Oskar Dressel

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Oskar Dressel
Birthplace in Sonneberg, Untere Marktstrasse 34
Last resting place: Greiner family crypt chapel in Limbach

Oskar Dressel (born September 19, 1865 in Sonneberg ; † February 12, 1941 in Bonn ) was a German chemist and researcher in the field of azo dyes . He managed the chemical representation of the drugs - drug suramin , with the sleeping sickness was defeated.

Life

Oskar Dressel grew up with three siblings in Sonneberg in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . His great-grandfather was Gotthelf Greiner , the inventor of Limbach porcelain and founder of the Limbach AG porcelain factory , which existed from 1772 to 1944. In Sonneberg he attended elementary school and trade school. With his hometown, he was a member of the holiday connection Solmontia zu Sonneberg under his couleur name “Faust”, which also included Reinhold von Walther , who was almost the same age and grew up in the neighborhood . Via the grammar school in Erfurt he came to study at the universities in Heidelberg , Munich and Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in chemistry in 1889 . His professional career first began in Görlitz . In 1891 he moved to Bayer & Co. in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ). In a longstanding, extremely successful working group with his friend and research colleague Richard Kothe (1863–1925), he discovered and developed more than fifty different synthetic colors.

After Bayer joined the paint industry's interest group in 1904 , the research team began to work increasingly in the field of therapeutic products. In the middle of World War I , Oskar Dressel, in collaboration with Richard Kothe and the physician Wilhelm Roehl, succeeded in synthesizing the active ingredient for the drug "Bayer 205" , the first effective remedy for tropical trypanosomal diseases.

Oskar Dressel was appointed authorized signatory of IG Farben AG for his research results , the Association of German Chemists honored him in 1924 with the Adolf von Baeyer commemorative coin (with Kothe and Bernhard Heymann , who was also involved in the Suramin development as laboratory manager), and the medical faculty of the University of Leipzig awarded him an honorary doctorate . After 40 years with the company, Oskar Dressel retired in 1931. Until his death he lived in Cologne and Bonn . He found his final resting place in the Greiner family crypt on Petersberg in what is now the Limbach district of Steinheid .

References

  • Hellmuth Unger : Germanin - history of a German great deed. Neues Volk publishing house, Berlin 1938.
  • Jutta Dressel: History of Germanine and the fight against sleeping sickness and its related tropical diseases. Bonn University Print Shop Scheur, Bonn 1941.
  • Horst-Bernd Dünschede: Tropical medicine research at Bayer. Michael Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1971.

Web links

Commons : Oskar Dressel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ M. Scheller (1909): Directory of members of the AH-Verein Solmontia. In: Report on the 25th anniversary celebration of the "Solmontia". Pp. 13-14. Sonneberg: Graves & Hetzer. Library of the German Toy Museum. Signature SI 1302 .
  2. ↑ M. Scheller (1909): Report on the 25th anniversary of the "Solmontia" foundation festival. Sonneberg: Graves & Hetzer. Library of the German Toy Museum. Signature SI 1302 .
personal data
SURNAME Dressel, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dressel, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and researcher in the field of azure dyes
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonneberg
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1941
Place of death Bonn