Klaus Brodersen

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Klaus Brodersen (born August 12, 1926 in Dessau ; † November 24, 1997 in Erlangen ) was a German chemist and professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen- Nuremberg .

Life

Klaus Brodersen attended secondary school in his hometown of Dessau and was dismissed from it in 1944 with a certificate of maturity for military service . After the war he attended an introductory semester at the University of Kiel until March 1946 , which he completed with the school leaving examination and which enabled him to study at the University of Greifswald beginning in May 1946 . If he had first enrolled in physics , he soon switched to chemistry and passed the diploma examination there in 1949. He did his doctorate in January 1951 under Gerhart Jander on the subject of "The chemistry in molten mercury (II) bromide" and left the Soviet occupation zone for good.

As early as April 1949 he tried to get a job in West Germany as a teaching assistant at the Chemical Institute of the University of Tübingen with Walter Rüdorff . In June 1951 he passed the denazification procedure in Tübingen and wrote his first publication from West Germany here. In Tübingen he completed his habilitation in July 1959 in the subject “Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry” with a thesis “On the constitution of mercury-nitrogen compounds”.

Subsequently Brodersen lecturer in Tubingen, before October 1, 1961, the Aachen University to the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Electrochemistry, led by Martin bouncer as an associate professor was appointed. In October 1964 he accepted a call to the professorship for inorganic and analytical chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and was appointed co-director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry. Despite interesting positions at other universities, Brodersen remained loyal to this institute until his retirement and beyond. In 1986 he publicly described the brother of his doctoral supervisor Jander in his lecture as "a tough Nazi, anyone could know that" . Brodersen established the tradition of the magic lecture in Erlangen, which he passed on to his successor Rudi van Eldik in 1995 .

Brodersen's main research areas were the structural chemistry of mercury compounds and instrumental analysis , as evidenced by more than 130 specialist publications. He is the father of two sons, including the ancient historian Kai Brodersen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ summarized in G. Jander and K. Brodersen, Z. anorg. allg. Chem. 261, 261 (1950) , 262, 33 (1950) , 264, 57 (1951) , 264, 76 (1951) , 264, 92 (1951) and 265, 117 (1951) . - These publications were received by the publisher between December 1949 and January 1951.
  2. ↑ Walter Rüdorff - Who is it? in Nachr. Chem. Techn. 17 , 333 (1969). Georg Wittig himself lured Rüdorff to Tübingen in 1947 with an assistant position.
  3. ↑ Denazification files Klaus Brodersen as a digital reproduction in the online offer of the Sigmaringen State Archives
  4. ↑ Walter Rüdorff and Klaus Brodersen, The structure of mercury amidobromide and the formation of mixed crystals between mercury diammine bromide, mercury amidobromide and ammonium bromide in Z. anorg. general Chem. 270 , 145 (1952)
  5. ↑ last magic lecture (November 1994) under the direction of Klaus Brodersen
personal data
SURNAME Brodersen, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1997
Place of death gain