Karl Winnacker

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Karl Winnacker (born September 21, 1903 in Barmen ; † June 5, 1989 in Königstein ) was a German manager in the chemical industry and university professor.

Life

He was born in Barmen as the son of a high school teacher and studied at the technical universities in Braunschweig and Darmstadt . During his studies in 1922 he became a member of the Landsmannschaft Guestphalia Braunschweig . With a thesis on the oxidation processes on motor fuels, he was in Darmstadt doctorate , his thesis supervisor was Ernst Berl .

Winnacker worked for IG Farben from 1933 to 1945 , where he was most recently promoted to the second most important manager at the Hoechst plant. In between he worked for IG Farben in Uerdingen and Schkopau . Winnacker had been a member of the SA since the spring of 1933 and joined the NSDAP in 1937 . As part of his professional activity, he also visited the Auschwitz concentration camp .

After working at IG Farben, he was, among other things, Chairman of the Board of Management of Hoechst AG (1952–1969) and Chairman of the German Atomic Forum . He was the author of textbooks on technical chemistry. The Karl Winnacker Institute was named after him in 1970 as an instrument of DECHEMA eV, which has been independent under the name DECHEMA Research Institute since 2012 . In the 1970s he was an honorary professor for applied chemistry at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1972 he was a laureate of the Werner von Siemens Ring and in 2002, together with Helmut Ringsdorf , he was awarded the Aachen and Munich Prize for Technology and Applied Natural Sciences posthumously from the Carl Arthur Pastor Foundation in Aachen.

For many years, Winnacker was chairman of the Marburg University Association . This federation, which describes itself as an association of friends and supporters of the University of Marburg, has awarded the Karl Winnacker Prize since 1991 . The German Atomic Forum has also been awarding a Karl Winnacker Prize since 1973. Winnacker was the founder and first president from 1959 to 1973. The prize is awarded to personalities who have made a special contribution to public understanding for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Winnacker was a member of the Normannia Darmstadt country team at the Coburg Convent . In 1977 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

He is also known as the editor of the Winnacker-Küchler handbook : Chemische Technik .

There is also a scholarship (donated by Winnacker) for young scientists.

His sons are the biochemist and science manager Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker and the experimental physicist Albrecht Winnacker .

Awards

Publications

Web links

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  1. ^ A b Diana Tobias: KARL WINNACKER - Ringträger 1972. Retrieved on June 25, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 179.
  3. ^ Stephan H. Lindner: Hoechst. An IGFarben factory in the Third Reich. Munich 2005.
  4. ↑ uni-marburg.de , accessed on August 3, 2009.
  5. ^ FR online: Liz Mohn receives Karl Winnacker Prize
  6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 262.
personal data
SURNAME Winnacker, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and business leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH June 5th 1989
Place of death Königstein im Taunus