Georg Agde

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Georg Agde (born August 25, 1889 in Halle (Saale) , † September 12, 1944 in Darmstadt ) was a German chemist .

Life

Agde was born in Halle an der Saale in 1889 as the son of hospital inspector Karl Agde and his wife Wilhelmine Heine. From 1909 to 1914 Agde studied technical chemistry, natural sciences and economics at the University of Halle . On September 22, 1914 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. During his military service (1914–1920) he worked as a chemist in the hydrogen plant of the war airship port in Mannheim , became a military gas chemist in 1915 and later worked in various army workshops. In 1917, Agde became head of the Plauen powder factory and two years later became a military chemist in the explosives compartment. From 1921 he held the chair for chemical technology at the commercial and commercial college in Köthen and in 1922 he became adjunct professor and head of department of the chemical-technical institute of the TH Darmstadt .

His main field of work was fuel technology. In 1930 Agde published The Processes in Lump Coke Formation .

Agde was married to Margarete Schürenberg since 1924. He died in the bombing raid on Darmstadt on 11/12. September 1944.

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SURNAME Agde, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1944
Place of death Darmstadt