Lothar Birckenbach

Lothar Georg Birckenbach (born April 21, 1876 in Kissingen ; † September 22, 1962 in Hamburg ) was a German chemist and university professor.

Life

Birckenbach, son of a chief magistrate, studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and was reciprocated in the Corps Makaria Munich in 1899 . In 1904 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1907 he came to BASF in Ludwigshafen am Rhein as head of the analytical laboratory . With Alexander Gutbier he undertook the redetermination of the atomic weights of bismuth , thallium and beryllium . He took part in the First World War as a reserve officer , most recently as captain d. R. Then he became an employee of Otto Hönigschmid at the chemical institute of the University of Munich. In 1922 he became professor for the chemistry of mining and metallurgy at the Bergakademie Clausthal . In 1924/25 he was rector . In 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . After his retirement he lived in Hamburg, where he died at the age of 86. He was buried in the Clausthal cemetery .

Iron Cross 2nd class

Honorary citizen of the Clausthal Mining Academy

Band award of the Corps Montania Clausthal (1962)

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Great Federal Cross of Merit (1957)

Birckenbachstrasse in Clausthal

The investigation methods of hydrogen peroxide. Chemical analysis, Vol. 7. Enke 1909.
Otto Hönigschmid 1878–1945. In: Chemical Reports. 82, 4-5, 1949, pp. XI-LXV ( doi : 10.1002 / cber.19490820423 ).
with Alexander Gutbier: Practical instructions for weight analysis. Wittwer, 1919

Ernst Biesalski : Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. hc Lothar Birckenbach †. Deutsche Corpszeitung 63, 1962, p. 296f.

personal data
SURNAME	Birckenbach, Lothar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Birckenbach, Lothar Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 21, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1962
Place of death	Hamburg