Kurt Bennewitz (chemist)

Kurt Gustav David Bennewitz (born January 2, 1886 in Magdeburg , † November 28, 1964 in Ückesdorf ) was a German chemist ( physical chemistry ).

Life

Kurt Bennewitz studied physics and chemistry in Munich , Heidelberg , Berlin and Geneva from 1904 and received his doctorate in 1909 under Walther Nernst ( contributions to the question of decomposition voltage ). From 1910 to 1913 he was Willy Marckwald's assistant in Berlin and worked on measurements of radioactivity. During the First World War he was an aircraft observer and engineer, most recently with the rank of first lieutenant. He completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1924 ( elastic aftereffects, hysteresis and internal friction ) and taught at the Agricultural University in Berlin.

From 1927 he was professor of physical chemistry at the University of Jena , from July 7, 1932 as a full professor. After the Second World War he came to the West Zone with the Americans and, despite his own efforts, was unable to return to his chair in Jena. From September 1, 1947 until his retirement in 1952, he temporarily held the chair for physical chemistry at the University of Würzburg under Gottwalt Fischer , the head of the Chemical Institute at Röntgenring 11, while Ulrich von Weber , who later became a physical chemist , was the institute's scientific assistant . After that he was at the TH Stuttgart until 1958 .

He dealt with many areas of physical chemistry, including a. Electrolysis (irreversible processes on electrodes, electrode potentials, electrolyte solutions, improvement of Kohlrausch's law with Debye-Hückel theory ).

Fonts

The Nernst heat law, in Geiger, Scheel Handbuch der Physik 1926

literature

Hellmut Bredereck , Theodor Förster : "Kurt Bennewitz in memory", in: TH Stuttgart: Reden and Essays, Volume 31, 1965, pp. 49/50

Web links

Peter Halpap: 50th anniversary of death: Kurt Bennewitz, University of Jena, pdf

Individual evidence

↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. Universitätsdruckerei H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, pp. 14 and 18.

personal data
SURNAME	Bennewitz, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bennewitz, Kurt Gustav David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist (physical chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH	January 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 1964
Place of death	Ückesdorf

[1] Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. Universitätsdruckerei H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, pp. 14 and 18.