Helmut Wenck

Helmut Wenck (born June 2, 1935 in Leipzig ) is a German chemist .

Life

Wenck attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig until 1952 . After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry and mathematics at the University of Leipzig . He graduated with Herbert Staude and Günter Langhammer at the Institute for Physical Chemistry. Afterwards he was a chemistry teacher in Leipzig and worked for scientific publishers.

In 1960 he moved to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and studied applied chemistry, pharmacognosy and botany . In 1966 he was with Gustav Kortum at the Institute of Physical Chemistry to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . His dissertation topic was conductivity measurements on weak acids. From 1966 to 1974 he was a research assistant with Ferdinand Schneider at the Physiological-Chemical Institute in Tübingen. At the same time he worked as a lecturer at the Ludwigsburg University of Education .

In 1971 he was appointed full professor of chemistry and didactics of chemistry at the Pedagogical University of Westphalia-Lippe . In 1980 he became a full professor at Bielefeld University . From 1987 to 1988 and from 1997 to 2000 he was Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and a member of the Senate .

From 1987 to 1993 he was a member of the board of the Society for Didactics of Chemistry and Physics (GDCP).

Wenck lives in Holte-Stukenbrock Castle near Bielefeld. He is an assessor in the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia and ran for both the 17th German Bundestag (2009) and the 18th German Bundestag (2013) on a list of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia .

1989: Wolfgang and Manfred Flad Prize of the Society of German Chemists (for his contribution to the promotion of experimental school chemistry )

Conductivity measurements on weak acids in methanol-water mixtures and theoretical considerations as a contribution to the thermodynamics of electrolyte solutions . Dissertation, Tübingen 1966.
About the usefulness of the Fuoss-Kraus method and the additivity method according to Kohlrausch for the evaluation of conductivity measurements on weak acids in water-methanol mixtures. In: Reports of the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry 70 (1966) 4, 435-443. doi : 10.1002 / bbpc.19660700407 (currently not available) (together with Gustav Kortüm)
Mechanistic study of acyl transfer from thioesters to amino and imidazole groups. In: Helvetica Chimica Acta 56 (1973) 6, 2036-2044. doi : 10.1002 / hlca.19730560626 (together with Jürgen Polster)
Experimental chemistry of nucleic acids . (= Praxis publication series chemistry 48) Aulis Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7614-1199-5 . (in cooperation with Grit Kruska)
The experiment: ion-selective electrodes. In: Chemie in our time 23 (1989) 6, 207-209. doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.19890230605 (together with Kerstin Höner)
Vocational education in chemistry. In: Chemkon 3 (1996) 3, 113. doi : 10.1002 / ckon.19960030302
Catalysis - Biocatalysis . (= Praxis publication series chemistry 54) Aulis Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7614-2284-9 . (in cooperation with Kerstin Höner)
Biochemical fuel cells in a school chemistry experiment. In: Chemikon 8 (2001) 3, 138-142. doi : 10.1002 / ckon.20010080305 (together with Jean Marc Orth)