Horst Pommer

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Horst Pommer (born April 18, 1919 in Neusalz an der Oder; † March 5, 1987 ) was a German chemist , head of research at BASF and board member of BASF.

He was an assistant and, after his habilitation in 1953, private lecturer at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the TH Braunschweig.

Pommer dealt with the synthesis of natural substances (including vitamin A , vitamin E , carotenoids , azulene), with the synthesis of pesticides and preparative organic chemistry. Among other things, he implemented the Wittig reaction in the synthesis of vitamin A on an industrial scale. The suggestion for the industrial synthesis of beta-carotene (as a precursor of vitamin A) came from Richard Kuhn , who sat on the supervisory board of BASF. For this purpose, Pommer was brought in from Braunschweig, who in ten years of work managed to implement the synthesis on an industrial scale, working together with Georg Wittig . The success with vitamin A was followed by the development of processes for other vitamins such as vitamin E.

In 1976 he received the Liebig medal . He was an honorary doctor and had the title of professor.

literature

  • Obituary by Henning Hopf , Mitteilungen TU Braunschweig, Volume 22, 1987, p. 65

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Inhoffen , Ferdinand Bohlmann , Käthe Bartram, Horst Pommer: Total synthesis of carotene, Abh. Braunschweig. Knowledge Ges., Volume 2, 1950.
  2. ^ Entry on Pommer, Horst. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on January 2, 2015.
  3. ^ Pommer The Wittig reaction in industrial practice , Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed., Vol. 16, 1977, 423-429.
personal data
SURNAME Pommer, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH New salt on the Oder
DATE OF DEATH March 5th 1987