Georg Schroeter (chemist)
Georg Schroeter (born May 10, 1869 in Passenheim , East Prussia , † October 14, 1943 in Berlin ) had been Professor of Chemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin since 1910 .
During his studies he became a member of the Fidelitas Karlsruhe Landsmannschaft in 1888/89 .
Together with Hugo Haehn , he developed a technical process for the production of petroleum substitute ( tetralin ) during the First World War .
With the integration of the University of Veterinary Medicine into the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in 1934 , the name of the institute headed by Schroeter changed to "Institute for Veterinary Chemistry". In 1935 Schroeter retired.
His sister was the art historian Marie Luise Gothein .
Schroeter received his doctorate from the University of Bonn as an academic student of Richard Anschütz .
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Schroeter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biogram of the Veterinary Medicine Library of the Free University of Berlin (with images)
Individual evidence
- ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 125.
- ^ Entry by Georg Schroeter in Deutsche Biographie , accessed on November 17, 2017.
- ^ Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organische Chemie , Verlag Chemie Weinheim, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 478, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schroeter, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schroeter, Emil Bruno Victor Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Passenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1943 |
| Place of death | Berlin |