Kurt Bodendorf

Kurt Bodendorf (born December 28, 1898 in Deutsch-Eylau , Rosenberg district in West Prussia , † July 22, 1976 in Karlsruhe ) was a German chemist and pharmacist .

Life

Kurt Bodendorf was born as the oldest of three children. He grew up in Treuburg am Treuburger See. In 1917 he passed his school leaving examination in Stolp , followed by a year as a war volunteer in France , during which he suffered minor injuries. After returning he joined the Eastern Border Guard . His father, a Prussian civil servant, died in 1920.

Bodendorf then became an intern at the Neumann pharmacist in Treuburg. Then he decided to study pharmacy and chemistry at the University of Königsberg , where he passed the pharmaceutical state examination in 1924; The chemical association examination followed just a year later. In 1925 Bodendorf received his license to practice medicine. In 1927 he received his doctorate under Hans Meerwein Dr. phil. with his work "On the rate of benzo-peracid oxidation of olefins and aldehydes and their influence by catalysts". Bodendorf remained in Königsberg as Meerwein's assistant until 1929. This time as an assistant was of great importance for the professional development of Bodendorf, as Meerwein was the one who shaped Bodendorf's scientific personality the most. Then Bodendorf went to the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Berlin, where he worked as an assistant to Carl Mannich . Under this he completed his habilitation in 1932 for the subject of pharmaceutical chemistry with his thesis "On unsaturated peroxides". During the time as Mannich's assistant, Bodendorf received his license to practice food chemistry in 1930 .

When he was offered a chair for pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Istanbul in 1935 , Bodendorf left Berlin and took over the post of director of the pharmaceutical institute for three years. In the same year he also became professor of pharmacy and director of the pharmaceutical institute at the University of Wroclaw . He held these offices until the university closed in 1945. Since May 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP and later headed the foreign office of the Breslau lecturers.

In the post-war years he worked as a freelance chemist in Oldenburg , until in 1948 he became full professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and director of the pharmaceutical institute at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . He took over this post after the death of Carl Mannich and carried it out until 1967. Under the leadership of Bodendorf, a new, independent institute was built from initially modest circumstances.

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Kurt Bodendorf is considered a classic organic chemist . His research in Berlin was mainly about auto-oxidation , base-catalyzed aldolization and Mannich condensation . The synthesis of tropane ring systems was an outstanding research result in Breslau. In Karlsruhe he mainly worked on constitutional clarification and the isolation of alkaloids . The "Textbook of Pharmaceutical Chemistry" was his best known and most successful publication. He also helped clarify the Mannich reaction .

Publications

• Short textbook of pharmaceutical chemistry , Springer Verlag, 1939

literature

• Woldemar Schneider , in: Drug Research . Vol. 8 (1958), H. 12, pp. 781 f., PMID 13628468 .
• Gerhard Schwenker: Kurt Bodendorf in memory. In: Pharmacy in our time . Vol. 8 (1979), H. 2, pp. 35-45.
• Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz (Hrsg.): German pharmacist biography. Supplementary volume 2, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1997.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Kurt Bodensdorf at academictree.org, accessed on 7 January 2018th
2. ^ Gerhard Schwenker: Kurt Bodendorf for Memory , Pharmacy in Our Time, 8th year 1979, p. 35.
3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 57