Heinrich Specketer

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Heinrich Specketer (born February 23, 1873 in Schweringen , † February 22, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German chemist and manager.

Life

After attending the Domgymnasium Verden , Specketer studied chemistry at the Eberhard Karls University from 1894 . In 1884 he was reciprocated in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . As an inactive, he moved to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1899, Specketer became a chemist at the Griesheim-Elektron chemical factory . His field of activity included the development of aluminum production in electrochemistry. He developed a process for the production of magnetite electrodes, together with Gustav Pistor and others in Bitterfeld, the aluminum smelting electrolysis and he developed methods to extract aluminum oxide from clay deposits. He improved the production of nitric acid, set up a plant for zinc production in Cologne and developed a process for breaking down chrome ores. He was then scientific director of all four Elektron plants. On January 1, 1915, he became a member of the board. During the First World War he was responsible for the construction of new production facilities in the various factories of the group. With the connection of Griesheim-Elektron in 1925, Specketer became a board member of IG Farbenindustrie AG .

Awards

  • In the First World War Heinrich Specketer was awarded the Iron Cross II class on the white and black ribbon.
  • The Chemistry Department at the Technical University of Stuttgart awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1923 as a Dr.-Ing. e. H. “In recognition of his outstanding services as an inventor and technical organizer in the field of applied electrochemistry and metallurgy” .

Fonts

  • Production of chromium compounds and alkalies, 1901 (US Patent 728778)
  • Manufacture of alkali metals, 1902 (US patent 730979, together with Oskar H. Weber)
  • Methods for producing electrodes, 1903 (US Patent 800181)
  • Manufacture of alkali metals, 1910 (US patent 1034320, together with Wilhelm Hofmann)
  • Production of anhydrous hydrosulfites from aqueous hydrosulfite solutions, 1913 (US Patent 1156107, together with Gustav Münch)
  • Methods of producing nitrogen compounds, 1922 (US patent 1409124)
  • Production of pure alumina, 1922 (US patent 1519880, together with Gustav Münch and Fritz Rossteutscher)
  • Producing aluminum fluoride-alkali metal fluoride double compounds practically free of iron, 1923 (US patent 1548639, together with Julius Söll and Robert Bilfinger)
  • Process for producing artificial cryolite free from iron, from aluminum-salt solutions containing iron, 1925 (US Patent 1563536)
  • Process for the manufacture of pure alumina, 1927 (US patent 1931515, together with Fritz Rossteutscher and Konrad Rosenberger)
  • Apparatus for charging, discharging and turning of the material in rotar-hearth furnaces, 1931 (US patent 1993688, together with Ludwig Hebeler)

literature

  • Specketer, Heinrich. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1807.
  • Philip Siedler: Heinrich Specketer. In memoriam. † February 22, 1933 . In: Angewandte Chemie , Volume 46, Issue 17, pp. 239-240, April 29, 1933
  • Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 127/191
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About a quantitative method of separating the halogens chlorine, bromine and iodine .
  3. ↑ Dirk Hackenholz: The electrochemical works in Bitterfeld 1914-1945 , 2004, p. 94
  4. ↑ Miscellaneous In Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 43, No. 17/18 (February 28, 1923), p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Specketer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweringen
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1933
Place of death Frankfurt am Main