Gerold Wünsch

Gerold Wünsch (born June 14, 1938 in Aussig ; † April 23, 2010 ) was a German chemist who was the head of the Analytical Chemistry department at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at Leibniz University in Hanover .

Wünsch studied at the University of Münster , where he received his doctorate under Fritz Umland and completed his habilitation. He became a professor in Münster and from 1986 at the University of Hanover. In Hanover, he set up a master's degree in analytics, which many foreign students also completed. In 1999/2000 he was the managing director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry.

He dealt with the analytical chemistry of high-purity metals (ultra-trace analysis, trace-matrix separation), with environmental and water analysis (including further development of the Karl Fischer method ) and the development of expert systems in analysis. He worked closely with industry (Riedel-de-Haen, Plansee Reutte, HC Starck) and the German Institute for Rubber Technology and the Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Aerosol Research.

He also published on philosophical problems in chemistry.

Fonts

• Introduction to the Philosophy of Chemistry, Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2000
• with Fritz Umland, Anton Janssen, Detlef Thierig: Theory and practical application of complexing agents, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankf./M 1971
• with Fritz Umland: Characteristic reactions of inorganic substances, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Aula Verlag 1991
• Editor with Fritz Umland: Elements of the Third Main Group Boron, Handbook of Analytical Chemistry, Third Part, Quantitative Determination and Separation Methods, 2nd edition, Springer 1971
• Elements of the Sixth Main Group Wolfram, Handbuch der Analytischen Chemie, Springer 1978
• Optical analysis methods for the determination of inorganic substances, Göschen Collection, De Gruyter 1976

Web links

• Obituary by Peter Behrens, April 29, 2010, University of Hanover, PDF