Günther Baumgarten

Günther Theodor Reinhold Baumgarten (born September 26, 1906 in Magdeburg , † March 22, 1989 in Wernigerode ) was a German pharmacist and chemist .

Life

After attending school in Magdeburg and Bunzlau , Günther Baumgarten passed the pharmaceutical pre- examination in Dessau in 1927 . He then started a pharmaceutical and chemical studies at the University of Berlin , which he in 1933 with the graduation to the Dr. phil. finished successfully. In 1936 he got a job at the Ysatfabrik, later VEB Ysat Wernigerode, where after the end of the Second World War he took over the management of the scientific department, which he held until 1973, when he retired. His main area of ​​activity was the research of cardiac glycosides . In 1963 he succeeded in introducing the new preparation pentaacetylgitoxin.

In 1954 he co-founded the Magdeburg Group of the GDR Pharmaceutical Society, of which he was chairman from 1954 to 1967.

Works

• On intramolecular ring closures of g-halogenated amines with terminal halogen , Berlin 1933
• The heart-active glycosides. Origin, chemistry and bases of their pharmaceutical and clinical effects , 1963.

literature

• Volker Jahn: Baumgarten, Günther Theodor Reinhold. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .
• Ludwig Baumgarten: Dr. Günther Baumgarten in Wernigerode - chemist, musician, system critic / memories on his 100th birthday. In: Neue Wernigeröder Zeitung, Vol. 17, No. 18 of September 6, 2006, pp. 21–22, with ill.

Web links

• Günther Baumgarten in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon