Ernst Herdieckerhoff

Ernst Herdieckerhoff around 1925

Ernst Emil August Constantin Herdieckerhoff (born August 5, 1892 in Unna , Westphalia province , † December 10, 1961 in Leverkusen ) was a German chemist.

family

With his wife Elisabeth, geb. Ramsauer, he had seven children, the youngest child being the businessman Ernst Peter Friedrich Herdieckerhoff, who is married to the archaeologist Margarete van Ess (* 1960).

School and study

Herdieckerhoff attended the Haubinda German State Education Center until 1906 and the Free School Community of Wickersdorf near Saalfeld in the Thuringian Forest from 1906 to 1912 , where he passed his school- leaving examination. At the DLEH in Haubinda he and Martin Luserke founded the comradeship of the " bears ", which Luserke followed in 1906 to Wickersdorf and in 1925 to the school by the sea in Juist .

His correspondence with the teacher August Halm has been preserved from the Wickersdorf period and thereafter . During a meeting of the school community of the FSG Wickersdorf on September 7, 1914, he sharply criticized the school founder Gustav Wyneken , who was convicted of pedophile attacks , who then referred to him as a confidante of the school principal Martin Luserke and mentally disqualified him. As a result of different pedagogical views, there was a camp formation between Luserke and Wyneken proponents in the student body and teachers. Herdieckerhoff maintained friendly contact with his teacher Luserke throughout his life and visited him, for example, at his school by the sea, founded in 1925 on the North Sea island of Juist .

After his participation in World War I , Herdieckerhoff studied chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . There he received his doctorate in 1922 with a dissertation on the effects of halogen on humic acids .

Professional and political development

After graduating, he worked at Bayer AG in Leverkusen , where he made friends with his colleague Robert Ley , who had also studied in Jena. He later became Reichsleiter of the NSDAP and head of the German Labor Front (DAF). Together with this he rejected democracy and the seemingly unstable Weimar Republic . Both turned to the emerging National Socialism . Herdieckerhoff, who was nationally and Christianly oriented, co-founded the NSDAP local group in Opladen in 1924 . There he became deputy local group leader under Oskar Wilhelm, who later became the local group leader of the city of Leverkusen, which was established in 1930. Herdieckerhoff was responsible, among other things, for speaking evenings at which he gave lectures on the thinking of Henry Ford , Freiherrn vom und zum Stein or Ferdinand Lassalle .

Together with Wilhelm, Herdieckerhoff was the publisher of the West German Observer , the first National Socialist newspaper for the Cologne-Leverkusen area. There he was deputy editor. In the mid-1920s, the Herdieckerhoff family is said to have received a visit from Joseph Goebbels and Gregor Strasser .

In 1928 he accused Robert Ley, with whom he was friends until then, of embezzling NSDAP membership fees and reported this to the Munich party headquarters. In November of the same year, after Ley had been appointed full-time organizational head of the NSDAP in the Cologne-Aachen Gau and became a member of the Prussian state parliament , Herdieckerhoff and some of his fellow campaigners announced in writing that they were leaving the party. To Adolf Hitler personally wrote: "After the national leadership of the party by treatment of the case Dr. Ley has proven that she is neither able nor willing to put an end to the corrupting elements in the party, the undersigned have lost all trust in her. They therefore declare their exit from the party. ”However, this should not have been the only reason for the exit. Herdieckerhoff had an elitist consciousness in the national sense. The party members appeared to him to be too primitive at the time.

Herdieckerhoff's family is said to have cultivated a friendship with the family of the pacifist Albert Schweitzer .

Until his retirement in 1958 he worked as a chemist for the research department of Bayer AG. I.a. In 1931 he had a process for the preparation of indoles , in 1934 with Otto Bayer and Hans Schindhelm Heterocyclic hydrazines and in 1953 with Wilhelm Sutter a process for the production of optionally substituted dioxy-diphenylmethanes for a patent.

Works

• with Wilhelm Eller and Hans Saenger: Effect of chlorine on humic acids , in: Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1923, p. 177f., p. 431.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herdieckerhoff, Ernst . From: kalliope-verbund.de, accessed on April 16, 2017
2. ↑ Rosemarie Noack: In den Stürmen von Uruk , in: Die Zeit, 51 (2003), December 11, 2003, on: zeit.de, accessed on November 25, 2017.
3. ^ Logbook of the Schule am Meer Juist, entry from June 21, 1933.
4. ^ Letters from Ernst Herdieckerhoff to August Halm dated June 22, 1910, September 23, 1911 and September 2, 1913, in: Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, at: kalliope-verbund.info, accessed on November 25, 2017.
5. ^ Letter from August Halm to Ernst Herdieckerhoff, 1912, in: Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, on: kalliope-verbund.info, accessed on November 25, 2017.
6. ↑ Peter Dudek : Trial field for a new youth - The free school community Wickersdorf . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2009. ISBN 978-3781516816 , p. 261.
7. ↑ Exciting insights into the Nazi era , in: RP Online, August 22, 2015, at: rp-online.de, accessed on November 25, 2017.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ina Bodenröder: Opladener reports on his father's Nazi past , in: RP Online, August 28, 2015, at: rp-online.de, accessed on November 25, 2017.
9. ↑ Process for the preparation of optionally substituted dioxy-diphenylmethanes . Application number DE1953F0013181, registered on November 9, 1953, publication number DE1051864 B of March 5, 1959. From: google.com, accessed on November 25, 2017.