Helmut Behrens (chemist)
Helmut Behrens (born May 30, 1915 in Elsfleth ; † March 4, 2000 in Munich ) was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen - Nuremberg .
Life
After graduating from high school in Oldenburg , Behrens began studying chemistry in Freiburg im Breisgau in the summer semester of 1933 , but then switched to the TH Munich in the winter semester due to incipient National Socialist tendencies in Freiburg , where he finished his studies in 1938 as a graduate engineer. It was established in 1940 with a dissertation on metal carbonyls doctorate , his mentor was Walter Hieber . The exact topic of the doctoral thesis was: To know how nickel and cobalt carbonyl are formed . In the same year he married Liselotte-Marie Diess, the daughter of the lawyer and writer Wilhelm Diess . Approval to marry Liselotte Diess, who was considered a quarter Jew at the time , was not granted, which is why Behrens had to give up his assistant position and Walter Hieber received an employee contract from third-party funds.
Behrens completed his habilitation in 1948 with a new laboratory method for the preparation of cobalt carbonyl hydrogen and the chemistry of metal carbonyls in liquid ammonia and in 1960 he became an associate professor at the Technical University of Munich. In 1962 he accepted a position as full professor and head of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Here he initiated and managed the spacious new building of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, which was opened in 1972 and at the same time, together with the Institutes for Physical and Technical Chemistry, represented a nucleus for today's technical faculty, of which he was a founding member.
In 1979 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Rennes for his services to the close partnership between the Friedrich Alexander University and the University of Rennes , which can be traced back to his initiative.
The Technical University of Munich awarded him the gold doctoral certificate in 1990.
Prof. Behrens died on March 4, 2000 in Munich and was buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery.
Works
- Science in turbulent times - a chemist's memories of the Technical University of Munich 1933-1953 . ISBN 3-89241-026-7
- More than 200 publications on organometallic complex chemistry with a focus on metal-carbon monoxide compounds
Web links
- Literature by and about Helmut Behrens in the catalog of the German National Library
- FAU-AKTUELL media service no.2049 (from March 8, 2000)
- Günther Rienäcker, Josef Goubeau, Harald Schäfer: Professor Helmut Behrens on his 65th birthday on May 30, 1980. In: Journal for inorganic and general chemistry. 464, 1980, p. 7, doi : 10.1002 / zaac.19804640102 .
- Bogenhauser cemetery
- Brief descriptions of the 25th Algorism Booklet
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Behrens, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elsfleth |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 2000 |
| Place of death | Munich |