Joachim Sauer

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Joachim Sauer (2018)

Joachim Sauer (born April 19, 1949 in Hosena , then in the Hoyerswerda district , Saxony; now Brandenburg) is a German quantum chemist and physical chemist . He is the husband of German Chancellor Angela Merkel .

Professional career

Sauer attended the Walther Rathenau Polytechnic High School in Senftenberg and completed vocational training with a high school diploma as a chemical laboratory assistant in the Lauchhammer lignite combine from 1963 to 1967 . After graduating from high school with a diploma, he studied chemistry from 1967 to 1972 at the Berlin Humboldt University until he graduated as a chemist . Then he was from 1973 to 1976 at the Humboldt University as a research student worked and was founded in 1974 with the work consequences of Koopmansschen theorem in the Restricted Hartree Fock methods for open-shell systems summa cum laude for Dr. rer. nat. ( Doctorate A ). From 1977 to 1991 he worked at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR ( Berlin-Adlershof location ). During this time he worked for twelve months as a postdoc at the Heyrovský Institute in Prague with Rudolf Zahradník and, since he has been a travel manager since 1988 , at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) with Reinhart Ahlrichs .

During his time at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry Sauer 1985 with a study of quantum chemical investigations of active centers and adsorptive interactions of SiO 2 - and zeolite surfaces to Dr. sc. nat. ( Doctorate B ) qualified as a professor. In 1990 he received his teaching qualification ( facultas docendi ) from Humboldt University.

After German reunification , Sauer was technical director for catalysis for one year at BIOSYM Technologies in San Diego in 1990/91 . From 1991 to 2002 he worked as a consultant for Accelrys (formerly Molecular Simulations Inc. , MSI) in San Diego.

From 1992 to 1996, Sauer headed the Quantum Chemistry Working Group of the Max Planck Society , which was affiliated with the Humboldt University. In 1993 he became a full professor at the Humboldt University and professor of the local Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry appointed.

Sauer's main research areas are ab initio calculations of inorganic clusters and theoretical investigations on the structure, energetics and dynamics of heterogeneous catalytic processes on zeolite systems . Sauer published several hundred scientific papers. Angela Merkel is one of his co-authors.

In October 2017, Sauer retired, but continues to work as a senior researcher. Martin Schütz († 2018) took over his chair .

honors and awards

Sauer is a member of the advisory board of several institutions, including the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald .

Since 2011 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Friede Springer Foundation .

From 2015 to 2016 he was first chairman of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry .

Private

Joachim Sauer with the other spouses of the participants of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in the partner program
Sauer (r.) During the visit of US President George W. Bush to Stralsund in 2006

Sauer was born in 1949 in Hosena, then Saxony, as the son of the trained confectioner and insurance broker Richard Sauer. He has a twin sister and an older brother. His father Richard died in 1972, his mother Elfriede Sauer lived until 1999.

Sauer is the father of two sons ( Adrian and Daniel Sauer). They come from his previous marriage to a chemist who divorced in 1985.

Since December 30, 1998, he has been married to the physicist and politician Angela Merkel , whom he met at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin-Adlershof and who was active in the Peaceful Revolution of the GDR in 1990 and then quickly rose to become a top politician. Although his wife as CDU chairwoman (2000–2018) and Federal Chancellor (since 2005) is very much in the public eye, joint public appearances are rather rare. Accordingly, Sauer stayed away from Merkel's election as Chancellor in 2005, which was a first in the history of the Federal Republic. Exceptions were the annual visits to the Festival in Bayreuth and Salzburg . At the beginning of January 2006, Sauer accompanied his wife for the first time on a trip abroad that she undertook as Chancellor to Vienna. On July 13, 2006, he showed himself for the first time in Germany for an official occasion when US President George W. Bush visited Stralsund.

On March 25, 2007 he first invited to the partner program (formerly: women's program, supporting program). On the sidelines of the summit of the European Council in Berlin, he dined with the first ladies , while the mostly male foreign heads of state and government of the EU member states had lunch with his wife.

Sauer shields his private life from the media. He consistently rejects requests for interviews that do not relate to his academic work.

In the autumn of 2010, he spoke about the research conditions in the GDR in a lengthy interview in a science magazine.

Works (selection)

  • With Christoph Jung: Quantum chemical investigations into electronic properties and the intermolecular interaction of open-shell systems. Application to electron transfer reactions between the radical ions of aromatic hydrocarbons and their reactivity. Dissertation (A), Humboldt University, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Berlin 1974, 254 pages

literature

Web links

Commons : Joachim Sauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Versatile zeolites. Research project of the Max Planck working group “Quantum Chemistry” , MPG-Spiegel , No. 1, 1994, pp. 11-13.
  2. ↑ Hartmut Mix, Joachim Sauer, Klaus-Peter Schröder, Angela Merkel: Vibrational properties of surface hydroxyls: Nonempirical model calculations including anharmonicities , In: Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications , Volume 53 (1988), No. 10, pp. 2191-2202 . doi : 10.1135 / cccc19882191
  3. ↑ Interview with Joachim Sauer: Nobel Prizes are not everything , Berliner Zeitung of December 23, 2017, accessed on December 30, 2017
  4. ↑ Martin Schütz obituary , Humboldt University Berlin , accessed on July 3, 2018
  5. ↑ Member entry by Joachim Sauer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 11, 2015.
  6. ↑ Heilbronner-Hückel reading series. Swiss Chemical Society, accessed September 14, 2014 .
  7. ↑ News. In: Angewandte Chemie . Volume 126, No. 4, 2014, p. 935. doi : 10.1002 / ange.201310434 .
  8. ↑ Joachim Sauer recipient of the 2015 Francois Gault Lectureship. Press release. In: Chemie.HU-Berlin.de (English).
  9. ^ Fellows Directory: Joachim Sauer. Royal Society, accessed May 17, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Bridges between experiment and theory. Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, June 28, 2018, accessed on July 3, 2018 .
  11. ↑ GDCh Awards 2020 / DBG Awards 2020 . In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition . June 11, 2020, doi : 10.1002 / anie.202005849 ( wiley.com ).
  12. ^ Friede Springer Foundation: Board of Trustees .
  13. ↑ First Chairwoman of the Society since it was founded in 1894 , accessed on March 7, 2019.
  14. ↑ Constantin Magnis: First Man from Lausitz. In: Cicero , July 21, 2008.
  15. ^ EU summit in Berlin: Joachim Sauer and the women politicians. In: RP ONLINE. March 25, 2007, accessed May 21, 2020 .
  16. ↑ The art was to be able to look in the mirror in the morning , interview in: Humboldt Kosmos. No. 96/2010, pp. 22-29.
personal data
SURNAME Sour, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German quantum chemist, physical chemist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hosena , Hoyerswerda district , Saxony