Ernst Baars

Ernst Baars (born January 13, 1894 in Oldenburg , † October 24, 1969 in Long Beach , New Jersey , United States ) was a German chemist who worked in the United States after 1945.

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Baars studied chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1912 to 1925, interrupted by military service from 1914 to 1918, until he completed his doctorate as an academic student of Alfred Thiel . He was there from 1919 to 1921 as an assistant at the Chemical Institute and from 1921 to 1938 at the Physico-Chemical Institute. Thiel completed his habilitation in 1929 on the subject of overvoltage in the electrolytic separation of hydrogen , then became a private lecturer and in 1937 an associate professor at the Physico-Chemical Institute in Marburg. In November 1933, Baars signed the German professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and had been a member of the NSDAP since 1937 . From 1938 to 1947 he was head of research at the physical and chemical laboratory and chairman of the armaments-important Akkumulatoren-Fabrik AG (AFA) in Hagen-Berlin, the parent plant of what later became the Varta Group . In 1939 he became associate professor in Berlin and in 1941 honorary professor at the TH Hannover.

From 1947 to 1969 he worked at the Research and Development Laboratory of the US Army Signal Corps in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey as a technical consultant . Since he had developed the on - board batteries for the remote rocket unit 4 (V 2) as well as other rocket projects at the accumulator factory in Berlin-Hagen , he was invited to the USA as part of Operation Paperclip .

His areas were theoretical and technical electrochemistry , theory of electrolytes , especially accumulators .

Fonts

The overvoltage in the electrolytic formation of hydrogen . In: Meeting reports of the Society for the Promotion of the Entire Natural Sciences in Marburg . Volume 63, No. 10, 1928.

literature

TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1856 , Hanover: Technical University of 1956, p. 199.

Individual evidence

↑ Christoph Meinel : Chemistry at the University of Marburg since the beginning of the 19th century: A contribution to its development as a university subject. In: Academia Marburgensis , ed. from the Philipps University of Marburg, vol. 3. Marburg: Elwert, 1978, p. 498.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present. (PDF; 4.4 MB) Ninth, improved and expanded edition. Chemistry Department at Philipps University, February 2020, p. 74 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Baars, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German electrochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oldenburg in Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 24, 1969
Place of death	Long Beach , New Jersey , United States

[1] Christoph Meinel : Chemistry at the University of Marburg since the beginning of the 19th century: A contribution to its development as a university subject. In: Academia Marburgensis , ed. from the Philipps University of Marburg, vol. 3. Marburg: Elwert, 1978, p. 498.

[Uni_Marburg-2] Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present. (PDF; 4.4 MB) Ninth, improved and expanded edition. Chemistry Department at Philipps University, February 2020, p. 74 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .