Hugo stintzing

Hugo Stintzing (born August 10, 1888 in Munich , † December 11, 1970 in Darmstadt ) was a German university professor of physics.

Life

Gravestone Hugo Stintzings u. a. at the old cemetery in Darmstadt

Hugo Stintzing was born in Munich in 1888 as the son of Roderich Stintzing (1854–1933), secret medical advisor and professor of internal medicine. After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry and metallurgy at TH Munich , TH Darmstadt , University of Freiburg , Leipzig and TH Berlin . In May 1911 he completed his studies with the title of Diplomingenieur at the TH Berlin. From 1913 he was an assistant in the photochemical department of the Physico-Chemical Institute of the University of Leipzig. His dissertation on The Influence of Light on Colloidal Systems was published in 1914. The Dr. phil. it received on January 12, 1915 from the University of Giessen .

At this point he was already a participant in the war. During the First World War he was an artillery observer and battery leader. He had the rank of lieutenant in the reserve.

From 1918 he was an assistant at the Physico-Chemical Institute of the University of Giessen. There he completed his habilitation in 1923 with a thesis on radiographic-chemical investigations . Afterwards he was a private lecturer in physical chemistry and technology at the University of Giessen. On July 4, 1928, he was appointed adjunct professor for physical chemistry at the University of Giessen. He received teaching assignments for X-ray spectroscopy.

Stintzing was transferred to the TH Darmstadt with effect from April 1, 1936. At the request of the responsible ministry, he was supposed to take the place of Paul Knipping , who had founded an institute for X-ray physics and technology at the TH Darmstadt in 1929/30 and who suddenly died in a motorcycle accident in October 1935. Stintzing initially received a teaching post for the summer semester of 1936. After completing the formal procedure, he was appointed director of the Institute for X-ray Physics and Technology at the TH Darmstadt on October 1, 1936.

Despite several attempts by the TH to improve his professional position, this only succeeded in 1939. After an internal commission consisting of Hans Rau , Otto Scherzer , Wolfgang Finkelnburg and Alwin Walther attested him very good scientific success, he became an unscheduled one on September 6, 1939 Appointed professor. On June 10, 1943 he became a civil servant, associate professor for X-ray physics and technology at the TH Darmstadt. As early as 1942, the Roentgen Institute of Stintzing was classified as a "military economy", with which certain privileges were associated for the institute. His research was classified by the Reich Research Council as important to the war effort and funded with large sums of money.

Hugo Stintzing joined both the NSDAP and the SA on May 1, 1933 . In the NSDAP he was a trainer with the rank of block leader. From September 1938 to June 1940 he held the post of Nazi Lecturer League Leader at the TH Darmstadt. Along with Karl Lieser and Friedrich List, he was one of the main pillars of the Nazi regime at the TH Darmstadt and confidante of Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger . In the SA he held the rank of Rottenführer.

On October 8, 1945, he was dismissed from college by the American military government. In early 1946 he was even interned by the military government. With his release and internment, the institute for X-ray physics and X-ray technology affiliated with the TH Darmstadt came to an end. His institute was added to the institute of Richard Vieweg . A return to the university was excluded.

A first application for retirement, which was made in 1954 by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, was unsuccessful. On June 1, 1958, stintzing was finally on the recommendation of the TH u. a. retired from Otto Scherzer .

Stintzing had been with Frieda born in 1929. Keferstein (1899–1989) married. The marriage resulted in four children, a son, Conrad, and three daughters - including Irmgard Stintzing and Maja D. Reid, née. Stintzing, Professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Hugo Stintzing died at the age of 82, he is buried in the old cemetery .

Works

• 1914: The influence of light on colloidal systems , dissertation, Dresden a. a.
• 1923: Radiographic-chemical investigations , habilitation thesis, Leipzig.
• 1931: Chemical material testing using X-rays , Giessen.

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 169.
• Melanie Hanel: The Technical University of Darmstadt in the “Third Reich” , dissertation, Darmstadt 2013.
• Christa Wolf / Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1977, p. 202.