Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research

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The Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research in Munich went from one in September 1922 with the participation of the Central Association of the German leather industry and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society gegründetem Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Leather Research (KWI for Leather Research) in Dresden forth. It was one of the three Max Planck Institutes which merged in 1973 to create the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich. The Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research ceased to exist in 1973.

historical development

The first director of the KWI for Leather Research in Dresden was Max Bergmann , who was dismissed as a Jew in 1933 and had to emigrate. His successor was Wolfgang Grassmann , a student of Richard Willstätter and Heinrich Wieland . The 1938–1942 expanded institute in Dresden was on 13./14. February 1945 completely destroyed by an Anglo-American bomb attack. The main area of ​​work was improvements in tanning technology for efficient leather production.

In 1948/49 the research center for protein and leather in Regensburg was operated as a follow-up institute , and from 1954 work on leather research could be resumed at the newly founded Max Planck Institute for protein and leather research in Regensburg under its director Wolfgang Grassmann. From 1957 the institute moved to the Physiological Chemistry rooms of the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. The main area of ​​work was structural elucidation of the connective tissue protein collagen . The last institute director from 1966 was Klaus Kühn , who accompanied the merger into the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in 1973 and there headed the department for connective tissue research that had emerged from the Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Florian Schmaltz: Warfare research in National Socialism: on the cooperation of Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, the military and industry , (= History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism Volume 11), Wallstein Verlag, 2005, p. 292 ( excerpts in Google -Books ).
  2. ↑ See Anne Sudrow: Dresden – Munich. The Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research . In: Peter Gruß, Reinhard Rürup (Hrsg.): Denkorte. Max Planck Society and Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Breaks and continuities 1911–2011 . Berlin 2010, pp. 214-221.
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