. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 9783892447979 , pp. 195–196.