Günther Bugge

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Friedrich Detlef Günther Bugge (born July 23, 1885 in Godesberg , † December 15, 1944 in Konstanz ) was a German chemist and chemical historian.

Bugge received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Munich in 1908 ("Compounds of metal salts with nitriles and isonitriles") and was then an assistant in Munich, Berlin and Danzig. In 1912 he was a chemist at the Heyden chemical factory in Radebeul . From 1913 he was at the Bergakademie Clausthal and was editor of the journal for applied chemistry . From 1918 he was the head of the library and patent department of the Holzverkohlungs-Industrie AG in Konstanz.

He became known as the editor of a two-volume collection of chemists' biographies. The volumes were reprinted in 1956 and more often, although the content was not revised, so that the work was already partially out of date when it was reissued in 1956. Contributions were made by Julius Ruska (about Zosimos from Panopolis ), Ernst Darmstaedter (about pseudo-donors ), Eduard Farber , Georg Lockemann , Paul Walden , Wilhelm Ostwald (including about Michael Faraday ), Richard Willstätter (about Adolf von Baeyer ), Max Bloch (1882–1941), Ernst Julius Cohen (via Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff ) and Otto Brunck (via Clemens Winkler ). They range to Emil Fischer (from Max Bergmann ), Paul Ehrlich and Svante Arrhenius . Bugge wrote, among other things, the article about Martin Heinrich Klaproth . Biographical information on many other chemists can be found in the footnotes.

In 1933 he became deputy chairman of the history of chemistry department of the VDCh .

In 1932 he published a call for an international association of technicians under the pseudonym Philotechnicus, which is considered to be one of the origins of the term technocracy . The movement was banned by the Nazi rulers in 1933, but the idea of ​​an ostensibly non-political technocracy remained more widespread and met the ideas of influential circles in the National Socialist regime.

He wrote a biography of the alchemist Leonhard Thurneysser . He translated New Atlantis by Francis Bacon (re-edited in 1988 by J. Klein).

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literature

  • Obituary in: Die Chemie , Volume 58, 1944, p. 48
  • Entry in: Wilhelm Kosch u. a .: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century , Saur, De Gruyter 2012, Volume 4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by H. Schimank in Angewandte Chemie, Volume 68, 1956, p. 596.
  2. ^ Professor of Chemistry in Leningrad
  3. ↑ Stefan Willeke, The Technocracy Movement Between the World Wars and the "Culture Factor Technology" , in: Burkhard Dietz, Michael Fessner, Helmut Maier (Eds.), Technical Intelligence and "Culture Factor Technology" : Cultural ideas of technicians and engineers between the German Empire and the early Federal Republic, Waxmann, 1996, p. 203
  4. ^ Günther Bugge (Philotechnicus): Technokratie, in: Technik Voran!, Volume 14, 1932, pp. 296–299, 313–316
  5. ↑ Helmut Maier, chemist in the "Third Reich", Wiley-VCH, 2015, p. 329
  6. ↑ Pages based on the 1956 edition
personal data
SURNAME Bugge, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bugge, Friedrich Detlef Günther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Godesberg
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1944
Place of death Constancy