Max Sulzbacher

Max Sulzbacher (born May 8, 1901 in Bamberg , † 1976 in London ) was a German-British biochemist .

Life and activity

Sulzbacher was a son of the hop trader Albert Sulzbacher and his wife Frieda, geb. May. After attending the humanistic grammar school in Bamberg, which he left in July 1920 with the school-leaving certificate, he studied chemistry , natural sciences and economics at the University of Würzburg from 1920 to 1924 . He then moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , where he worked from 1924 to 1926 at the Chemical Institute of the Veterinary University on his dissertation , which he presented in 1927. He passed the oral exam with the grade magna cum laude.

From 1927 to 1933 Sulzbacher was in the service of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin. Allegedly, he is said to have held a professorship in the end, which, according to his short sketch in the book Jews in Bamberg, can no longer be proven, as the university no longer has any relevant documents for the relevant period due to the effects of the war.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in the spring of 1933 Sulzbacher was due to its - by Nazi definition - displaced Jewish ancestry from the civil service. In 1934 he emigrated to Great Britain, where he got a job in Chaim Weizmann's laboratory (Featherstone Laboratory), where he worked until 1939. Sulzbacher then worked in industry and as an independent consultant.

After his emigration, Sulzbacher was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police. In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they would be removed from the occupation troops in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Subsequent SS special commands were to be identified and arrested with special priority. While Sulzbacher escaped persecution due to his stay in Great Britain, his parents were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 , where they were murdered as part of the Holocaust in 1943 .

The main research areas of Sulzbacher, who was also a Fellow of the Chemical Society , were organic and pharmaceutical chemistry.

Fonts

• About conversions of the chlorides of [alpha] -Cyancarboxylic acids , 1927.

literature

• Herbert Loebl : Jews in Bamberg: the decades before the Holocaust , 2000, p. 337.