Otto Neunhoeffer

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Otto Neunhoeffer (born October 17, 1904 in Stuttgart , † October 2, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German chemist and university professor.

Life

As the son of an ophthalmologist, he graduated from high school and studied chemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart . In 1930 he was with the thesis on " About the Isomeriemöglichkeiten the dicyclohexyl " doctorate . Neunhoeffer became a lecturer at the University of Greifswald in 1933 and in 1935 switched to the combined organic-chemical institute of the university and the Technical University of Breslau , where he became professor of organic chemistry in 1941. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . In 1945 Otto Neunhoeffer became the main speaker and in 1952 director at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1960 he had to leave the GDR to avoid imminent arrest. Afterwards he taught and researched at Saarland University , Saarbrücken.

In the 1950s Otto Neunhoeffer experimented with the professor of lighting technology and physical electronics at the University of Karlsruhe, Paul Schulz , on metal halide lamps , but could not achieve any commercial success.

In later years Otto Neunhoeffer dealt intensively with cancer diagnostics and was able to a. prove that cancer patients pathologically increasingly excrete hydroxylamine compounds in the urine , which are caused by metabolic disorders.

Since 1959 he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and an external member since 1969 .

Otto Neunhoeffer was the father of the chemist Hans Neunhoeffer .

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Neunhoeffer published 92 articles in international journals, was involved in 16 patents and was the author of 6 chemical textbooks.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Hofmann: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Volume 1; Volume 18, Issue 18, Page 3717, KG Saur, 2001.
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .
  3. ^ A b Siegfried Dähne : Otto Neunhoeffer and the GDR policy . In: News from chemistry, technology and the laboratory . tape 47 , no. 3 , March 1999, p. 341 , doi : 10.1002 / nadc.19990470329 .
personal data
SURNAME Neunhoeffer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1998
Place of death Berlin