Friedrich Müller (chemist)

Friedrich Anton Müller (born May 9, 1895 in Casilda (Santa Fe) , Argentina , † September 19, 1953 in Goslar ) was a German electrochemist .

Müller studied chemistry in Jena and Dresden since 1913, interrupted by military service in the First World War. He received his doctorate there in 1921 and completed his habilitation in electrochemistry in 1925. In 1930 he became an associate professor at the TH Dresden and, as successor to Erich Müller , was acting provisionally from 1935, from 1937 officially the Institute for Electrochemistry at the TH Dresden, in 1936 he became head of the four-year plan institute for electrochemistry under the general manager Carl Krauch and chairman for electrochemistry Reich Research Council . He was primarily responsible for the development of accumulators and invented a 1000-volt battery for the new missile weapons that Wernher von Braun developed. Müller taught until 1947. Then he worked in private industry for Swiss companies.

After the SA took over the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten , in 1933, he resigned. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

The journalist Ursula Müller was his daughter.

Fonts

• Catalytic decomposition of formic acid , 1927
• with Erich Müller: Potentiometric Metal Determination , 1927
• Theory and methodology of the electron tube potentiometer for measuring electromotive forces. In: Journal of Electrochemistry and Applied Physical Chemistry 36, 11, pp. 923-934, 1930/31

literature

• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 655.
• Helmut Maier : Chemists in the "Third Reich": The German Chemical Society and the Association of German Chemists in the Nazi Rule , Wiley 2015 ISBN 978-3-527-33846-7