Lothar Kolditz

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Lothar Kolditz (2007)

Lothar Kolditz (born September 30, 1929 in Albernau ) is a German chemist and author and editor of textbooks on inorganic chemistry .

From 1981 to 1990 Kolditz was President of the National Council of the National Front , from 1982 to 1990 a member of the State Council of the GDR and from 1986 to 1990 an independent member of the People's Chamber of the GDR.

Career

Kolditz was born in Albernau in today's municipality of Zschorlau in the Erzgebirge as the son of the carpenter Paul Kolditz and his wife Ella, née Bauer. From 1941 to 1948 he attended high school in Aue (Saxony) .

After graduating from high school, Kolditz studied chemistry from 1948 to 1952 at the Humboldt University in Berlin , graduating as a chemist. His diploma thesis "About potassium borofluoride tetrasulfur trioxide and the representation of trisulfuryl fluoride" was written under the guidance of Hans-Albert Lehmann .

Here he also received his doctorate in 1954. rer. nat. with a work “About Polyarsenatophosphate”, which was created under the guidance of the chair holder Erich Thilo (1898–1977). He then completed his habilitation in 1957 with a thesis “On compounds of pentavalent phosphorus, arsenic and antimony with fluorine and chlorine”.

Kolditz has been married to Mrs. Ruth, geb. Schramm, the couple has two adult daughters Christiane (mathematician) and Martina (psychologist), he lives in Steinförde , part of the town of Fürstenberg / Havel . The family has 4 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.

College and university professor

After his habilitation in 1957 he was appointed professor with a teaching position for inorganic and radiochemistry at the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg . After Franz Hein (1892–1976) retired , Kolditz was appointed to the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in 1959 . There he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Director of the Inorganic Chemical Institute until 1962.

In 1962, Kolditz returned to the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB), initially as a professor with a chair and director of the First Chemical Institute (1962–68). From 1965 to 1968 he was also Vice Rector for Natural Sciences at the HUB. In 1969 he was elected as a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences (DAW). After the third university reform in 1968, he took over as director of the chemistry section of the HUB from 1971 to 1979. In 1972 he was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW).

Academy professor

From 1980 to 1990 Kolditz worked at the AdW as director of the Central Institute for Inorganic Chemistry (ZIAC) in Berlin. The ZIAC was created in 1971 through the merger of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, founded in 1952, and the Institute for Applied Silicate Research, founded in 1951. With the dissolution of the AdW and thus also of the ZIAC on December 31, 1991, Kolditz went into early retirement and has lived in Fürstenberg / Havel ever since .

Research focus and journalistic activity

Lothar Kolditz at the Leibniz Society (2014)

Since receiving his doctorate in 1954 at the HUB, Kolditz has been working on radiochemistry and the chemistry of halogens, especially fluorine:

  • Halogen chemistry: investigation of pure and mixed halides, of oxo and thio-fluoro complexes; Kinetics of halogenation reactions (e.g. gas-phase fluorination in the presence of suitable catalysts); Utilization of local raw materials and waste products
  • Solid-state chemistry: reactivity of solids during the decomposition of halogeno and oxo complexes.

In the Central Institute for Inorganic Chemistry (ZIAC) of the AdW, under the direction of Kolditz, research focuses on phosphor chemistry, silicate chemistry and the development of modern glass and ceramic materials have been carried out since 1980. For example, fluorocarbon-based blood substitutes have been developed, as well as lubricants and self-lubricating chemically anchored coatings on metals.

Kolditz's journalistic activities include around 350 original publications in specialist journals, 37 patents and well over 200 colloquium lectures at home and abroad or plenary and main lectures at national and international conferences. He was a long-time member of the editorial boards of several journals: 1971–1991 Journal of Fluorine Chemistry , 1981–1991 Chemistry of the Earth , 1960–1962 Urania , 1964–1990 Science and Progress , 1960–1990 co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Chemie , 1983–1987 permanent Employee of the journal for inorganic and general chemistry (former editor-in-chief Günther Rienäcker ), 1988–1990 editor-in-chief of this journal.

A number of scientists and university lecturers have emerged from his scientific environment : Ursula Bentrup (* 1954), Rostock / Berlin; Eberhard Brink (* 1938) Eichwalde; Ursula Calov (* 1937), Berlin; Siegfried Engels (* 1932), Eggersdorf; Adalbert Feltz (* 1934), Deutschlandsberg / Austria; Ingomar Fitz (* 1939), Falkensee; Günther Furcht (1937–2007), Eberswalde; Dieter Hass (1934–1996), Berlin; Günther Kauschka (* 1941), Berlin; Hans-Peter Krause (* 1939), Berlin; Hans-Joachim Lunk (* 1941), Towanda / USA; Chen-Sou Lung (* 1935), PR China; Michael Luthardt (* 1953), taught near Hanover; Dirk-Henning Menz (* 1953), Augsburg; Thomas Moya (* 1949), Santiago de Chile; Volker Nitzsche (* 1942), Berlin; Brigitte Nußbücker (* 1935), Oranienburg; Henry Preiss (* 1935), Berlin; Ullrich Prösch (1931–2015), Berlin; Andre Radde (* 1952), Berlin / Bonn; Walter Rehak (* 1933), Vienna; Walter Röhnsch (1929–1996), Berlin; Dieter Sarrach (* 1931), Berlin; Werner Schmidt (1930-1993), Berlin; Wolfgang Schiller (* 1944), Berlin; Martin Schönherr (1937–2007), Berlin; Gudrun Scholz (* 1956), Berlin; Senta Völter (* 1943), Berlin; Wolfgang Wilde (* 1935), Berlin.

Political activity

Lothar Kolditz with participants in the youth consecration in his home town of Zschorlau , 1984

In September 1971 he was appointed to the election commission of the GDR for the election of the People's Chamber and the district days on November 14, 1971. From September 1980 to October 1981, he was the successor to Josef Stanek as Chairman of the Berlin District Committee of the National Front. On October 30, 1981, Kolditz was elected President of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR and in July 1982 a member of the State Council of the GDR . From 1983 to 1990 he was a member of the Presidium of the Central Board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF), from 1986 to 1990 a member of the Presidential Council of the Kulturbund der DDR (KB) and from 1986 to 1990 as a member of the Kulturbund parliamentary group of independent members of the People's Chamber of the GDR.

Memberships, honors and awards

Publications (selection)

Book publications

  • Radiochemistry. In: Gustav Hertz : Textbook of Nuclear Physics, Volume III, Applied Nuclear Physics. BG Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1962.
  • Ed .: Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski: Textbook of inorganic chemistry. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1963, 6th edition 1970 (translation from Polish).
  • Halides of Arsenic and Antimony. In: HJ Emeleus and AG Sharpe (eds.): Advances in Inorganic Chemistry and Radiochemistry . Vol. 7. Academic Press, New York / London 1965.
  • Halides of Arsenic and Antimony. In: Gutmann (Ed.): Halogen Chemistry. Vol. 2. Academic Press New York / London 1967.
  • Ed .: Inorganikum: Textbook and practical course book for inorganic chemistry; with an introduction to physical chemistry. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967, 12th edition 1989; Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag, Leipzig-Berlin-Heidelberg, 13th edition 1993. Russian translation: Mir Verlag, Moskva 1984.
  • Compounds of niobium and tantalum. In: Niedenzu, Lexington, Kentucky (Ed.): Houben-Weyl, Methodicum Chimicum. Volume VIII. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart and Academic Press, New York / London 1974 (also English edition Compounds of Nb and Ta ).
  • with Günter Kauschka: Exchange reactions. In: Recent Developments in Inorganic Chemistry. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1974.
  • Ed. And co-author: Inorganische Chemie. (Textbook). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1978, 3rd edition 1990. Polish translation, Warsaw 1994.
  • with Jurij Alexandrovič Buslaev and Eleonora Alexandrovna Kravčenko: Nuclear quadrupole resonance in inorganic chemistry. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1987.
  • Perfluorohalogenoorgano Compounds of Main Group Elements. In: Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry. 8th Edition, 2nd Supplement, Vol. 1. Springer Verlag 1994.
  • The Linden University 1945 to 1990 - Reconstruction, consolidation and turbulence in chemistry, the Vice-Rector for Natural Sciences. In: Wolfgang Girnus and Klaus Meier (eds.): The Humboldt University Unter den Linden 1945 to 1990. pp. 239–248. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2010.
  • Preparation of Fluorine-Containing Molecular Halides and Heteropolar Salts with Elements of Group 15 and Niobium and Tantalum Halides; Fluoro and Fluorohydroxy Complexes of As, Sb and Sn. In: ed. By Herbert W. Roesky: Efficient Preparations of Fluorine Compounds. A John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publication 2013, pp. 108-120.

Magazines

Publications in international journals and especially in the journal of inorganic and general chemistry and the journal of chemistry .

Leibniz Society

Publications within the framework of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin :

  • Raw materials and energy. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, issue 1/2. Reinhardt Becker Verlag, Velten near Berlin 1994, pp. 105-115.
  • On the chemistry of fluorine. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 7, Issue 7. Reinhardt Becker Verlag, Velten near Berlin 1995, pp. 5–23.
  • Information processing in science - printing and the Internet. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 33, Issue 6. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 1999, pp. 71–90.
  • Inorganic Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences and the interaction with university and industrial institutions in the main research area Inorganic Chemistry. Essays Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 6: Wolfdietrich Hartung and Werner Scheler (Eds.): The Berlin Academy after 1945, contemporary witnesses report. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2001, pp. 127–133.
  • Evolution - intelligence - tolerance. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 56, Issue 5. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2002, pp. 97–105.
  • Developing tolerance. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 65. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2004, pp. 19–26.
  • Chemistry and time. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 80. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2005, pp. 115–123.
  • On the complexity of the topic of supplying energy and raw materials. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 82. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2005, pp. 151–160.
  • Evolution of chemical compounds. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 85. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2006, pp. 57–79.
  • Solid state chemistry and a consideration of dogmas, theories, hypotheses. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 93. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 71–89.
  • General education and science, experiences in learning and teaching. Society and Education, Historical and Systematic Perspectives, Volume 6. In: Dieter Kirchhöfer and Christa Uhlig (Eds.): Scientific education in the overall concept of general school education. Peter Lang International Science Publishing House, Frankfurt / M. 2009, pp. 47-57.
  • Collectivity and emergence - the world formula. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 105. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2010, pp. 91–106.
  • Deterministic Chaos and Society. Meeting reports Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 110. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 107–122.
  • The Berlin Academy and the Berlin University through the Ages - A View from a Scientific Perspective. Essays Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 29. In: Hubert Laitko and Herbert Hörz (Eds.): Academy and University in historical and current view. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2013.
  • On the energy issue. In: Energiewende. Essays Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 31. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2014, pp. 133–135.
  • Big Data - The great flood of data, theories and models. In: Frank Fuchs-Kittowski , Werner Kriesel (Hrsg.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Peter Lang International Science Publishers, PL Academic Research, Frankfurt a. M .; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Warszawa; Vienna 2016, pp. 253-260, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978-3-653-06277-9 (e-book).

Publications in the internet magazine "Leibniz Online":

  • Chance - observation from a scientific point of view. Internet magazine Leibniz Online, Volume 2012, No. 14, www.leibnizsozietaet.de.
  • Thought transfer and quantum physical entanglement. Internet magazine Leibniz Online, Volume 2013, No. 15, www.leibnizsozietaet.de.
  • Big Data - The great flood of data, theories, models and predictability. Internet magazine Leibniz Online, Volume 2015, No. 18, www.leibnizsozietaet.de
  • Entropy, self-organization and evolution, the exchange of energy. Internet magazine Leibniz Online, Volume 2016, No. 23, www.leibnizsozietaet.de
  • Entropy, information and energy, field effects and entanglement. Internet magazine Leibniz Online, Volume 2017, No. 27, www.leibnizsozietaet.de
  • About the development of knowledge and the rational scientific way of thinking. Internet magazine Leibniz Online, Volume 2018, No. 31, www.leibnizsozietaet.de

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 14, 1971.
  2. ↑ Clemens Winkler Medal ( Memento from June 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Society of German Chemists , accessed on February 9, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kolditz, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and politician (independent), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Albernau