Eugen Leo Lederer

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Eugen Leo Lederer (born April 7, 1884 in Podersam , Bohemia , † April 13, 1947 in Zandvoort , North Holland ) was a German chemist .

Life

Lederer studied chemistry from 1904 to 1908 at the University of Prague , where he also became a member of the Corps Austria , and completed his academic training with a doctorate in medicine. phil. from. He was initially active from 1913 as a teacher at a grammar school in Prague-Weinberge . During this time he was also in scientific exchange with Niels Bohr . During the First World War , Lederer initially served as a lieutenant in a machine gun division, was promoted to captain and received, among other things, the Knight's Cross of the Austrian Order of Franz Joseph . From 1922 to 1924 he was a chemist at "Chemische Fabriken Victri-Krewel AG" in Hamburg-Altona and from Easter 1926 teacher of mathematics , physics and chemistry in Hamburg. He completed his habilitation in 1932 at the Technical University of Braunschweig and then worked there as a private lecturer for chemistry and technology of fats and oils. Because of his Jewish origins, his admission as a private lecturer was revoked with immediate effect by a decree of May 6, 1933 with reference to the law for the restoration of the civil service ; therefore it was no longer possible to appoint a professor . In 1939 he emigrated to the Netherlands. There he was arrested after the German occupation and first taken to the Amersfoort protective custody camp , then to the Westerbork transit camp , before he was finally taken to the Theresienstadt ghetto . He survived there and returned to the Netherlands on June 21, 1945.

Works

literature

  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 798.
  • Bettina Gundler : Catalogus Professorum of the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig. Part 2: Teachers 1877–1945. (= Contributions to the history of Carolo Wilhelmina 9), Braunschweig 1991, p. 153.
  • Anikó Szabó: eviction, return, reparation. Göttingen university professor in the shadow of National Socialism, with biographical documentation of the dismissed and persecuted university professors: University of Göttingen - TH Braunschweig - TH Hannover - University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. Wallstein , Göttingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-89244-381-0 (= publications of the working group History of Lower Saxony (after 1945), Volume 15, also dissertation at the University of Hanover 1998).
  • University archive Braunschweig, personnel file AI: 143, 194.
  • Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae. Volume 1, Dortmund 1995, p. 126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Gerlach (Ed.): Kösener Corpslisten 1930. Austria No. 193.
  2. ↑ Ulrich Hoyer: The history of Bohr's atomic theory. P. 34.
  3. ^ Anikó Szabó: Expulsion, return, reparation. P. 53.
  4. ↑ Lutz-Eugen Reutter: The auxiliary activity of Catholic organizations. P. 193.
personal data
SURNAME Lederer, Eugen Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Podersam , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1947
Place of death Zandvoort , North Holland