Hans-Heinz Emons

Hans-Heinz Emons (right) meets Jürgen Möllemann (left) in 1990

Hans-Heinz Emons (born June 1, 1930 in Herford ) is a German chemist . He was rector of the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg and the Bergakademie Freiberg as well as Minister for Education and Youth of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Hans-Heinz Emons, member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (GDR) since 1949, studied chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden from 1949 to 1954 . After receiving his doctorate in 1957 and his habilitation five years later, he became a professor in 1964 and at the same time director of the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Mineral Salts at the Technical University "Carl Schorlemmer" Leuna-Merseburg .

From 1966 to 1968 he was dean of the chemical faculty and from 1968 to 1975 rector of this university, succeeding Hans-Joachim Bittrich . His successor in office was Gert Naue . After his rectorate period, Emons was appointed professor at the Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony and was rector there from 1982 to 1988.

At the same time, Hans-Heinz Emons was a member of the SED district leadership in Halle from 1969 to 1979 , a member of the Pugwash group of the GDR and a member and in 1988 vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1970 he received the National Prize of the GDR and in 1984 an honorary doctorate from the Montan University Leoben as well as an honorary doctorate from the Technical University "Carl Schorlemmer" Leuna-Merseburg . A year later he was accepted into the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences in Trondheim and in 1987 as a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . During the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR he was in the Modrow government from November 1989 until the first free Volkskammer elections in March 1990 as Minister for Education and Youth of the GDR. One of his first official acts was the suspension of Saturday classes at general schools in the GDR.

He is a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin and a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig .

Publications

• The extraction and processing of inorganic salts in the context of global development. Meeting report of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Math.-nat. Kl., Volume 131, Issue 6. S. Hirzel, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2010.

literature

• Klaus-Peter Meinecke, Dieter Hoffmann :  Emons, Hans-Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

1. ↑ Manuela Raser: East German teachers in the transformation process , p. 6. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Heinz Emons in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hans-Heinz Emons in the Saxon Bibliography
• Hans-Heinz Emons: Salts in the Middle Kingdom. SES projects in China. Lecture to the natural sciences class of the Leibniz Society on September 8, 2005. (PDF; 3.0 MB) See: Hans-Heinz Emons recommended the process for the production of potash fertilizer in the Lop Nor desert.
• Plenary lectures and publications in the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.
• Salt Formers. Lothar Kolditz on his 80th birthday . (PDF; 2.0 MB) Lecture at the plenary meeting of the Leibniz Society of Sciences Berlin, October 8, 2009.