Franz Rudolf Runge

Franz Rudolf Runge (born December 5, 1893 in Göttingen ; † August 29, 1973 in Halle / Saale ) was a German chemist ( technical chemistry ).

Runge studied in Kiel from 1914 and in Göttingen from 1919 , where he received his doctorate in 1922 . He was an assistant at the Bergakademie Clausthal and at the TH Stuttgart (and briefly in Göttingen in 1926), spent two years in a metallurgy company in Aussig (Ústí) and then worked for IG Farben (Bitterfeld, Wolfen, Heydebreck). From 1947 until his retirement in 1963 he was full professor of technical chemistry at the University of Halle . In 1953 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1959 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for science and technology .

He dealt with technical organic chemistry, for example for the production of dialkenes (1930), butenol (1931), terephthalic acid (1953), dealt with organometallic compounds (especially with magnesium ) and ion exchangers .

Fonts

• Editor with Wilhelm Karl Schwarze: Textbook of chemical technology, Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag, Leipzig, 27th edition 1965 (founded by Hermann Ost and Berthold Rassow )
• Organometallic compounds: the organic synthesis with the help of organometallic compounds (2 parts), Stuttgart, Wiss. Verlagsges., 2nd edition 1944
• Organomagnesiumverbindungen, (organometallic compounds, Volume 1), Stuttgart, Wiss. Verlagsges. 1932
• Introduction to the chemistry and technology of plastics, 1952, 4th edition, Akademieverlag 1976

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum: Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .

Web links

• Page about Runge at the Saxon Academy of Sciences
• Member Post by Franz Runge at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on April 12, 2015.
• Entry on Franz Rudolf Runge in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis