Fritz Limmer

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Fritz Limmer (born May 25, 1881 in Kulmbach ; † March 28, 1947 there ; full name: Michael Friedrich Limmer ) was a German chemist and university professor , who is also known as a photographer and local researcher .

Life

Limmer was born in 1881 as the eldest son of the mill owner and member of the state parliament Hermann Limmer (1848–1921) in Kulmbach, Upper Franconia. His mother Marie Limmer b. Jahn came from a long-established family of pharmacists. From 1901 to 1905 Fritz Limmer studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich and at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen . It was on November 1, 1904, the Erlangen University for Dr. phil. PhD . The title of his dissertation was "On Benzimidazoles and Derivatives of Parachlororthophenylenediamine". His doctoral supervisor was the chemist Otto Fischer , a cousin of the Nobel Prize winner Emil Fischer .

Limmer then worked for two years as an assistant at the Chemical Institute of the Bergakademie Freiberg . From 1907 he worked with Adolf Miethe in the photochemical laboratory of the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . There he completed his work "The bleaching process (color matching process), a possibility of direct body color photography". This work was initially self-published and in 1911 in a greatly expanded version. In May 1909 Limmer completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Braunschweig and taught there as a private lecturer . During his time in Braunschweig , Limmer u. a. known for his photographs by the Braunschweig-based writer Wilhelm Raabe .

In April 1912 he was appointed professor and founding director of the newly created Institute for Scientific and Applied Photography at the Technical University of Darmstadt . The institute was assigned to the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Limmer's rooms were in the Physics Institute on Hochschulstrasse. His task was to train students from all departments in photographic and photochemical techniques.

In 1915 Limmer volunteered for military service in the 6th Army Air Force and was deployed as an expert in aerial reconnaissance until November 1918 . Only after the end of the First World War did he resume teaching at the Darmstadt University in 1919. Limmer gave numerous courses in the field of photography and chemistry. His specialty was the use of photography in the service of local history and monument preservation . Fritz Limmer retired in 1932 . Since there was initially no successor for him, he continued to do the job on a voluntary basis until the institute was closed in 1935.

Limmer recorded the events in Darmstadt from 1919 on in a meticulous 22-volume diary. This is a unique document of Darmstadt's city history from the 1920s to 1940s. The diary is now in the possession of the Darmstadt City Archives.

Fritz Limmer was born in August 1918 with Margarete. Albert married. The two daughters Inge (1920–2001) and Helgard (1928–1955) emerged from the marriage.

During his Darmstadt years, Limmer lived with his family for a long time in an apartment in the apartment building Olbrichweg 14 on Mathildenhöhe , which was part of a group of tenement houses built by Albin Müller in 1914 as a prototype for the exhibition of the Darmstadt artists' colony. The building was completely destroyed in the bombing raid on Darmstadt on the night of September 11-12, 1944. Limmer then moved with his family to Kulmbach. He died there in March 1947 at the age of almost 66.

Fonts

  • About benzimidazoles and derivatives of parachlorothophenylenediamine. Erlangen 1904.
  • The bleaching process. Hall 1911.
  • The Institute for Scientific and Applied Photography at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1928.

literature

  • Fritz Limmer. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, p. 560 f.
  • Ralf Georg Czapla : A portrait of the artist as an old man. On the iconography of the Raabe portrait in contemporary photography and painting. In: Herbert Blume (ed.): By Wilhelm Raabe and others. Lectures from the Braunschweig Raabe House. Bielefeld / Gütersloh 2001 (Braunschweiger Contributions to the German Language and Literature, 5), pp. 11–43.
  • Karl Esselborn: Fritz Limmer (1881–1947), university professor. In: Hessian biographies. Volume 2, 1979, pp. 247-250.
  • Hans Stößlein: Professor Dr. Fritz Limmer (1881–1947), scientist, photographer, home curator. Kulmbach 1981.
  • Uwe Wasserthal, Friedrich Wilhelm Knieß: Photography in Darmstadt. The first century 1839–1939. Darmstadt 2014.
  • Christa Wolf, Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1976, p. 125.

Individual evidence

  1. Herbert Blume : From Wilhelm Raabe and others. Lectures from the Braunschweig Raabe House. Verlag für Regionalgeschichte 2001, pp. 36–37.
  2. Ludwig Popp : Fritz Limmer, the photographer Wilhelm Raabes. In: Yearbook of the Raabe Society. Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei, Braunschweig 1981, pp. 7–9.