Paul Köthner

Paul Köthner , also known under the pseudonyms Renatus Ram and Ernst Freymann , (born June 7, 1870 in Berlin ; † July 23, 1932 there ; full name: Paul Wilhelm Albert Köthner ) was a German chemist and anti-Semitic writer .

Life

Köthner attended grammar schools in Berlin and Greifswald and passed the school leaving examination in Greifswald in 1890 . He studied chemistry , physics and mathematics at the University of Berlin and Halle University , as well as philosophy , anthropology and psychology . With his dissertation "On rubidium and some observations on acetylene" in 1896 he attended the University of Halle doctorate .

In 1897 he finished his military service as a lieutenant in the reserve . He then worked as a private assistant for Hugo Erdmann . In 1901 he completed his habilitation at the University of Halle with the text "Pure tellurium and its atomic weight" for chemistry. His inaugural lecture dealt with "Goldmaking in the Middle Ages and in the Present".

Together with Erdmann, Köthner moved to the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , where he worked as a teaching assistant in the inorganic laboratory from 1903. With Erdmann, Köthner published a textbook on inorganic chemistry in 1905 ( natural constants in alphabetical order, auxiliary book for chemical and physical calculations ). In 1906 he completed his habilitation a second time at the University of Berlin. In 1918 he was retired .

After the First World War , Köthner published anti-Semitic writings under pseudonyms such as Renatus Ram and Ernst Freymann and supported Erich Ludendorff's policies .

Fonts

• Renatus Ram: Godhood and Judaism. Guide to the German future . Verlag Gesundes Leben Dr. Hotz, Rudolstadt 1921.
• Ernst Freymann (arr.): On the Paths of International Freemasonry. Contributions to the history of the present. Tannenbergbund, Wittingen 1931.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Köthner . In: catalogus-professorum-halensis.de .