Kurt Thinius

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Kurt Thinius (born January 27, 1903 in Hertnek ; † July 6, 1994 ) was a German chemist and university professor . His main focus was research on plastic materials . In addition, he was a member of the People's Chamber and a functionary of the GDR bloc party LDPD .

Life

Thinius was born in Hertnek, which was then Austro-Hungarian. His father was the ducal-Anhalt court chamber secretary Max Thinius. But he attended elementary school and the secondary school in Dessau . After passing the Abitur, Thinius began to study chemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . He finished his studies as a graduate chemist. During his studies he still struggled with pulmonary tuberculosis, which he did not overcome until 1925. In 1927 he was with the dissertation Austen's Roberts determination of transition points polymorphic crystalline liquids using the differential method for Daniel Vorländer to Dr. nat. PhD . Then in 1929 he found a job at the German celluloid factory of IG Farben in Eilenburg in the up-and-coming Central German region, where large chemical companies had settled , initially as a scientific assistant and later as a laboratory manager. During this time, various patents were registered under his name, especially on polyvinyl chloride , but also, for example, for record recording. After the war , Thinius initially remained active in his profession, where he made outstanding contributions to the rapid reconstruction of the Eilenburg celluloid works. In 1946 he joined the LDP. On behalf of the newly founded Ministry of Heavy Industry, he built a joint central laboratory in Magdeburg from April 1950 for VVB Lacke und Farben and VVB Plasta, which Thinius headed. In 1954, this laboratory developed into the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Plastics, which was relocated to Leipzig in 1955. In 1958 this institute was incorporated into the research community of the natural science, technical and medical institutes of the German Academy of Sciences. As a result, Thinius developed into a scientific capacity in polymer research in the area of ​​the GDR. Between 1954 and 1958 he also represented his party as a member of the People's Chamber . From the winter semester 1962/63 Thinius held several semesters lectures at the University of Leipzig on Macromolecular Chemistry . In addition, he founded the specialist journal Plaste und Kautschuk , in which he was involved in over 200 publications. In 1966 the Institute for Plastics in Berlin, the Institute for Physics and Physical Chemistry of High Polymers in Leipzig and Thinius' Institute for Chemical Technology of Plastics in Leipzig merged to form an institute for organic high polymers based in Leipzig under the umbrella of the German Academy of Sciences . The management of the facility was entrusted to Thinius, who held it until 1968. In his retirement, in which he continued to publish, Thinius was a member of the LDPD's central board from 1972 to 1977.

He wrote various monographs on polymers, including 1952 on the analytical chemistry of plastics, which Herman Mark described in a review as a most welcome and useful compilation of methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis in macromolecular chemistry. At the same time, according to Mark, he introduced the word plastic into literature, which together with Elaste became a synonym for plastics in the GDR .

Honors in the GDR

Fonts

  • Scientific and technical progress reports in the field of non-hardenable plastics 1942 - 1945 , Akademie Verlag 1950
  • High polymers: production, properties and application as plastics , Leipzig: Fachbuchverlag 1952
  • Analytical chemistry of plastics (plastics analysis) , Springer 1952
  • Instructions for the analysis of solvents , Leipzig: Barth 1953
  • Chemistry, physics and technology of plasticizers: a handbook for the paint and plastics industry , Verlag Technik 1960, 2nd edition Deutscher Verlag der Grundstoffindustrie 1963
  • Stabilization and aging of plastic materials , 2 volumes, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1969, Verlag Chemie 1969, 1971

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the curriculum vitae in his dissertation in 1927
  2. ^ Biography in: Twenty Years of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany, book publisher Der Morgen 1965, p. 105
  3. ↑ A method for the preparation of solutions or pastes from according to chlorinated polyvinyl chloride  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Thinius patent application 1943, granted 1953@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / documents.allpatents.com  
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, January 27, 1963, p. 2
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland, November 19, 1966, p. 9
  6. ^ Mark, Journal of Polymer Science, Volume 11, 1953, p. 176
  7. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 23, 1963, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Thinius, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hertnek
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1994