Karl Kraushaar (chemist)

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Karl Hermann Ernst Kraushaar , also Carl Hartmann Ernst Kraushaar (born April 9, 1845 in Kassel ; † August 4, 1920 ) was a German chemist and business leader.

Life

family

Carl Hartmann Ernst Kraushaar was born in 1845 as the son of pastor and consistorial councilor Karl Gottfried Kraushaar (born February 7, 1804 in Hersfeld ; † April 14, 1880 in Niederaula) and Elise Henriette Philippine Kraushaar, née Schwarzenberg (born January 18, 1816 in Rinteln ; † July 25, 1857 in Niederaula). His younger brother was the later German consul in Chile Richard Kraushaar (born September 16, 1846 in Kassel, † December 13, 1917 in Santiago de Chile).

Career

After attending school, Kraushaar studied chemistry at the Polytechnic School in Kassel with Rudolf Schmitt and received his doctorate in Rostock at the philosophical faculty of the university there on the subject of the effect of hydrogen sulfide gas on diazosalicylic acid and the decomposition product that occurs when diazosalicylic acid explodes .

In the early days of the German Empire , Kraushaar went to Hanover and Linden , where in 1881 he worked for the companies of the industrialist Georg Egestorff , for whose economic success he had made a great contribution, most recently as general director of the Georg Egestorff corporation, salt works and chemical factories . In the last decade of the 19th century, Kraushaar also assumed a leading position in the self-administration of accident and disability insurance in his branch, was only a substitute in the trade association for the chemical industry from 1890 to 1892 and, from 1902, also a full member of the cooperative's board of directors In 1885 he was also a member of the Section Board.

From 1900 at the latest, “Dr. C. Kraushaar ”with his signature for the forerunner of the Hanover Industry Club , the Manufacturers' Association for Hanover, Linden and the surrounding area , as evidenced by a letter to the Elisabeth-Haus in Linden on July 14th of that year. Kraushaar, chairman of the industry club, was at the same time vice-president of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce at the time - from 1902 at the latest, both institutions also had their joint headquarters in the Palais Simon am Clevertor .

Between 1908 and 1910 at the latest, Kraushaar was awarded the title of Kommerzienrat , like the bankers Hermann Spiegelberg , Georg Spiegelberg and Paul Klaproth and the entrepreneur Gerhard Hoyermann .

Karl Kraushaar died at the beginning of the Weimar Republic after a short period of suffering on August 4, 1920.

Fonts

  • Carl Hartmann Ernst Kraushaar: On the effect of hydrogen sulfide gas on diazosalicylic acid and the decomposition product that occurs during the explosion of diazosalicylic acid , doctoral thesis approved by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Rostock, Kassel: Printed by Carl Landsiedel, 1868; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e C. Scheuber: Chemical-Technical Overview , Volume 45, Verlag der Chemiker-Zeitung Otto v. Halem, 1921, p. 69; Preview over google books
  2. ^ A b c Carl Hartmann Ernst Kraushaar: On the action of hydrogen sulfide gas on diazosalicylic acid ... (see also in the section on publications ); Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
  3. ^ The Reich Insurance Office and the German Workers Insurance. Commemorative publication of the Reich Insurance Office on the anniversary of the accident and invalidity insurance 1910 , Berlin: Behrend & Co., 1910, p. 190; [New electronic edition, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg]; Digitized
  4. ↑ Dieter Tasch (red. Ed.): From the factory owners' association to the industry club. A Century of Hanoverian Economy 1887 1987 , ed. from Industrie-Club Hannover eV on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the association in October 1987, Hannover 1987, p. 35, 107
  5. ↑ File NLA HA Hann. 180 Hanover No. 00043 , old archive signature Hann. 180 Hanover No. 00170 , from the period 1908–1910 with the title Awarding and management of the commercial title by the bankers Hermann Spiegelberg and Georg Spiegelberg and also by Messrs. Hoyermann, Kraushaar, Klaproth in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hannover location) ; compare the information on the website of the Lower Saxony archive information system (Arcinsys Lower Saxony), last accessed on July 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kraushaar, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraushaar, Karl Hermann Ernst (full name); Kraushaar, Carl Hartmann Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and business leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1920