Günther Schiemann

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Günther Robert Arthur Schiemann (born November 7, 1899 in Breslau , Lower Silesia ; † September 11, 1967 in Hanover , Lower Saxony ) was a German chemist , university professor and inventor. In 1927 he discovered the Schiemann reaction .

Life

Günther Schiemann was born in Breslau as the son of Robert Schiemann and his wife Else (née Prager). He had a brother, Horst, and two sisters, Ilse and Gerda. Max Schiemann was his uncle.

Schiemann was an assistant at the University of Breslau in 1924 and 1925 , where he was awarded a doctorate in 1925. phil. received his doctorate . His dissertation of April 29, 1925 was entitled "On the mechanism of the oxidation of uric acid" (University Publishing House , Breslau 1925).

He then worked as a volunteer assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich with Hermann Staudinger from 1925 to 1926 . In 1926 and 1935 he was assistant or senior assistant at the Technical University of Hanover , where he also taught as a private lecturer from 1929 . On September 30, 1935, his position as a senior assistant was terminated and in 1937 his lectureship was also withdrawn for racist reasons. According to the Nazi definition, Schiemann was considered to be " Jewish " because his mother was of Jewish origin.

From 1935 to 1937 Schiemann was a chemist at the company "Duntze & Co." in Cologne-Sülz and from 1937 to 1941 at the company "Dr. Reichhold & Co. ”in Rodenkirchen . In 1941 he switched to Chemische Werk Albert in Wiesbaden-Biebrich as a chemist , where he became head of the patent department in 1942 . From 1945 to 1950 he worked as a chemist and authorized signatory in the company "Schramm Lack- und Farbenfabriken" in Offenbach am Main , today as "Schramm Lacke GmbH Offenbach" a company of the "Grebe Group" ( Weilburg ).

In 1946 he was appointed part-time as a lecturer and professor at the Technical University of Hanover. In 1950 he left Offenbach and went to Istanbul University as a professor and became director of the "Sinai Kimya Institute". In 1956 he returned to the TH Hannover as a professor and headed the institute for technical chemistry there until his death in 1967.

literature

  • Michael Jung: Our hearts beat with enthusiasm towards the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. BOD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6451-3 .
  • Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: “Ostdeutsche Familienkunde”, issue 3/2007, pages 109–120, volume XVIII (55th year), Verlag Degener & Co, Insingen 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Mathis:  Schiemann, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 745 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Michael Jung: Our hearts beat enthusiastically to the Führer. The Technical University of Hanover and its professors under National Socialism. Pp. 125-127.
personal data
SURNAME Schiemann, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiemann, Günther Robert Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1967
Place of death Hanover , Lower Saxony