Karl Wrabetz (chemist)
Karl Wrabetz (born February 7, 1928 in Braunau , Czechoslovakia , as Karl Erwin Wrabetz, † October 28, 1997 in Leverkusen ) was a Czechoslovak-German physico-chemist and writer.
Life
At the end of the war, his parents fled with him to Fürth / Bavaria, where he also spent his school days. He studied chemistry in Bamberg with a focus on physical chemistry. After receiving his doctorate, he was a senior executive at Bayer AG from 1955 to 1992 and lived in Leverkusen with his wife and three children. He died by suicide in 1997.
Services
As an analytical chemist and later group leader for physical analysis in the organic analytical laboratory (OAL), he was entrusted with the introduction of the pioneering analytical techniques of gas chromatography, which were emerging at the time . He is the author and co-author of several scientific papers. In particular, the first analytical method was initially carried out in the laboratory with self-made instruments, which were not by chance reminiscent of the cooler columns of the related distillation technology, before the analytical equipment industry developed commercial devices.
From 1980, Karl Wrabetz was also extensively active as a writer. However, he no longer published his novels, essays and plays himself. In 1983 he won the second authors' competition of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie with a short story on chemistry concerns us all . He is also the author of the commissioned publication of the then Central Analytics of Bayer AG on the subject of 100 years of the organic-analytical laboratory of Bayer AG. A bridge novel from his estate was published posthumously in June 2013 - a story about the intrigues, lives and deaths of members of a bridge club in the vicinity of the large company to which he belonged. The editor of his literary legacy, from which further publications are planned, is Leo Kaceem.
Publications
- Karl Wrabetz: About galvanic cells with sulfide electrodes. In: Z. für Elektrochemie , 1955, 60 (7), pp. 722-731, doi : 10.1002 / bbpc.19560600708 (currently unavailable) .
- Karl Wrabetz, Werner Sassenberg: The gas chromatographic analysis of phenol-cresol-xylenol mixtures with special consideration of the o-cresol content in tricresyl phosphate. In: Fresenius' Journal for Analytical Chemistry. 179, 1961, pp. 333-342, doi : 10.1007 / BF00462685 .
- Werner Sassenberg, Karl Wrabetz: o-Phthalic acid di (3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexyl) ester as a stationary phase for gas chromatography of phenol derivatives. In: Fresenius' Journal for Analytical Chemistry. 184, 1961, pp. 423-427, doi : 10.1007 / BF00464503 .
- Karl Wrabetz: Detection of aromatic amines and N-heterocycles by photochemical color reactions. In: Fresenius' Journal for Analytical Chemistry. 246, 1969, pp. 258-259, doi : 10.1007 / BF00454560 .
Works
- Mahlmann's thoughts on an ordinary workplace , Karl Wrabetz, 2nd author competition 1984 of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie in the Verband der Chemischen Industrie e. V., Series of publications by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, 1986, Issue 22, ISSN 0174-2728
- An analytical laboratory wasn't there either , Karl Wrabetz, Central Research of Bayer AG, 1992, self-published
- Der Klub , Bridge-Roman, Karl Wrabetz, Verlag epubli Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-5899-8
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Karl Wrabetz: epubli - Karl Wrabetz. In: epubli.de. October 28, 1997, accessed June 5, 2015 .
- ↑ homepage of Leo Kaceem
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wrabetz, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wrabetz, Karl Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physico-chemist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunau , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1997 |
| Place of death | Leverkusen |