Josef Landau

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Josef Landau (also written as Józef Landau ; born April 29, 1877 in Lodz ; † February 12, 1944 near Warsaw ) was a Polish chemist and industrialist.

Life and activity

Landau was a son of the merchant Salomon Landau. After attending private elementary school (1886–1887), Landau entered the Lodzer Higher Trade School in October 1887, which he left in July 1894 with the secondary school leaving certificate. In October 1894 he began studying at the Royal Technical University in Berlin , where he passed the preliminary diploma examination in October 1896 and the main diploma examination in November 1898.

From Easter 1899 on, Landau was enrolled at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin, where he continued his chemical and scientific studies. He did his doctorate with a thesis on the esters and indone derivatives of cochineal acid as well as on some indone derivatives from hemipic acid. He passed his doctoral examination on November 1, 1900.

Between the two world wars, Landau was President of the Polish Chemical Industry Association and director of four chemical factories, particularly the Strem factory in Warsaw. These produced fertilizers , pharmaceuticals and other organic products. He was also a member of the Council of the Polish Chemical Society.

After the outbreak of the Second World War he was appointed by the Reich Security Main Office - wrong? - identified as a member of the Polish government-in-exile in London and placed on the special wanted list in the event of a successful invasion of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht , a list of people who were to be identified and arrested by the occupying forces following special SS units with special priority . An argument against Landau's flight to Great Britain and work in the government-in-exile is that, according to another source, he was in Poland in 1944 and was shot by the occupiers together with his family in February 1944.

literature

  • Josef Marcus: Social and Politicla History of the Jews in Poland, 1919-1939 , p. 114.

Fonts

  • About the esters and indone derivatives of cochineal acid as well as some indone derivatives from hemipic acid , 1900. (Dissertation)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date and place of death according to: Roczniki chemii , Vol. 20–22, 1946, p. XVI.
  2. ^ Entry for Landau on the special wanted list GB Reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London .
  3. ↑ Roczniki chemii , Vol. 20-22, 1946, p. XVI.
personal data
SURNAME Landau, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landau, Józef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish chemist and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Lodz
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1944
Place of death near Warsaw