Heinrich Ruschig

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Heinrich Ruschig (born October 22, 1906 ; † after 1994) was a German chemist.

At the beginning of the 1960s he was head of the pharmaceutical-synthetic laboratories of the Hoechst paint factory, where he had been since 1935 (then IG Farben). In 1971 he retired. He also taught drug synthesis as an honorary professor at the University of Mainz.

In 1934 he succeeded in isolating progesterone with his doctoral supervisor Karl Slotta (1895–1987) in Breslau . Was also involved Erich Rock (1897-1981). This happened almost simultaneously with Willard Myron Allen (* 1904) and Oskar Wintersteiner (1898–1971) in the USA, Max Hartmann and Albert Wettstein in Switzerland, and Adolf Butenandt and the biochemist Ulrich Westphal who worked for him in Germany. In the 1960s, he succeeded in synthesizing the diuretic furosemide at Farbwerke Hoechst .

Ruschig last lived in Bad Soden am Taunus . In 1960 he received the Adolf von Baeyer Memorial Medal .

Fonts

  • with Gustav Ehrhart (Ed.): Medicines. Development, impact, presentation. 2 volumes. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1968.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in Wer ist Wer , Schmidt-Römhild 1994
  2. ↑ Ratmoko, Christina: So that the chemistry is right. The beginnings of the industrial production of female and male sex hormones 1914-1938 . Zurich: Chronos, 2010, p. 15.
  3. ↑ See Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , pp. 370, 374–377 and 393.
personal data
SURNAME Ruschig, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1906
DATE OF DEATH after 1994