Karl Kindler

Hermann Julius Karl Kindler (born September 7, 1891 in Deutsch-Lissa , † September 28, 1967 in Wentorf near Hamburg ) was a German pharmaceutical chemist and university professor. He is best known for the Willgerodt-Kindler reaction named after Conrad Willgerodt and himself .

biography

Karl Kindler studied chemistry at the universities in Innsbruck and Breslau . There he received his doctorate in 1916 under Julius von Braun . He moved to the Chemical State Institute in Hamburg, where he completed his habilitation in 1922. There he became associate professor for pharmaceutical chemistry in 1928 and changed to a chair for pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Innsbruck in 1941. After the war he returned to Hamburg and initially worked briefly in the chemical industry. In 1946 he took over the development and management of the Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Hamburg, from 1950 also as a professor. He retired in 1959. He signed that in November 1933Confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler . In 1940 he became a member of the NSDAP .

Kindler's areas of work were in particular the synthetic applications of heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation and thionamides . An outstanding achievement was the structural elucidation of the alkaloid quinine and the synthesis of hydroquinine in connection with research on narcotics. He also researched poison gases .

literature

• Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. who was what before and after 1945? , Frankfurt a. M. 2003, p. 309 ISBN 978-3100393098

Web links

• CV at the University of Hamburg
• Oelschläger, Herbert:  Kindler, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 619 f. ( Digitized version ).