Fritz Foerster
Fritz Foerster (born February 22, 1866 in Grünberg , Silesia , † September 14, 1931 in Dresden ; also Jeremias Sigismund Friedrich Carl Foerster ) was a German chemist and university professor . In the academic year 1917/18 he was appointed rector of the Technical University of Dresden .
Life
Fritz Foerster came from an old family of drapers who had been living in Grünberg in Silesia since the 16th century. He was born in 1866 as the eldest son of the wealthy businessman and writer August Foerster and Anna Eichmann. Together with his brother Max , who later worked as a professor for reinforced concrete construction at the TH Dresden, Fritz Foerster received a good education. Foerster became interested in chemistry very early on. In an experiment he lost his left eye in adolescence. From 1884 he studied chemistry at the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg and received his doctorate in 1888 under August Wilhelm von Hofmann . He then worked as an assistant to Franz Mylius at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin and received his habilitation at the TH Berlin based on his research and fundamental publications on the behavior of glasses. In 1895 he accepted a position at the TH Dresden, where he taught special electrochemistry.
The following year he married Martha Zanke. The marriage has two sons and a daughter.
Fritz Foerster became associate professor in 1898 and full professor for physical chemistry and electrochemistry two years later. In 1905 his textbook Electrochemistry of Aqueous Solutions was published , which for a long time was considered a standard work.
He made contributions to tautomerism , worked on copper electrolysis and alkali chloride electrolysis and researched passivity phenomena in electrolysis . He also examined the Edison accumulator and Wackenroder 's liquid as a desulfurizing agent and had publications on Saxon hard coal, in particular on its behavior during distillation, the determination of its calorific value, its sulfur and nitrogen content and low-temperature coking. In 1912 Fritz Foerster became the holder of the chair for inorganic and inorganic-technical chemistry at the TH Dresden and was the rector of the university in 1917/18.
From a technical point of view, Foerster became an important contact person for the state and industry: from 1908 he was the representative of the Saxon state in the fiscal blue color factory in Aue and in 1920 became a member of the board of directors of the Heyden chemical factory in Radebeul.
Fritz Foerster died in Dresden in 1931, his grave is in the Tolkewitz municipal cemetery and urn grove .
Honors
Fritz Foerster had already received numerous honors during his lifetime, including being appointed Privy Councilor, was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences from 1912 and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen from 1921 . In 1913 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Stuttgart .
The building of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Food Chemistry at the TU Dresden has been named Fritz Foersters since 1954 . Fritz-Foerster-Platz on the university campus in Dresden's Südvorstadt was also named after him .
In 1918 Foerster was appointed Knight 1st Class of the Saxon Order of Merit and Commander 2nd Class of the Order of Albrecht , and he also wore the Cross of Honor for voluntary welfare work.
Fonts (selection)
- The electronic practice (1900/01)
- Electrochemistry of Aqueous Solutions (1905)
- Contributions to the knowledge of the electrochemical behavior of iron (1909)
literature
- Klaus Foerster: Fritz Foerster - tireless researcher and university professor . In: Dresdner Latest News , April 7, 2000, p. 13.
- Werner Klaus: personalities from science and technology. Fritz Foerster . In: University newspaper, April 16, 1980.
- Erich Müller: Fritz Foerster and his work . In: Journal for inorganic and general chemistry , Volume 204, Issue 1–2, 1932.
- Arthur Simon: Foerster, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 274 ( digitized version ).
- Technical University of Dresden: buildings and names . Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 1997.
- Bernhard Sorms: Foerster, Fritz (Jeremias Sigismund Karl Friedrich). In: 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. 221 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Foerster in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Address Book Dresden 1918, Part I, p. 164. ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Buildings and names , p. 18.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 82.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foerster, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foerster, Jeremias Sigismund Karl Friedrich; Foerster, Jeremias Sigismund Friedrich Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünberg , Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1931 |
| Place of death | Dresden |