Ernst Terres

Ernst Terres (born January 13, 1887 in Metz , † July 1, 1958 in Munich ) was a German chemist .

Life

Ernst Terres studied chemistry in Karlsruhe, Heidelberg and Graz. His doctorate took place in Karlsruhe in 1909 with a doctoral thesis with Fritz Haber . He then became an assistant to Hans Bunte at the Chemical-Technical Institute of the Technical University of Karlsruhe . He also completed his habilitation in Karlsruhe in 1914 and became an associate professor in 1918 .

After the First World War he worked in industry from 1919 to 1925, namely at the chemical works in Berlin and the Didier works in Stettin . From 1923 to March 1925 he was honorary professor for technical chemistry at the Technical-Chemical Institute in the department for chemistry and metallurgy at the Technical University of Berlin .

On April 1, 1925, he became full professor for technical chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig . He remained in this position until September 30, 1930 and then moved back to Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he became a full professor at the Technical University as the successor to Alfred Stavenhagen . His subjects there were chemical technology and chemistry for miners; he was also head of the chemical laboratory for mining. 1932–1933 he was dean of Faculty IV for materials management at TH Berlin.

Ernst Terres resigned his full professorship in Berlin in the autumn of 1933, but continued to hold an honorary professorship for technical chemistry at Faculty I for General Sciences at TH Berlin until 1945. He again took a job in the private sector and was managing director of Edeleanu GmbH in Berlin, founded by the Romanian chemist Lazar Edeleanu until 1939 . During the Second World War he worked for the Edeleanu Co. in New York.

After the war he worked in the United Kingdom for two years before he accepted an appointment at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1948 . There he became a full professor of gas technology and fuel utilization and director of the gas institute. From 1948 to 1949 he was the university's prorector. In 1951 he became the founding director of the Engler-Bunte-Institute of the TH Karlsruhe. His successor at the chair was Helmut Pichler in 1956 .

Work areas

Terres' research related to the coal chemistry and fuel chemistry , in particular the coal resource recovery by coking of coal . He also worked in the fields of petroleum processing and the combustion processes in engines .

Terres was the editor of the Fuel Chemistry Journal .

Memberships, honors and awards

From 1948 to 1951 Terres was chairman of the German Scientific Society for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal (DGMK). In 1947 he was a member of the provisional board of directors for the re-establishment of the predecessor organization, the German Society for Mineral Oil Research (DGM), which existed until the Second World War . In 1953 the DGMK awarded Terres the Carl Engler Medal , and in 1957 it made him an honorary member. From 1949 to 1958, Terres was chairman of the Mineral Oil and Fuel Standardization Committee in the Materials Testing Standards Committee of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN).

In 1952 the Vienna University of Technology awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Web links

• Ernst Terres in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. techn. hc Ernst Terres. In: Catalogus Professorum: Professors of the TU Berlin and their predecessors. Technical University of Berlin , accessed on May 5, 2019 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Carl Engler Medal 1953: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. tech. hc Ernst Terres. (PDF; 54 KByte) German Scientific Society for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal (DGMK), archived from the original on March 23, 2017 ; accessed on May 5, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Manfred Rasch :  Pichler, Helmut. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 415 f. ( Digitized version ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Bernd-Rüdiger Altmann: 75 years DGMK - German Scientific Society for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal e. V. (1933-2008) . In: petroleum natural gas coal . 124. Vol. 5. Urban-Verlag, 2008, ISSN  0179-3187 , p. 244–260 ( dgmk.de [PDF; 432 kB ]).