Friedrich Quincke
Friedrich Peter Hermann Quincke (born August 5, 1865 in Berlin ; † March 30, 1934 in Hanover ) was a German chemist and, as a professor of technical chemistry from 1927 to 1929, rector of the Technical University of Hanover.
Life
Friedrich Quincke is the only son of Georg Hermann Quincke and a grandson of Peter Rieß on his mother's side . Both, like his uncle Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke , were university lecturers in science, so that Friedrich Quincke was born with science.
In 1883 he passed his school leaving examination in Heidelberg and began studying chemistry and physics in Heidelberg , Bonn and Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1888 under August Wilhelm von Hofmann in Berlin on the history of acenaphthene and then worked as an assistant at the University of Göttingen and for Ludwig Mond in London . From 1891 to 1896 he was operations manager at Chemische Fabrik Rhenania AG in Stolberg (Rhineland) . After a short job for a chemical factory in Saxony , Quincke started at Friedr in 1898 . Bayer et comp. initially to work as operations manager in Elberfeld . He was mainly involved in setting up the inorganic department in the new plant in Leverkusen and built one of the world's largest sulfuric acid plants there. He was subsequently authorized (1905) and deputy member (1912) and was in charge during the First World War, the construction of large plants for chlorine - electrolysis and production of nitric acid from ammonia . In 1920 Quincke took over the management of the chemical factory Rhenania AG for a short time and until 1925 chaired the Association of German Chemists .
In 1921 he was appointed professor of technical chemistry at the Technical University of Hanover and devoted his research to technical catalysis . From 1927 to 1929 he led the university as rector. In 1933 he retired .
Quincke died in 1934 and was buried in the Quincke family grave in the cemetery of the French Reformed community in Berlin.
Friedrich Quincke married Emilie Lautenbach (1894), with whom he had three sons and a daughter. His son Hermann Quincke (1901–1982) became a doctor and university lecturer, and one son died in World War I.
Awards
- 1928: Honorary doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
- 1929: Honorary doctorate in engineering from RWTH Aachen University
- 1933: Honorary citizen of the TH Hannover
Fonts (selection)
- Hermann Ost , obituary, in: Angewandte Chemie 44 (1931), 557 ff.
- with Ludwig Mond and Carl Langer: Action of carbon monoxide on nickel in J. Chem. Soc. Trans. 57 (1890) pp. 749-753; doi : 10.1039 / CT8905700749 .
- with Ludwig Mond: About a volatile compound of iron with carbon oxide
- On the history of acenaphthene , inaugural dissertation TU Berlin, Bading, 1888
literature
- Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover, 1931, p. 21.
- Hans-Wilhelm Marquardt: Quincke, Friedrich Peter Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 49 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Quincke in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Friedrich Quincke , accessed on March 4, 2010.
- ^ Alfred Etzold and Wolfgang Türk: The Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof: The burial places on Berlin's Chausseestrasse , Links, 1993, ISBN 9783861532613 , p. 24.
Directors: Karl Karmarsch (1831–1875) | Wilhelm Launhardt (1875–1880)
Rectors: Wilhelm Launhardt (1880–1886) | Karl Dolezalek (1886-1892) | Wilhelm Kohlrausch (1892–1895) | Albert Frank (1895–1898) | Heinrich Köhler (1898–1901) | Ludwig Kiepert (1901–1904) | Georg Barkhausen (1904–1907) | Hermann Ost (1907–1910) | Franz Frese (1910–1911) | Karl Mohrmann (1911–1913) | Robert Otzen (1913–1915) | Carl Heim (1915–1917) | Ludwig Troske (1917–1919) | Conrad Müller (1919–1923) | Ernst Vetterlein (1923–1925) | Fritz Oesterlen (1925–1927) | Friedrich Quincke (1927–1929) | Otto Blum (1929–1931) | Ludwig Klein (1931–1933) | Otto Franzius (1933–1934) | Horst von Sanden (1934–1937) | Hanns Simons (1937–1939) | Alexander Matting (1940-1943) | Helmut Pfannmüller (1943–1945) | Conrad Müller (1945–1947) | Otto Flachsbart (1947–1950) | Walter Großmann (1950–1951) | Hermann Deckert (1951–1952) | Walter Hensen (1952–1954) | Hans Schönfeld (1954–1956) | Johannes Schlums (1956–1957) | Walter Theilacker (1957–1958) | Wilhelm Nicolaisen (1958–1959) | Egon Martyrer (1959–1960) | Wilhelm Wortmann (1960–1961) | Hans-Oskar Wilde (1961–1963) | Albert Vierling (1963–1964) | Walter Renard (1964–1966) | Theodor Kaluza (1966–1968) | Alf Pflüger (1968–1969) | Eduard Pestel (1969–1970) | Hermann Böhrs (1970–1971) | Jürgen Wehrmann (1971–1972) | Lothar Hübl (1973–1974) | Gerhart Laage (1974–1975) | Hinrich Seidel (1975–1977) | Otwin Massing (1977–1978) | Klaus Schäfer (1978–1979)
President: Hinrich Seidel (1979–1997) | Ludwig Schätzl (1997–2005) | Erich Barke (2005–2014) | Volker Epping (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quincke, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quincke, Friedrich Peter Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist; Rector of the Technical University of Hanover (1927–1929) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1934 |
| Place of death | Hanover |