Georg Kränzlein

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Georg Kränzlein (between 1910 and 1920 in Frankfurt-Höchst)

Georg Kränzlein (born November 27, 1881 in Wassertrüdingen , † November 5, 1943 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German chemist and SS-Obersturmbannführer .

Life

Georg Kränzlein attended secondary school in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and the industrial school in Nuremberg and after graduating from high school, studied chemistry at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1907 he was in Würzburg with his work over the formation of thio derivatives of aromatic aldehydes, ketones and Hydrole to Dr. phil. PhD .

Kränzlein initially worked for a year in the chemical laboratory of the Frankfurt Physics Association before joining the Farbwerke in 1908, formerly Master Lucius & Brüning in Höchst am Main . Kränzlein developed numerous vat and wool dyes and introduced the anthrasol dyes. During the First World War he worked successfully as a "war chemist" on the development of gas and smoke ammunition as well as shooting grenades and tracer and phosphor ammunition.

Due to his achievements in the war, he was given the management of the Alizarin factory in 1920, where he received power of attorney in 1923 and was appointed director in 1928.

In 1922 Kränzlein was co-founder and from 1933 to 1943 chairman of the scientific commission for alizarin and vat dyes of IG Farben .

Georg Kränzlein founded the IG-Farben plastics commission in 1930 and in 1936 became chairman of the specialist group for plastics chemistry in the Association of German Chemists (VDCh).

He was a member of the NSDAP from May 1933 (membership number 2,399,639) and was already a candidate for membership in the SS in June 1933 . The SS recognized the opportunities that resulted from the involvement of the “IG's first gas chemist”. In January 1934 Georg Kränzlein was admitted to the SS (membership number 124.908) and in the course of his SS career he last achieved the rank of SS Obersturmbannführer. Georg Kränzlein gave the SS members their training in the most modern gas and air protection systems at the IG's Frankfurt plant

1935 Kränzlein was the Gauleiter Gau Hessen Nassau Jakob Sprenger called for the NSDAP for alderman of the City of Frankfurt am Main.

Kränzlein was a staunch National Socialist and fanatical anti-Semite who openly agitated against Jews and demanded the strict application of the Nuremberg Laws . He strongly advocated that Jewish employees in research should initially be retired early and predicted some time before the start of the Second World War "a great Jewish cleaning in Europe including Russia" and that "Europe will not have Jews in 5 years has more ”.

At the end of the 1930s he was a speaker at the Plassenburg , the imperial training castle for German technology .

In 1940 Kränzlein became head of the Hesse-Nassau Gauamt for technology of the NSDAP and in April 1940 he was appointed military district commissioner of the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Ammunition for military district IX .

Kränzlein played a decisive role in the construction of the Frankfurt "House of Technology" in 1941.

The University of Frankfurt am Main made him an honorary doctorate in 1933 (Dr. phil. Nat. Hc).

In 1937 Georg Kränzlein was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In December 1940, Adolf Hitler personally awarded him the War Merit Cross, Second Class, in the Reich Chancellery .

The chemist and later managing director of the Bunawerke Hüls and chairman of the German Rubber Society Paul Kränzlein (1912–1986) was his son.

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SURNAME Kränzlein, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and SS-Obersturmbannführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Wassertrüdingen
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1943
Place of death Frankfurt am Main