Johannes Schröder (chemist)
Johannes Schröder (born July 20, 1879 in Guntersblum ; † January 25, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German chemist , professor , author and diplomat .
Life
Johannes Schröder was born in Guntersblum in 1879 as the son of master whiter Heinrich Schröder and his wife Juliane Schröder, née Becker.
After attending the Guntersblum primary school , at the age of ten he moved to the Grand Ducal Realschule in the neighboring Oppenheim . After his mother Juliane died in 1892, his father remarried in 1894 and Johannes had a surrogate mother. In addition, a few years later he had a new sister named Cilli. When his school days at the Grand Ducal Realschule in Oppenheim ended, he went to the Grand Ducal Realgymnasium in Mainz for another year .
After graduating from high school in Mainz , he studied natural sciences at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen from 1897 . He was particularly interested in chemistry in connection with agriculture . From 1899 he was a teaching assistant at the chemical laboratory at Giessen University. In 1901 Schröder received his doctorate on the subject of reactions of metal salts in pyridine . Shortly afterwards he taught analytical chemistry in Giessen until 1904 .
He then completed his habilitation on the subject of chemical and physico-chemical behavior of pyridine and metal salts to and in pyridine . On April 27, 1904, he finally received the Venia legendi . Now Schröder taught as a private lecturer in chemistry at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. On January 5, 1907, Schröder received a teaching position at the University of Montevideo in Uruguay for chemistry and agrochemistry . Two years later he finally became the inspector of the administration of that institute.
Now Johannes Schröder was also active as an author. He wrote numerous scientific works in German and Spanish on chemical and chemical-agricultural topics as well as some works on the situation and the problems of society in Uruguay. In this way he was able to contribute significantly to the structural improvement of the local agriculture.
In 1920 Schröder finally retired as a full professor in Montevideo. Now he mainly took care of the practical elimination of technical problems in Uruguay. Because of his achievements and his skills, he came to Berlin in 1937 as an attaché for technical matters to the diplomatic mission of Uruguay during the Nazi era . During this time he often visited his retarded family in his hometown of Guntersblum.
In 1938 he finally married Traude von Zagorski, the wife of a deceased friend. Schröder finally died of a heart attack in Berlin on January 25, 1942, during the Second World War .
literature
- Guntersblum story (s). Volume 2. Published by the local community of Guntersblum on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary in October 1997. Kehl, Hamm / Rhh. 1997, pp. 78-80.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist, professor, author and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guntersblum |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1942 |
| Place of death | Berlin |