Ernst Ludwig Eberhard Schmitz

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Ernst Schmitz inspecting equipment in March 1949 at Fahlberg-List

Ernst Ludwig Eberhard Schmitz (born March 23, 1882 in Dortmund , † February 8, 1960 in Magdeburg ) was a German chemist.

Life

Ernst Schmitz was born as the fourth child of the Government Building Councilor Franz Schmitz. He grew up in Cologne and then took up chemistry studies in Bonn and Göttingen . In 1905 he did his doctorate under Otto Wallach on the subject of the derivatives of β-terpineol . This was followed by a partial course in medicine in Freiburg.

From 1906 to 1909 he worked for Paul Ehrlich in Frankfurt am Main , where he dealt in particular with arsenic compounds . Ehrlich developed the syphilis drug Salvarsan in 1909 . Ernst Schmitz then worked at the Frankfurt Institute for Vegetative Physiology until 1918. After completing his habilitation in 1916 , he became an associate professor in 1920. In 1921 he received a chair at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . He published about 100 papers, working mainly on topics relating to the physiology of the liver, glands, muscles and the central nervous system until 1932. With the end of the Second World War , Schmitz had to flee from Breslau in 1945 and in the same year became head of the pharmaceutical laboratory of Fahlberg-List , a chemical and pharmaceutical producer in the Salbke district of Magdeburg . The main focus here was the synthesis of drugs. The most important task was the synthesis of Salvarsan, a means to combat syphilis, which occurs frequently in the Soviet occupation zone . On July 15, 1946, the first five kilograms of a Savarsan analog were handed over. With the agent, initially marketed under the name Arsaminol, then as Neo-Arsoluin , the spread of the disease was successfully contained. Schmitz received the National Prize of the GDR 2nd class in 1949 . The Society for German-Soviet Friendship made him an honorary member . Schmitz was on the board of a Pavlov working group founded in 1953, which was dedicated to spreading the teachings of the Russian physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov . At least in the early 1950s Schmitz lived in the Magdeburg district of Westerhüsen at the address Alt Westerhüsen 175 in the immediate vicinity of the plant. His neighbor in this house was his colleague Hans Fürst . The building no longer exists today.

Fonts

  • New modification products from β-terpineol , doctoral thesis Göttingen 1905
  • Mechanism of Acrose Formation (thus total synthesis of fructose and sorbose ) , 1913
  • Adhesion strength of arsenic acid to the aromatic core , 1914
  • Short textbook of chemical physiology , 1920, revised 1959
  • Urinary pigments , 1925
  • Detection and determination of protein bodies and their breakdown products in blood plasma , 1927
  • Chemistry of Fats , 1927
  • Harn , 1927
  • Chemistry of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System , 1929
  • Mineral metabolism and nutrition , 1932
  • A new component of the adrenal cortex , 1933
  • Internal secretion of the adrenal cortex , 1933
  • The importance of the spleen for the building metabolism of the central nervous system , 1941
  • Behavior of carbohydrates in the mouth , 1943
  • Paul Ehrlich and the emergence of chemotherapeutic science , 1955

literature

  • Ernst Schmitz: Schmitz, Ernst Ludwig Eberhard. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 639.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Rasenberger : From the sweet beginning to the bitter end - Fahlberg List in Magdeburg. dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 2009, ISBN 978-3-938380-06-2 , page 79.
  2. ↑ Werner Höfer: Clinical experience with Neo-Arsoluin in syphilis treatment. In: German health system. Volume 6, 1951, pp. 1343-1347.
  3. ^ Honorary member of the "Society" in the Berliner Zeitung of September 22, 1949, page 2.
  4. ^ First Pavlov Working Group of the GDR in New Germany from November 22, 1953, page 6.
  5. ^ Address book of the city of Magdeburg 1950/1951, Part II, page 212.
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Ernst Ludwig Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1960
Place of death Magdeburg