Hans Goldschmidt (chemist)

obituary

Johannes Wilhelm Goldschmidt (born January 18, 1861 in Berlin ; † May 20, 1923 in Baden-Baden ) was a German chemist and the inventor of the thermite process .

Life

Hans Goldschmidt was the second son of Theodor Goldschmidt and Johanna Sophie Luise Goldschmidt born. Koner. He attended grammar school in Altenburg and studied chemistry, first in Berlin from 1882 and then, like his older brother Karl Goldschmidt , with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1886 . After receiving his doctorate, he took over the management of his father's company, Chemische Fabrik Th. Goldschmidt . The thermite process developed by him in 1894 , which enabled the simple production of carbon-free metals such as iron , chromium and manganese , is still regarded worldwide as a standard method for welding rail and tram tracks that is unsurpassed in quality . In 1916 he moved from the executive board to the supervisory board , which he left at the end of 1917 and thus retired from the company's management. From 1918 until his death, he ran a research workshop with a welding and carpentry shop in Paulinenaue as a landowner .

After his death during a cure in Baden-Baden, he found his final resting place in the Protestant cemetery of the Berlin Jerusalem and New Church Community I , in Dept. 3/1.

Goldschmidt was a patron of the Essen Art Museum and one of the presidents of the German Chemical Society .

literature

Maria Curter: inventor of the thermite welding process. The chemist Hans Goldschmidt (1861–1923) . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 8, 1998, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 47-49 ( luise-berlin.de ).
Walter Däbritz, Barbara Gerstein: Goldschmidt, Johann (Hans) Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 609 ( digitized version ).
Ludwig Schertel: Karl (1857–1926) and Hans Goldschmidt (1861–1923). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien , Volume 8. Aschendorff, Münster 1962, pp. 94–122.

Web links

Biography of Hans Goldschmidt. Evonik Industries AG, Chemicals Business Area ; formerly Goldschmidt AG

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d F. Haber: Hans Goldschmidt . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society . tape 56 , no. 8 , 1923, pp. A77-A79 , doi : 10.1002 / cber.19230560867 .
^ Goldschmidt, Hans in the German biography
↑ Hans Goldschmidt: About a new process for the representation of metals and alloys by means of aluminum . In: Justus Liebig's Annals of Chemistry . tape 301 , no. 1 , 1898, p. 19-28 , doi : 10.1002 / jlac.18983010103 .

personal data
SURNAME	Goldschmidt, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goldschmidt, Johannes Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1923
Place of death	Baden-Baden

[ChemBer1923_76-1] F. Haber: Hans Goldschmidt . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society . tape 56 , no. 8 , 1923, pp. A77-A79 , doi : 10.1002 / cber.19230560867 .

[deutsche-756373-2] Goldschmidt, Hans in the German biography

[AnnChem1898_19-3] Hans Goldschmidt: About a new process for the representation of metals and alloys by means of aluminum . In: Justus Liebig's Annals of Chemistry . tape 301 , no. 1 , 1898, p. 19-28 , doi : 10.1002 / jlac.18983010103 .