Hansjürgen Staudinger

Hansjürgen Staudinger (born November 18, 1914 in Zurich ; † January 6, 1990 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German biochemist and university professor .

Life

After completing his school career, Staudinger studied chemistry at the Universities of Königsberg , Göttingen , Munich and Freiburg . In Freiburg doctorate Staudinger with the 1940 published dissertation About Halogenated derivatives of rubber hydrocarbon Dr. rer nat.

During the Second World War , Staudinger headed the chemical department under Franz Büchner at the Freiburg Institute for Aviation Medical Pathology of the Reich Aviation Ministry from 1941 . At that time, his main focus was on refrigeration research. Staudinger took part in the conference on medical issues in distress at sea and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942, where a lecture was also given on the "attempts at hypothermia" in the Dachau concentration camp . He completed his habilitation in Freiburg with the work on natural glycogens published in February 1946 . He also completed preclinical medical studies in Freiburg .

After the end of the war, Staudinger was a senior chemist at Asta-Werke AG in Brackwede . From 1948 Staudinger headed the central laboratory at the Mannheim City Hospitals as chief physician. In addition, he was a private lecturer at the University of Heidelberg and was appointed adjunct professor there in 1955. In 1959 Staudinger moved to the University of Giessen as a full professor of physiological chemistry, where he also headed the Physiological-Chemical Institute as director. Staudinger made a particular contribution to research into clinical chemistry.

Memberships

NS Student Union (1934)
NS-Reichsbund for physical exercises (1938)
NS-Altherrenbund (1938)
National Socialist Federation of German Technology (1942)
Nazi People's Welfare (1943)
Member of the Senate and temporarily Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Honors

Awarded the Johann Joseph Scherer Medal by the German Society for Clinical Chemistry (1980)
Large Merit (1975)
Honorary Senator of the University of Giessen (1977)

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Vol. 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, pp. 929–946 (pdf; 1.8 MB)

Web links

Literature by and about Hansjürgen Staudinger in the catalog of the German National Library
Hansjürgen Staudinger in the original sound in the online archive "Österreich am Wort" of the Austrian media library (Salzburg night studio)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Helga Kersten: Awarded the Scherer Medal to Hansjürgen Staudinger . In: Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Vol. 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, pp. 929ff
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 597

personal data
SURNAME	Staudinger, Hansjürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biochemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1990
Place of death	Freiburg in Breisgau

[Kersten929f-1] Helga Kersten: Awarded the Scherer Medal to Hansjürgen Staudinger . In: Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Vol. 18, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, pp. 929ff

[Klee597-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 597