Herbert Staude
Herbert Staude (born March 20, 1901 in Schmölln ; † August 28, 1983 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German chemist ( photochemistry , physical chemistry , electrochemistry ).
Education and US stay
Staude studied mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate on photochemistry ( monochromatic universal filters and their application ) in 1925 at the Max Le Blanc institute under Fritz Weigert (1876-1947 ). Staude then worked as an assistant to his doctoral supervisor until 1926, and then worked as a private assistant to Le Blanc until 1931. During this time he mainly dealt with thermodynamic issues. This was followed by a stay in the USA, where Staude worked as an industrial chemist for the AO Smith Steel Corporation in Milwaukee. For reasons of rationalization, however, this company dismissed all Germans again in 1932, so that Staude returned to Germany.
1930s until the end of the war
At first he worked again as assistant to Fritz Weigert. However, he was dismissed from the university as a Jewish scientist in 1933. Although Staude got a call to Wheaten College in Illinois in March 1933, he turned down this offer and in May 1933 went to Professor Robert Luther at the Photographic Institute in Dresden. Luther was one of Weigert's predecessors in the Leipzig photochemical department of the Physico-Chemical Institute. In Dresden Staude mainly dealt with photometric and sensitometric measurements and other topics of photochemistry and photography. Despite his membership in the National Socialist teachers' association , to which he belonged from 1934 to 1936, Staude had increasing problems in his professional development, also because he refused to join the SA and NSDAP. In 1936 he first moved to Siemens and Halske as a research assistant, and later worked at the Zeiss Ikon film factory . From this time until the end of the war Staude belonged to the NS-Bund Deutscher Technik . Thanks to an intercession by Max Volmer , he completed his habilitation in 1939 at the Technical University of Berlin ( contribution to the knowledge of the development process. The role of oxidation products ), but was only given a lectureship in physical chemistry at the Physical-Chemical Institute of the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg under Volmer in 1943. Due to the course of the war, this institute was relocated to Staude's native town of Schmölln, so that Staude was also located there at the end of the war.
post war period
In the course of the liberation of Schmölln by American troops, Staude was initially appointed mayor of his hometown. After the crew change on July 1, 1945, Staude returned to his familiar profession with the approval of the SMAD, he became head of the Schmöllner Oberschule and taught mathematics and chemistry. At the same time he took over the provisional management of the Institute for Scientific Photography at the TH Dresden as successor to Luther. In 1946 there was again contact with the Leipzig Institute for Physical Chemistry. Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer , who was preparing his move to the HU Berlin, played a decisive role in one of Staude's appointments . In December 1946, Herbert Staude was appointed as an extraordinary professor. When Bonhoeffer left Leipzig in early 1947, Staude took over his lecture and shortly afterwards was appointed professor for photochemistry and electrochemistry. In addition, he took over the management of the Institute for Physical Chemistry, initially on a temporary basis. This was rebuilt under Staude's leadership in the post-war period. In 1949 Staude was appointed professor with a chair in physical chemistry, and from 1951 he was also dean of the faculty of mathematics and natural sciences.
Relocation to West Germany
Then at the end of the 1950s it came to a decisive moment for him. After a senior assistant from his institute had fled the GDR , Staude was brought for interrogation by two members of the Ministry for State Security after a colloquium. The aim was that Staude would denounce potential refugees in the university in the future. Staude used a business trip to Austria to turn his back on the GDR himself. This step met with a very mixed response at the University of Leipzig, and in ignorance of the reasons it was also disapproved. Staude managed to quickly regain a foothold in university operations. First he got an honorary professorship at the Institute for Physics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1959 . In 1964 he was appointed professor of physical chemistry.
plant
He dealt with the photographic development process , but also passivation of metals, thermal diffusion, heat of mixing, kinetics of adsorption on electrodes.
Memberships and honors
In 1956 he became a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and was a corresponding member from 1959.
Fonts
- with Gerhard Stade: microphotography, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1939
- with Erich Stenger: Advances in Photography, Leipzig, Academic Publishing Company, Volumes 1 to 3, 1938, 1940, 1944
- Der Photographische Prozess, Leipzig, Fachbuchverlag 1953
- Photochemie, BI university pocket books, Mannheim, 1962, 2nd edition 1966
- Attempts on the nature of the latent image and its interpretation, Berlin, Akademie Verlag 1965
- Publisher: Physikalisch-Chemisches Taschenbuch, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 1945, 1949
literature
- Klaus Scherzer Herbert Staude - Notes on Life and Work , Bunsen Magazine 6/2001, pp. 163–165, and p. 166 Eberhard Staude memories
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Staude, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmoelln |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1983 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |