Gerhard Ruhenstroth-Bauer

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Gerhard Ruhenstroth-Bauer (1990)

Gerhard Ruhenstroth-Bauer (born June 2, 1913 in Opava / Austrian Silesia , † August 2, 2004 in Munich ) was a German biochemist and doctor .

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Ruhenstroth-Bauer studied chemistry at the Universities of Prague and Konigsberg and was founded in 1943 by the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Berlin Dr. rer. nat. PhD . His habilitation thesis for Dr. med. habil. it presented in 1951 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , where he then worked as a private lecturer . In 1957 he moved to the University of Munich , where he was appointed adjunct professor for experimental medicine in 1958. Ruhenstroth-Bauer was also a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and, from 1962 until his retirement in 1981, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried .

Gerhard Ruhenstroth-Bauer's name became known in popular science in connection with the answer to the question about milk souring during thunderstorms. Christoph Drösser quoted him in his Zeit column, right ? with the statement that so-called sferics are responsible for this.

During the Nazi era , Ruhenstroth-Bauer joined the NSDAP and the SS in 1938 and was a medical officer in the Luftwaffe during the Second World War . As Adolf Butenandt's assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry in Berlin, he carried out experiments on epileptic children from the Brandenburg-Görden psychiatric sanatorium. On behalf of the German Air Force, the consequences of a lack of oxygen were to be examined in a vacuum chamber.

In 1980 he was appointed a full member of the natural science class of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts in Munich.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Drösser: Is it true that milk can turn sour faster during a thunderstorm? . In: Die Zeit , No. 33 of August 12, 1998.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 514.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Schieder , Achim Trunk (Ed.): Adolf Butenandt and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Science, industry and politics in the “Third Reich” (History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism, Vol. 7). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-752-7 .
  4. ^ Claudia Schwartz : The pragmatic career of Adolf Butenandt. Science Policy in and after the Third Reich . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from August 18, 2004.

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SURNAME Ruhenstroth-Bauer, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Gerhard Ruhenstroth-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 2004
Place of death Munich