Friedbert Ritter

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Friedbert Emil Friedrich Albert Ritter (born February 18, 1900 in Hessisch Lichtenau , † February 22, 1981 in Hallgarten ) was a German chemist and industrialist .

Life

Family and education

Friedbert Ritter, son of evangelical pastor Gottfried Theodor Ritter and his wife Charlotte was born Schaub, younger brother of the historian Gerhard Ritter , the theologian Karl Bernhard Ritter and the orientalist Hellmut Ritter , turned to the High School to the study of chemistry at the University of Marburg to, which he obtained in 1923 with the doctorate to Dr. phil. completed. During his studies he became a member of the Marburger Wingolf .

Ritter was married in his first marriage to Maria Martha, who was born in Stuttgart in 1929, and who was the daughter of the publisher Max Holland. In his second marriage, Ritter married Margarethe, born in 1909 in 1931, daughter of the postmaster in Hessisch Lichtenau Gideon Ritter (1873–1954). The five children Wolfram, Gudrun, Jost, Beate and Monika came from this marriage. Ritter, the descendant of the canonized Landgrave Elisabeth of Thuringia and the reformer Philipp Melanchthon , died in Hallgarten in 1981, just after he had turned 81.

Professional career

After graduating, Ritter began an industrial career, during which he was involved as a chemist and engineer between 1924 and 27 in the development of a more productive process for phosphorus chemistry in Bitterfeld. Later he succeeded as a director in the IG Farben group during the Third Reich . In the subsequent course of Ritter was on 11 July 1946 by the British military government as trustee and manager of the joint-stock company for nitrogen fertilizers in Knapsack used in 1951 he was appointed CEO appointed Griesheim Knapsack AG, at the same time he was appointed to the Management Board of Hoechst AG elected . In 1961 he retired from professional life.

Ritter, who also held various honorary positions, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Stuttgart and the Federal Cross of Merit in recognition of his services to the economic development of chemistry at the Knapsack plant .

literature

  • Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker: Adressbuch Deutscher Chemiker, Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, 1956, p. 370.
  • August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who, Volume 16 ,, Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1054.
  • Society of German Chemists: News from Chemistry, Technology and Laboratory, Volume 29, Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, 1981, p. 398.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Quoted section from Bitterfeld Chronicle: 100 Years of the Bitterfeld Wolfen Chemical Site, Ed .: Board of Directors of Chemie AG, Bitterfeld Wolfen, 1993, page 78 (PDF; 12.3 MB).

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personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Friedbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritter, Friedbert Emil Friedrich Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hessian Lichtenau
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1981
Place of death Hallgarten