Moritz Freiberger

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Moritz Freiberger (born May 2, 1861 in Proßnitz in Moravia , † May 26, 1937 in Berlin ) was a German textile chemist and entrepreneur.

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After attending grammar school in Proßnitz, he completed a four-year engineering course at the Technical University in Vienna. He then attended the higher dyeing school there for a year. After four years of professional experience, he then worked for 25 years as the director of the SF Goldberger & S. textile factory in Budapest , where special calico printing was produced. On the basis of this many years of professional experience, he invented a special printing and dyeing process and applied for numerous patents in Germany and abroad. After initially working as a private lecturer , he was appointed extraordinary professor for textile chemistry at the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1921 . For political reasons he was expelled from this teaching position in 1933 and retired, after which he temporarily moved to Prague . However, he returned to Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he also died.

Freiberger was a member of several scientific societies, so u. a. Chairman of the German section of the International Association of Chemists-Colorists. He was married to Adele Braun (* May 6, 1873, † September 26, 1942). Both final resting places are in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Patents

  • Etching method for indigo floors. DE 228694 1908.
  • Bleaching process. US 1,061,392 of May 13, 1913. (with Walther Mathesius)
  • Process of producing patterns on fabrics. US 1,080,433 dated December 2, 1913.
  • Improvements in or relating to the treatment of fibers, fibrous materials, fabrics and leather with liquids. GB 146225 Oct. 1921.
  • Improvements in apparatus for washing woven fabrics. GB 322219 Dec. 1929.
  • Improvements in apparatus for the liquid treatment of textile materials. GB 329526 May 1930.
  • Process of treating vegetable or artificial fibers or fiber material. US 1927363 dated September 19, 1933.
  • Improvements in and releting to alkaline treatment baths for vegetable and regenerated cellulose fibers. GB 398958 Sept 1933.
  • Improvements in and relating to process for the treatment of textile and fibrous materials GB 425689 March 1935.

literature

  • Friedrich Jaksch: Lexicon of Sudeten German writers and their works for the years 1900–1929, Reichenberg 1929, p. 68.
  • Who is it 10.A. (1935), p. 345
personal data
SURNAME Freiberger, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Proßnitz in Moravia
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1937
Place of death Berlin