Ludwig Holleck

Ludwig Franz Holleck (born April 2, 1904 in Vienna , † September 21, 1976 in Konstanz ) was an Austrian chemist .

Life

From 1922 Holleck studied chemistry at the Technical University of Vienna, where he was assistant to Wolf Johannes Müller , from whom he received his doctorate in 1930. In 1934/35 he was a research assistant at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin. He was then assistant to Walter Noddack at the University of Freiburg, where he completed his habilitation in 1937 and was a private lecturer in physical chemistry. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in 1940/41 managed the treasury of the Nazi lecturers' association in Freiburg. In 1941 he became an adjunct professor of physical chemistry at the University of Strasbourg and, after the end of the war, until 1950 professor of inorganic chemistry at the Philosophical-Theological University of Bamberg. From 1949 to 1955 he was an adjunct professor of physical chemistry in Freiburg, from 1952 to 1954 he was a deputy professor in Hamburg and from 1955 to 1961 an adjunct professor in Hamburg. From 1961 he was professor of chemistry at the University of Bamberg, whose rector he was from 1965 to 1967. In 1972 he retired.

Since his time at Noddack he has dealt with the chemistry of rare earths , determined their valences and developed separation processes with ion exchangers and complex chemical methods, and later with electrochemistry (organic polarography , electrochemical reactions of organic compounds).

Fonts

• Physical chemistry and its computational application: Thermodynamics, Springer 1950

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 285

Web links

• Biography and publications at the University of Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annelore Fischer in Pötsch, Lexicon of important chemists. According to the website of the University of Hamburg, freelancer and author until 1949.