Hans Sachsse

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Hans Sachsse (born December 29, 1906 in Elberfeld , † March 31, 1992 in Wiesbaden ) was a German chemist and technology philosopher.

Career

Sachsse studied in Tübingen , Bonn and Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1929. He received his PhD with a thesis on the characterization of proteins by electrochemical affinity determinations , which was published in 1931. From 1928 to 1933 he worked, with a one-year break, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, headed by Fritz Haber . He later went to Göttingen to work with the physical chemist Arnold Eucken . There he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the thermal decay of ethane . He worked in the chemical industry for 25 years, from 1935 to 1949 at BASF , then from 1949 to 1957 in a managerial position at the Waldhof pulp company and finally from 1957 to 1960 at Farbwerke Hoechst AG . Since 1960 he has taught physical chemistry and technical chemistry at the University of Mainz .

Sachsse invented and developed a petrochemical process for the production of acetylene by incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons with oxygen. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote influential books on cybernetics and the importance of technology for culture. Technology is an umzu-Weg in the sense of an organic addition to the achievement of goals: we make what we perceive clearer than it is so that we can decide what to do; we perceive the repetitive, the constant and can orient ourselves in this way; we perceive what is rapidly changing, which may indicate danger.

Publications

  • Introduction to natural philosophy. Vol. 1: Knowledge of nature and reality Vol. 2. The knowledge of living things. Braunschweig: Vieweg 1967 and 1968 ISBN 3528082674 .
  • The portrait: Fritz Haber 1868-1934 , in: Chemistry in our time , October 1968, pages 145-148.
  • Technology and responsibility. Problems of ethics in the technical age. Freiburg: Verlag Rombach, 1972 ISBN 3793009610 .
  • Introduction to cybernetics with special consideration of technical and biological effect structures Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1971 and 1985 ISBN 3528035390 and Reinbek 1974 ISBN 3499270013 .
  • (Ed.): Possibilities and standards for planning research , published on behalf of the Society for Responsibility in Science, Munich, Vienna: Oldenbourg 1974, ISBN 978-3-486-47791-7 .
  • Anthropology of technology. A contribution to the position of man in the world. Braunschweig: Vieweg 1978 ISBN 3528083778 .
  • Ecological philosophy: nature, technology, society . Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1984 ISBN 3534090268 .
  • Causality - legality - probability. The history of basic categories for dealing with the world , 2nd edition Darmstadt 1987. ISBN 3534074815 .

Appreciation

Amán Rosales Rodríguez wrote an appreciation of Hans Sachsse's biological-cybernetic approach: Cultura y técnica: Una aproximación al pensamiento antropológico de Hans Sachsse .

Honors

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  1. ↑ see entry in the DNB at http://d-nb.info/571136117
  2. ↑ see Sachsse: Das Portrait: Fritz Haber 1868-1934 , in: Chemistry in our time, October 1968, pages 145-148, here page 148
  3. ↑ [1] , archived version accessed on September 3, 2019
  4. ↑ Hans Sachsse: Technology and responsibility. Freiburg: Verlag Rombach, 1972.
  5. ↑ In: "Chemie Ingenieur Technik", May 1954, 26 (5): pp. 245-253.
  6. ↑ Hans Sachsse: Introduction to Cybernetics, p. 172
  7. ↑ Amán Rosales Rodríguez: CULTURA Y TÉCNICA: UNA APROXIMACIÓN AL PENSAMIENTO ANTROPOLÓGICO DE HANS SACHSSE ( Memento from June 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Sachsse, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1992
Place of death Wiesbaden