Paul Duden
Paul Duden (born October 30, 1868 in Soest , † February 7, 1954 in Oberstdorf ) was a German chemist and industrialist.
life and work
Duden was a son of the linguist Konrad Duden and Adeline Duden. His son was the lawyer Herdin Hans Duden , his granddaughter is the historian Barbara Duden .
He studied in Halle and Marburg, at Carl Gräbe in Geneva and Emil Fischer in Wurzburg, doctorate at Ludwig Knorr at the University of Jena with a dissertation on contributions to the theory of pyrazole Dr. phil., became a private lecturer and associate professor there. With work on pyrazoles , hydrazine , aliphatic dinitro compounds , aminocamphores , camphenamine, bornylenediamine and dicamphenpyrazine, he was one of the most prominent representatives of organic chemistry of his time.
In 1905 he joined the Hoechst paintworks as head of the azo color company . He later took over the management of the central laboratory and developed important new processes in acetylene chemistry, including the catalytic oxidation of acetylene to acetaldehyde , acetic acid and acetone .
After founding IG Farbenindustrie , he became a member of the board and head of the Mittelrhein operating group in 1925. In 1932 he retired into private life. His successor as plant manager was Ludwig Hermann . (Duden's son Herdin Hans, who passionately sympathized with the German war of aggression and was a Hitler Youth functionary, was supposed to work as an authorized signatory at IG Farben-AG in Ludwigshafen while he was still studying law.)
Duden held management positions in numerous organizations and associations in the chemical industry, including as chairman of the chemical trade association and chairman of the Association of German Chemists . From 1938 to 1952 he was chairman of the Marburg University Association .
In 1933 he became Vice President of the German Chemical Society as part of the " Aryanization " of the board of directors and succeeded his Jewish predecessor Arthur Rosenheim . Technology historian Helmut Maier sees it as "[...] not only the most important protagonist of the policy of harmonization in the chemical associations in this phase".
From 1888 he was a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg .
The DECHEMA made him an honorary member of the University of Marburg Honorary Senator, the University of Frankfurt awarded him the 1930 h Doctor of Science. c. A street in Kriftel is named after Paul Duden .
literature
- Duden, Paul . In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 352.
- Angewandte Chemie , Volume 51, No. 43 (1938), page 727f.
- Ernst Fischer: Duden, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 154 ( digitized version ).
- Stephan H. Lindner: Hoechst. An IG Farben plant in the Third Reich. CH Beck, 2005, ISBN 3-406-52959-3
Web links
- Newspaper article about Paul Duden in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ residenz-pforzheim.de accessed on September 27, 2015.
- ↑ Alexander Michel: From the factory newspaper to the guide. Factory journals of large industrial companies from 1890 to 1945 . Stuttgart 1997, SD 378.
- ↑ Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy (= texts and materials on contemporary history, 13). De Gruyter Saur, Munich 2003, p. 548.
- ↑ Helmut Maier: Chemists in the “Third Reich”. The German Chemical Society and the Association of German Chemists in the Nazi regime . Weinheim 2015, p. 82.
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 102 , 707.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duden, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soest |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th February 1954 |
| Place of death | Oberstdorf |