Gustav Wilmanns

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Gustav Wilmanns (born October 8, 1881 in Bremen , † January 14, 1965 in Schönberg / Taunus ) was a German chemist and developer of the multi-layer color film .

Gustav Wilmanns (1881–1965), head of the team that worked out the Agfacolor Neu process, around 1940
"Technical and Scientific Department" of the Wolfen film factory, in which the Agfacolor Neu process was developed; Sitting in front, 3rd from right, the head of the team, G. Wilmanns, standing in the top row, 2nd from right, W. Schneider, around 1938
The bronze plaque of honor "The inventors of the Agfacolor process" unveiled in 1942 in the Ufa film city of Potsdam-Babelsberg. The tablet is now lost.

Life

The son of the old Hanseatic family of merchants and scholars, Wilmanns, studied chemistry at the Universities of Bonn , Heidelberg University and Hanover University , where he received his doctorate. He then got a job as a chemist in the laboratory of the paint department at Agfa Berlin. In 1910 he was transferred to the AGFA's Wolfen film factory . There he worked as a department head in the emulsion factory and in the foundry and in 1922 became director of the photo production department.

In this function he and Wilhelm Schneider played a key role in the development of the first multi-layer color film ( Agfa Color process ), which came onto the market in 1936 as reversal cine film. Wilmanns retired in 1940.

family

Gustav Wilmanns' father was a merchant and partner in various trading houses in Durango, Torreón and Honolulu . His mother Ottilie Delius was the daughter of the textile entrepreneur and landowner Heinrich Anton Delius , who worked temporarily in Mexico and came from the Versmold dynasty of linen traders. Gustav Wilmanns was a brother of the psychiatrist Karl Wilmanns .

The lawyer and member of the Reichstag Karl Wilmanns , the ancient historian Gustav Heinrich Wilmanns and the Germanist Wilhelm Wilmanns were brothers of his father Franz Rudolph Florenz.

The doctor Richard and the history didactician Ernst Wilmanns were cousins ​​of Gustav Wilmanns. Their father Hilmar, consul and merchant in Durango, was a brother of Gustav Wilmann's father.

Honors

literature

  • Harald Mediger: A Life for Photography, Dr. Gustav Wilmanns on his 80th birthday, Chem. Ind. XIII / November 1961, pp. 723/724

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KniPPsen: Photo Pioneers
  2. ↑ Direct lineage from Peter Gustav Wilmanns ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Website of the Wilmanns family: Wilmannsstrassen
  4. ↑ Harald Mediger was head of the patent department at the Wolfen film factory from the 1930s to 1945
personal data
SURNAME Wilmanns, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and developer of multi-layer color film
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1965
Place of death Schönberg / Taunus