Paul Askenasy
Paul Askenasy (born August 27, 1869 in Grünhübel , † December 25, 1938 in Berlin or Buenos Aires ) was a German electrochemist .
Life
He was the son of a landowner from the outskirts of Wroclaw . After attending the St. Maria Magdalena grammar school in Wroclaw, he went to study chemistry and natural sciences at the Wroclaw University and the University of Heidelberg. As assistant to Victor Meyer , he successfully defended his dissertation in 1892, the subject of which was Contributions to the knowledge of the processes involved in the slow combustion of explosive gas mixtures .
From 1894 to 1902 Paul Askenasy was director of the accumulator works in Marly-le-Grand near Freiburg in Switzerland and of the accumulator works Pollak AG in Frankfurt am Main and Vienna. In 1902 he got a job at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.
On March 25, 1903, he joined the consortium for the electrochemical industry in Nuremberg and was its first managing director until 1908. During this time he was commissioned by Alexander Wacker to focus more on the raw material calcium carbide and its possible uses.
In 1908 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, where he worked as a private lecturer. At the same time Paul Askenasy took over the editing of the "Journal for Electrochemistry and Applied Physical Chemistry", which he held until 1923.
In 1910 he became associate professor and from 1920 full professor for chemical engineering and director of the chemical-technical institute at the Technical University in Karlsruhe . During this time, he presented several scientific publications dealing with chemical technologies and electrochemistry. Askenasy discovered the production of chlorinated hydrocarbon compounds based on calcium carbide, after which the consortium for the electrochemical industry was granted several patents.
After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was short on 5 April 1933 and then finally transferred in July 1933 on the basis of § 3 of the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" because of his Jewish origin to retire.
Fonts (selection)
- Introduction to technical electrochemistry, Volume 1 Elektrothermie , Braunschweig, 1910.
- Introduction to technical electrochemistry, Volume 2 Selected chapters on the electrolysis of aqueous solutions and the extraction of aluminum , Braunschweig, 1910.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 40.
- Askenasy, Paul , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 13
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Askenasy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry at leo-bw.de
- Biography with portrait photo on the homepage of Wacker Chemie AG
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Askenasy, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German electrochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünhübel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1938 |
| Place of death | Berlin or Buenos Aires |