Hans Beyer
Hans Beyer (born October 6, 1905 in Berlin ; † February 1, 1971 there ) was a German chemist and professor.
Life
After graduating from the Friedrichs-Werderschen Oberrealschule Berlin, where Friedrich Wöhler had already been a chemistry teacher, Hans Beyer studied chemistry and received his doctorate in 1932 under Hermann Leuchs . In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP and the SA . In 1939 he completed his habilitation under Hermann Leuchs in Berlin and became a lecturer. During the Second World War he was on the Eastern Front and was taken prisoner by the Soviets as a first lieutenant in Stalingrad . There he became a member of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD) and attended an Antifa school .
In 1947 he was dismissed and received a professorship with a teaching position for organic chemistry in Greifswald . In 1951 he received a chair for organic chemistry and was rector of the University of Greifswald from 1950 to 1954 . For the NDPD block party , of which he had been a member since 1948, he sat from 1954 to 1958 in the People's Chamber of the GDR .
1961 to 1963 he was chairman of the chemical society of the GDR .
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His area of expertise was heterocycles . He was best known for his textbook on organic chemistry , which was first published in 1953. Beyer wanted to entrust Ehrenfried Bulka with the continuation of the work. Due to the political circumstances, this was ultimately not possible for him, as the GDR leadership in 1971 forbade all employees of the Institute for Organic Chemistry in Greifswald to continue working on the work. From 1971 the textbook was therefore continued by Wolfgang Walter until his death in 2005, now Wittko Francke is responsible for the work. It has now reached its 25th edition.
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver, 1956
- Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal
- August Kekulé Medal of the Chemical Society of the GDR 1965
Works
- The oxidation and bromination products of tetrahydrostrychnine and its acetyl derivatives (dissertation Berlin 1932)
- About the syntheses of aromatically substituted acids: a contribution to the Friedel-Crafts reaction of lactones and acid anhydrides (Habilitation Berlin 1939)
- Textbook of Organic Chemistry (1st edition 1953)
literature
- Investigation Committee of Freedom Jurists (ed.): Former National Socialists in Pankow's service , Berlin-Zehlendorf, undated [1960], p. 10 (with portrait photo).
- Annemarie Hetzheim: In memoriam Hans Beyer (1905–1971). In: News from chemistry . 53 (10 )/2005. Wiley, pp. 1025-1027, ISSN 1439-9598
- Short biography for: Beyer, Hans . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Beyer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 46.
- ^ Hans Beyer and Wolfgang Walter : Textbook of Organic Chemistry , S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart, 2004, ISBN 3-7776-1221-9 , S. XII.
- ↑ Hans Beyer, Wittko Francke and Wolfgang Walter : Organische Chemie , 25th edition, S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 3-7776-1673-7 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Rudolf Gross | Rector of the University of Greifswald 1950/54 |
Gerhardt Katsch |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beyer, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beyer, Hans Hermann Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and politician (NSDAP, NDPD), MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st February 1971 |
| Place of death | Berlin |