Otto Perutz

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Otto Perutz (born July 27, 1847 in Teplitz , † January 18, 1922 in Munich ) was a German chemist .

Life

Film can for daylight color film Perutz C 18 (18 DIN) The slides developed from it were considered to be particularly color-pure and color-saturated.

His father was the mine owner, owner of the company Beer, Perutz & Sons and a member of the Bohemian state parliament Adolf Perutz (1824-1899).

Otto Perutz studied chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden , where he joined the Corps Teutonia. His interest was soon drawn to photography. The decisive factor here was the first German-language textbook on photography by the Viennese physicist Anton Martin. In 1871 he was already producing silver bromide gelatine drying plates. In Zurich he wrote a diploma thesis on a photochemical topic.

From 1872 to 1876, Perutz was the operations director of the then Bayerische Aktiengesellschaft for chemical and agricultural-chemical products in Munich / Heufeld (today Süd-Chemie AG ). In 1880 Otto Perutz founded the Otto Perutz dry plate factory in Munich, which later became Perutz-Photowerke .

With the development of a process for the industrial production of the eosin silver plates created by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel and Johann Obernetter ( panchromatic sensitization ), Otto Perutz made color-correct black and white photography accessible to the general public. In 1896, Perutz plates were used for the first X-rays .

He sold his factory to the entrepreneur Friedrich Engelhorn in 1897 . Otto Perutz was again employed as a member of the supervisory board of what was then Bayerische Aktiengesellschaft for chemical and agricultural-chemical products from 1902 to 1922.

In 1964, Perutz-Photowerke München- Obersendling , a successful manufacturer of films for decades, was merged with Agfa , which continued to use the Perutz brand name for its own products. Great importance acquired Perutz movies in television , they were as 16 mm - Black and White - reversal films , the standard footage for news and documentary films since the early 1950s until the introduction of color television in the late 1960's.

By resolution of January 23, 2008, the state capital of Munich named a street in the district of Riem-Trudering in Otto-Perutz-Straße.

Awards

  • Gold medal in the photography category (grade 12) at the Paris World's Fair in 1900 .
  • Silver medal (4th department chemicals, apparatus etc.) for Otto Perutz for sensitive resp. Durable, color-sensitive drying plates at the 1889 photographic anniversary exhibition in Berlin.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 100 years of Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention , p. 143.Bochum, 1963
  2. ↑ Official Journal No. 5/2008
  3. ↑ R. Neuhauss (Ed.), E. Juhl (Ed.): Photographische Rundschau , 14th year, Wilhelm Knapp, Halle / S., 1900, 9th issue, (last page without numbering), ( online ).
  4. ^ Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (ed.): Photographische Mittelungen , 26th year, Robert Oppenheim, Berlin, 1890, p. 164, ( SLUB Dresden).
personal data
SURNAME Perutz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplice
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1922
Place of death Munich