Hartwig Höcker

Franz Heinrich Hartwig Höcker (born October 18, 1937 in Halle , Westphalia ) is a professor emeritus for textile chemistry and macromolecular chemistry at RWTH Aachen University .

life and work

Hartwig hump studied chemistry and in 1965 at the University of Mainz in Werner Kern with the work Radiographic analyzes of oligourethanes and oligophenylenes doctorate . After a two-year stay at Stanford University in California, he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz in 1972. After stints in Mainz, Munich and Bayreuth, he was appointed to the Chair of Textile Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University in 1985, which he held until 2002. From 1986 to 2003 he was also director of the German Wool Research Institute at RWTH Aachen eV at RWTH Aachen. His successor in both positions is Martin Möller .

During his activity as professor and director of the DWI, Höcker supervised 200 doctorates. More than 50 patents and more than 400 publications were developed with his participation and design. As a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences , he initiated many collaborations with engineering and medicine. The Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF) at the University Hospital Aachen emerged from one of these collaborations.

Awards

Höcker is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech .

• 2005: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2010: Georg Menges Prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Hartwig Höcker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Heinrich Hartwig Höcker at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Chair of Textile Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Hartwig hump at academictree.org, accessed on February 12 2018th