Max Buchner (chemist)

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"Dr.-Ing. EH, Dr. phil. Max Buchner ”;
Drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1928

Max Franz Christian Buchner (born July 10, 1866 in Bamberg , † April 10, 1934 in Mahlen (Eystrup) ) was a German chemist and business leader.

Life

family

Buchner was the fourth of five children of the publisher Carl Christian Buchner , who gave the CC Buchner Verlag its name , a son of the bookseller Johann Lorenz Buchner and Dorothea née Morg . Max Buchner's mother was Elise , daughter of the medical councilor Johann Baptist Seilböck and the Ludovika Countess von Berghe zu Trips .

Max Buchner married Sophie , née Rottenhöfer , in 1888 , with whom he had five daughters, including Irma , who married the chemist Wilhelm Eduard Bachmann .

Career

After the sudden death of his father in 1886, Max Buchner initially took over the company together with his brother Fritz (1858–1909) and was only able to study chemistry from 1892. He studied at the Technical University of Munich and at the University of Würzburg, where he received his doctorate in electrochemistry in 1898 under Arthur Hantzsch . He then worked for CF Boehringer and Sons in Mannheim (from 1898 as head of department), from 1912 to 1917 as a freelance expert and management consultant (and from 1913 owner of Dr. Dittrich's chemical laboratory in Heidelberg).

Max Buchner had already gained the respect of the professional world at a young age: he had invented the artificial corundum in southern Germany and was also known for his work on electrochemical topics.

In 1917 - in the middle of the First World War - Buchner went to Hanover , where he initially worked as a chief chemist, as "Laboratory Director" at Riedel de Haen in Seelze . During the war he began to work out the Alaton process for the extraction of aluminum from domestic alumina . Later he developed the Kiflu process "[...] for the extraction of soda and caustic soda using fluorine chemistry ". Buchner soon became technical director at Riedel de Häen.

From 1918 onwards, Buchner co-founded the chemical apparatus department in the Association of German Chemists.

In 1920, Bunsen founded the exhibition for chemical apparatus , the Achema , which first took place in Hanover and was a great success, so that DECHEMA was founded in 1926 on the initiative of Buchner .

Meanwhile, from 1922, when Riedel de Häen had been converted into a stock corporation, Buchner had taken on a post on the board of the AG, which he retained until 1934.

At the end of the 1920s, Max Buchner was also honorary chairman of DECHEMA, which he founded, was a member of the board of the Association of German Chemists , sat on the presidium of the German Standards Committee and - as the successor to Henry Theodor von Böttinger - held the office of treasurer of the German Bunsen Society .

Honors

Busts

In the middle of 1950 there existed three busts by Buchner created by the sculptor Georg Hartje , one each in the possession of Luise Jancke-Buchner , of “[...] Frau Dr. D. Dautzenberg-Buchner ”and DECHEMA in Frankfurt am Main .

Fonts (selection)

Buchner's multiple inventions are laid down in numerous patents . In addition to numerous articles in specialist journals, he also published:

  • On starch and salt formation of nitramines and isonitramines, as well as acid amides , dissertation at the University of Würzburg, 1899
  • Memorandum on the goals and tasks of the specialist group for chemical apparatus , 1920
  • (Ed.): From science and antiquarian bookshop. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Gustav Fock bookstore , Leipzig 1929

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buchner, Max Franz Christian in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek , last accessed on April 27, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Maren Saiko, Christopher Schell (Responsible): CC Buchner Publishing History on the ccbuchner.de page , last accessed on April 27, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c d Luise Jancke-Buchner: Buchner, Max Franz Christian In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 2 (1955), p. 708; online version as German biography
  4. ↑ a b c d e f N.N. : Dr.-Ing. EH, Dr. phil. Max Buchner. In: August Heitmüller (drawings): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature. (August Heitmüller drew the heads. Wilhelm Metzig designed the entire equipment of the plant.), Vol. 1, Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover 1929, without consecutive page numbering
personal data
SURNAME Buchner, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchner, Max Franz Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and business leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1934
Place of death Grinding (Eystrup)