Friedrich Klages

Friedrich Klages (born February 8, 1904 in Bad Harzburg , † November 3, 1989 ) was a German chemist and adjunct professor of chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Klages, son of the entrepreneur and sawmill owner Heinrich Klages , studied chemistry in Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate in 1928 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He then worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and from 1932 again at the University of Munich, where he completed his habilitation in organic chemistry in 1935 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1941. He taught here until his retirement in 1968.

Works (excerpt)

• Structure and properties of matter in the micro- and macrocosm , de Gruyter, Berlin 1979
• The world empire of chemistry , Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970
• Introduction to Organic Chemistry , 3rd edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 1969
• Textbook of organic chemistry , in 3 volumes (4 books), de Gruyter, Berlin. Volume 1 (in 2 halves), 2nd edition, 1959. Volume 2, 3rd edition, 1962. Volume 3, 2nd edition, 1967.
• Attempts to prepare purely aliphatic ditertiary hydrazines and the action of nitric oxide on alcoholates. Druck Nay, Berlin 1928 (inaugural dissertation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich).

literature

• Kaspar Bott: Friedrich Klages (1904–1989). In: Chemical Reports. Volume 126, No. 7, 1993, pp. I-IX, doi : 10.1002 / cber.19931260702 .

Web links

• Professor Friedrich Klages 80 years. Press release P 3-84 of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, January 31, 1984.