Hermann Salmang

Hermann Salmang (born March 18, 1890 in Aachen , † September 27, 1961 in Breisgau ) was a German chemist and metallurgist .

Life

Hermann Salmang was the son of Eilendorf master butcher Mayer Salmang (1859–1925) and Rosa, née Windmüller (* 1860) from Lippstadt . After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry and metallurgy at the local Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen , where he was then taken on as an assistant and received his doctorate in 1915. After two years of service as a chemist in a hydrogen gas factory in Düsseldorf , he moved to the Western Front as a war volunteer , from which he returned with EK I and EK II .

After his war deployment, Salmang was accepted again at RWTH Aachen University, where he completed his habilitation in 1926 and was given a position as a lecturer in iron and steel engineering, as well as combustion engineering and refractory building materials. In 1928 he took over the management of the institute for rock metallurgy, which was affiliated on his initiative, and was finally appointed associate professor on August 18, 1930. Two years later he became a Scientific Member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate Research in Berlin and was also elected to the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Most of his numerous publications were created during this time.

In the spring of 1933, denunciations of the student body also began at RWTH Aachen University . The ASTA ( General Student Committee ) and the student leaders sent the denunciation committee specially appointed for this purpose, consisting of Hermann Bonin , Hubert Hoff , Felix Rötscher , Adolf Wallichs , and Robert Hans Wentzel, about which of the lecturers and professors were not of Aryan descent and were supposed to be or actually had an undesirable political attitude. According to the law for the restoration of the civil service due to his Jewish origin, Salmang was supposed to work with Professors Otto Blumenthal , Walter Maximilian Fuchs , Arthur Guttmann , Ludwig Hopf , Theodore von Kármán , Paul Ernst Levy , Karl Walter Mautner , Alfred Meusel , Leopold Karl Pick , Rudolf Ruer , and Ludwig Strauss from September 1933 their teaching permits were withdrawn. After a petition from his incumbent rector Paul Röntgen to the Reich Commissioner in the Ministry of Education Bernhard Rust to be allowed to keep Salmang for the further implementation of his research assignment, his dismissal was suspended until revoked, but Salmang nevertheless preferred to be in the In 1938 he resigned and emigrated to the Netherlands. Here he took over the management of the Maastricht porcelain factory, but had to repeatedly evade the Gestapo with the help of friends .

In 1950 Salmang applied for and received Dutch citizenship and returned to RWTH Aachen University and joined the Max Planck Society in 1954 . For his services he was awarded the Seger plaque of the German Ceramic Society in 1955 and the Otto Schott commemorative coin of the German Glass Technology Society in 1960 .

Salmang died in a car accident on September 27, 1961 while driving to Breisgau. Today the Hermann Salmang Porcelain Commemorative Medal, awarded from 1978 onwards, commemorates him, as does a portrait and the name of a lecture hall in the Institute of Mineral Engineering.

Works (selection)

• About the formation of ammonia in the gasification of coke and coals by steam and air ; Aachen, 1914
• The role of water in deforming clays ; Coburg, Müller & Schmidt, 1926
• Reflections on the causes of the malleable state of clays ; Coburg, Müller & Schmidt, 1928
• The Institute for Mineral Engineering at the Technical University of Aachen ; Coburg, Müller & Schmidt, 1928
• Clay and water ; Dresden, Verlag Theodor Steinkopff , 1929
• Investigations into the properties of fired clay-alumina mixtures under different firing conditions ; Coburg, Müller & Schmidt, 1929
• Manufacture of slag-resistant devices from magnesia and clay; Düsseldorf , Verlag Stahleisen, 1933
• The physical and chemical basics of ceramics ; Berlin, Julius Springer, 1933
• The oxidation levels of iron in slag as a function of chemical composition, temperature and furnace atmosphere ; Düsseldorf, Verlag Stahleisen, 1934
• The physical and chemical basics of glass manufacturing ; Berlin, Springer, 1957

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Ing. Hermann Salmang in the biographical database of the Historical Institute of RWTH (Chair for Modern History) / RWTH University Archives
• Remembering the Expelled Professors