Heinrich Hörlein

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Heinrich Hörlein (1953)

Philipp Heinrich Hörlein (born June 5, 1882 in Wendelsheim in Rheinhessen , † May 23, 1954 in Wuppertal ) was a German chemist, entrepreneur, university professor and military economist during the National Socialist era .

Live and act

Bayer

Hörlein was the son of the farmer Heinrich Hörlein and his wife Philippina (née Dürk). In 1900 he began studying chemistry at the University of Darmstadt . In 1902 he moved to the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he received his doctorate under Ludwig Knorr the following year . In the following years he worked as a research assistant at Knorr until he moved to Bayer in 1909 in the scientific laboratory, which he took over as head in 1911. In this position he succeeded in developing the sleeping pill Luminal , which still plays an important role in the therapy of epilepsy today. In 1914 he received power of attorney , became deputy director and finally deputy board member at Bayer.

As head of pharmaceutical research at Bayer, he hired Gerhard Domagk to establish a new research area in Wuppertal-Elberfeld - experimental pathology and bacteriology. They were both convinced that they could fight bacterial diseases chemically. Domagk was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1939 for his work in the field. He previously taught at the University of Jena.

Hörlein, who was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1926 , became honorary professor in Düsseldorf in 1932 and joined the NSDAP in 1933 . In 1934 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

IG Farben and the time of National Socialism

After the founding of IG Farben , he became a deputy member of the board there in 1926 and from 1931 a full member of the board. He was director of the IG-Farben plant in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, where he was involved in the development of tabun , sarin and soman . He was chairman of the supervisory board of Behringwerke Marburg and the German Society for Pest Control (Degesch). In October 1939 he took part in a meeting on poison gas production at the Army Weapons Office and from 1941 onwards he served as military manager . From 1939 he was senator of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

post war period

Hörlein during the IG Farben process

After his arrest by members of the US Army on August 16, 1945 , he was acquitted on all charges in the IG Farben trial on July 30, 1948. He then became head of the Elberfeld plant again. In 1952 he became chairman of the supervisory board of the Bayer paint factories and a senator at the Max Planck Society . In 1954 he became an honorary professor at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. He died in Wuppertal in May of the same year. In 1958, his wife Marie Hörlein first donated the Hörlein Prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, which is intended for major scientific work in the field of human medicine.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milestones in the history of Bayer AG, Wuppertal , p. 272.
  2. ↑ a b c d Wollheim Memorial - Biography of Heinrich Hörlein .
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 263.
  4. ↑ Hörlein Prize ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unifreunde-duesseldorf.de
  5. ↑ Heinrich-Hörlein-Str. .

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SURNAME Hörlein, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hörlein, Philipp Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and university professor for medicine
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wendelsheim in Rheinhessen
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1954
Place of death Wuppertal