Ferdinand Reiff

Ferdinand Reiff (born June 25, 1897 in Cologne , † June 28, 1991 in Mannheim ) was a German chemist and university professor.

Reiff received his doctorate in 1922 at the University of Leipzig and completed his habilitation in 1932 at the University of Marburg . There he taught as a private lecturer and became an associate professor in 1939. From 1941 to 1945 he worked at the University of Berlin . Reiff became a member of the SA in 1933 and signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler .

After the end of the war, he headed the research laboratory of the Waldhof pulp factory ("Zewa") from 1947 and also held a teaching position at Heidelberg University . From 1960 he worked for the chemical factory Joh. A. Benckiser ("Calgon"), where he became managing director in 1966.

Fonts

• Investigations into the relationship between the performance of a Leclanché element and the adsorption capacity of graphite for hydrogen [= dissertation 1922]
• Acid Properties of Metal Salt Hydrates , Journal f. inorganic u. general chemistry. Vol. 208, Leipzig 1932 [= Marburg habilitation thesis]
• Co-author: Die Hefen , 2 vol., Nuremberg 1960–1962

literature

• Anne Christine Nagel (Ed.): The Philipps University of Marburg under National Socialism: documents on its history , Steiner, Stuttgart 2000 (p. 540)
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 261.