Franziska Pruckner

Franziska Pruckner (born May 9, 1902 in Munich , † after 1953 ) was a German chemist and later acting head of department at the German Research Institute for Psychiatry ( Kaiser Wilhelm Institute ), Munich.

Life

After graduating from the New Realgymnasium in Munich in 1921, she began studying at the University of Munich , from 1925 to 1931 she continued this in chemistry , physics and mathematics at the University of Leipzig and completed it with the association exams in 1926 and 1928. In 1931 she received her doctorate on "Energetic studies on the photochemical conversion of ortho-nitrobenzaldehyde into ortho-nitrosobenzoic acid". From 1932 to 1934 she worked as a volunteer assistant at the Physico-Chemical Institute in Munich and from 1934 to 1936 as an assistant to Kasimir Fajans in Felix Plant's Serological Institute of the German Research Institute for Psychiatry (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute) in Munich. After Plant was expelled , she worked from 1936 to 1944 as an assistant in the organic-chemical institute at the Technical University of Munich with Hans Fischer . Because of the Nazi conditions, she refused a habilitation and was finally asked - albeit in a different context - to resign. From 1946 to 1953 she was employed again at the German Research Institute for Psychiatry, where she was acting head of the Serological Institute from 1946 to 1949. But since it was used by the American occupying power, it was not only ignored by the colleagues, but initially not even paid for by a boycott of the general administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. She then tried to find a job abroad, but worked from 1949 to 1953 as an assistant in the department previously headed by her.

Fonts (selection)

• with A. Stern: About the light absorption of porphyrins IX. (Ultraviolet Absorption I.). Journal of Physical Chemistry, A 177, 1936
• with A. Stern: light absorption and constitution of chlorophyll derivatives, Z. f. Physically. Chemie, Volume 180, 1937, p. 321, part 2, 3 by F. Pruckner, Volume 187, 1940, pp. 257-275, Volume 188, 1941, p. 41
• with A. Stern: light absorption of some derivatives of bacteriochlorophyll, journal f. Physically. Chemie A, Volume 185, 1939
• with August Oestreicher, Hans Fischer: Rotational dispersion and apparent inactivity of some chlorophyll derivatives, Justus Liebig's Annalen Der Chemie. Volume 546, 1941, pp. 41-49
• with Bernhard Witkop : The constitution of some derivatives of the Harman series in the light of their UV spectra, Justus Liebig's Annalen Der Chemie, Volume 554, 1943, pp. 127–144
• The application of some terms from physics and chemistry to the interpretation of morphological findings on the central nervous system, Archive for Psychiatry and Journal Neurology, Volume 184, 1950, pp 458-472
• with Vivyn Reincke, Gertrud Simon: Investigations on the residual nitrogen content of the cerebrospinal fluid, Archive for Psychiatry and Journal Neurology, Volume 189, 1952, pp. 503-520
• with M. von der Schulenburg, G. Schwuttke: The identification of adsorbed substances by means of their reflection spectra, Natural Sciences, Volume 38, No. 2, 1951, pp. 45-46

literature

• Annette Vogt : From the back entrance to the main portal? Lise Meitner and her colleagues at the Berlin University and in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Stuttgart 2007 (= Pallas Athene, Vol. 17).
• Annette Vogt: Scientist in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. AZ. Berlin 2008, 2nd ext. Edition, pp. 147-148.