Horst Böhme (chemist)

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Johann Friedrich Horst Böhme (born May 30, 1908 in Bernau near Berlin , † July 27, 1996 in Arolsen ) was a German pharmacist and chemist. He was Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Rector of the University of Marburg.

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Böhme comes from an old family of pharmacists. From 1929 he studied pharmacy and chemistry at the University of Munich, where, among others, the Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Wieland and the professor of inorganic chemistry Otto Hönigschmid were his teachers. In November 1933 Böhme joined the SA, which he left again in 1935 due to illness. He received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1934 . His doctoral supervisor was Kurt Bodendorf (1898–1976). The departure of his mentor Bodendorf, who followed a call to Istanbul in 1935, opened up great opportunities for scientific development and independence for Böhme at an early stage.

From 1936 Böhme worked with the Army Weapons Office and researched chemical warfare agents at the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Berlin. After his workrooms had been destroyed by an air raid, he was able to continue his research on mustard gas from 1943 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. From 1946 he took over the chair for pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Marburg . Among his students were a number of prominent scientists who later became university professors, such as Professors Erich Schneider , Norbert Kreutzkamp , Rudolf Schmitz (1918–1992), Gerwalt Zinner , Friedrich Eiden (1925–2017), Hans-Dietrich Stachel , Theodor Severin , Eberhard Nürnberg , Klaus Hartke (1930–2000), Siegfried Ebel , Gunther Seitz , Bernhard Unterhalt , Richard Neidlein , Helmut Stamm , Manfred Haake , Hans-Hartwig Otto , Roland Bitsch , Rainer Braun (pharmacist) (* 1941) and Bernd Clement .

Scientific achievements

Böhme investigated among other things the hydrolysis rates of organic halogen compounds, the synthesis of α-halosulfides and -polysulfides as well as methyleniminium salts. Another research area was the elucidation of the structure of natural substances . His extensive scientific work includes over 400 publications as well as several books and book chapters.

Honors

Böhme was honored many times. In 1960 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (Saale), the Free University of Berlin and the Technical University of Braunschweig awarded him honorary doctorates in 1968 and 1981, respectively . In 1973 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit and in 1978 the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Literature (selection)

  • Horst Böhme: years of apprenticeship and development of a pharmacist in Berlin and Munich , (2 parts), Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung, 1989 , 129 , 2707-2712 and 2832-2840.
  • Christoph Friedrich: Scientific schools and the Marburger pharmacy , Pharmazeutische Zeitung 2001 , 146 , 2410–2418.
  • Klaus Hartke: Professor Dr. Dr. hc H. Böhme, Marburg, 65 years old , Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 1973 , 113 , 811.
  • Gunther Seitz: Professor Dr. Dr. hc Horst Böhme, Marburg, on his 70th birthday Pharmazeutische Zeitung 1978 , 123 , 948.
  • Bernhard Unterhalt: Horst Böhme 75 years old , Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 1983 , 123 , 1031-1034 (with bibliography).
  • Christoph Friedrich: Horst Böhme - an important pharmaceutical chemist , Pharmazeutische Zeitung 2008 , 153 , 88–90.
  • Florian Schmaltz: Research on warfare agents under National Socialism. On the cooperation between Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, industry and the military, Göttingen 2005, pp. 118–123.

Fonts

  • Editor with Klaus Hartke: European Pharmacopoeia, Wiss. Verlagsges. Stuttgart, 2nd edition 1978
  • with Heinz Günter Viehe (editor): Iminium Salts in Organic Chemistry, 2 volumes, Wiley 1976, 1979

estate

Parts of Horst Böhme's estate are in the Marburg State Archives and in the German Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg . The DPhG Foundation, with the aim of promoting science in all areas of pharmacy, commemorates this influential teacher and researcher with the Horst Böhme Foundation .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Schmaltz: Warfare agent research in National Socialism. On the cooperation between Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, industry and the military, Göttingen 2005, p. 118.
  2. ^ Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organic Chemistry , Verlag Chemie Weinheim, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 925, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 .
  3. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Horst Böhme at academictree.org, accessed on January 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ Florian Schmaltz: Warfare agent research in National Socialism. On the cooperation between Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, industry and the military, Göttingen 2005, pp. 119–122.
  5. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 190, October 9, 1973.
  6. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Böhme, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhme, Johann Friedrich Horst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernau near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1996
Place of death Arolsen