Kurt Brand (Pharmacist)

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Otto Kurt Brand (born March 19, 1877 in Lützen , † June 3, 1952 in Marburg an der Lahn ) was a German chemist and university professor . He headed the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Institute at the University of Marburg .

Life

He attended secondary school in Leipzig and in 1893 became an intern at the Marienapotheke in Zwickau . He then stayed in Strasbourg for some time and then studied at the universities of Jena , Marburg and Giessen . In Marburg he passed the state examination for pharmacists, and at the University of Giessen, he graduated as Dr. phil. He later qualified as a chemist. In 1909 Kurt Brand was given an extraordinary professorship and in 1920 a scheduled extraordinary professorship for applied chemistry at the University of Giessen . In 1928 he was appointed associate professor for pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Marburg.

In 1933 he publicly declared the professors at German universities and colleges for Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state and joined the NSDAP . In 1945 he retired from university.

family

Kurt Brand married Johanna nee Wortmann. The children Margot (* 1907) and Lieselitte (* 1913) emerged from the marriage. They lived in Marburg, Biegenstrasse 20 1/2.

Fonts (selection)

  • The influence of Justus von Liebig on the development of pharmaceutical chemistry , 1931.

Honors

  • 1942 War Merit Cross, 2nd class

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 179.
  • Professor Dr. Kurt Brand, Marburg, 65 years old . In: DAZ 57 (1942), p. 118.
  • Claus Gansen: Pharmacy at Hessian universities during the Nazi era. Kurt Brand as director of the Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Marburg . In: Christoph Friedrich and Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke (eds.): Pharmacists and University. The lectures at the Pharmaceutical History Biennale in Leipzig from May 12 to 14, 2000 , 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 1954, Col. 2700.
  2. ^ The Philipps University of Marburg under National Socialism , 2000, p. 459.
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brand, Otto Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Lützen
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1952
Place of death Marburg on the Lahn