Heinrich Remy

Heinrich Gerhard Everhard Remy (born September 20, 1890 in Weeze , † November 27, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German chemist and professor .

In 1914 he did his doctorate under Ernst Hermann Riesenfeld in Freiburg and in 1914 became an assistant in Gießen. It followed 1914-1918 military service. 1918–1922 he was an assistant / private lecturer in Göttingen. In 1920 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen. From 1922 Remy was an associate professor for inorganic chemistry at the State Chemical Institute of the University of Hamburg , Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, where he received a chair in 1946. At the time of National Socialism , Remy became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 . On November 11, 1933, he signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities .

His field of work included the chemistry of iron - fluorine compounds, phosphorus chemistry , work on catalysts , coordination compounds and questions of the nomenclature of inorganic compounds. He became known for his two-volume textbook on inorganic chemistry, which had 13 or 14 editions.

Since 1910 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau .

literature

• Pötsch, Lexicon of important chemists , Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut and Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Harry Deutsch 1988, p. 360.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Krause, Eduard Johannes Ernst Vietinghoff-Scheel: Chemiker-Zeitung / Chemische Apparatur, Volume 84, Page 611, A. Hüthig, 1960
2. ^ Siegfried Engels, Rüdiger Stolz: ABC History of Chemistry, page 336, Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindindustrie, 1989
3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 491
4. ↑ [1]
5. ↑ Heinrich Remy: Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry. Volumes I and II, Academic Publishing Company Geest & Portig, 12th and 13th editions, Leipzig 1973.

Web links

• Short biography and list of publications at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg