Hans Lindenhayn

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Hans Julius Richard Lindenhayn (born July 8, 1878 in Leipzig , † 1970 ) was a German manor owner and industrialist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Döbeln, Hans Lindenhayn studied chemistry and economics at the Dresden University of Technology and the universities of Leipzig, Geneva, Florence and Jena. In 1901 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Jena . In 1903 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. He then did practical work at companies in the textile and leather industry and did scientific work at the Institute for Dairy Industry in Kiel and at the Institute for Fermentation Industry in Berlin. In 1908 he joined his father's company Knab & Lindenhayn . In 1910 he became their partner and in 1913 their sole owner. Later he was co-owner and member of the supervisory board of Byk-Guldenwerke , Chemische Fabrik AG in Berlin, in which Knab & Lindenhayn had merged.

Lindenhayn switched his father's company from the production of colored wood extracts to the production of lactic acid and lactic acid salts according to processes he invented, which were used in the leather, textile and luxury food industries. Lindenhayn took part in the First World War as a battalion and brigade adjutant. In 1921 he acquired the Otzdorf manor in Döbeln-Land and worked in agriculture. He was still the owner of the company Dampfziegelei Niederstriegis Dr. Hans Lindenhayn and has chaired agricultural, industrial and social organizations.

Awards

  • Iron Keuz 2nd class
  • Prussian and Saxon war awards

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the diazo compounds , 1903
  • About diazobenzolimides
  • Agricultural produce from the United States of America
  • The Otzdorf manor and its stone chronicle , 1924
  • Various writings on American and German poultry farming

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 26 , 517
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 124 , 554