Richard Henke

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Richard Henke (around 1960)
Richard Henke (left) with his son-in-law Richard Gach hiking in the mountains in Salzburg (1957/58)

Richard Henke (* 1900 in Korneuburg , † October 1963 in Vienna ) was an Austrian chemist and inventor.

Live and act

Richard Henke graduated from the Technical University of Vienna as a graduate engineer and then a doctorate engineer . In the 1920s, various papers on molecular compounds emerged together with u. a. Georg Weissenberger and Fritz Schuster . These scientific papers were published in specialist journals such as the Journal for Practical Chemistry , the Journal for Inorganic and General Chemistry and the Chemisches Zentralblatt . His work was also published in the meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna's mathematical and natural science class .

Richard Henke was assistant professor of chemistry at the Technical University until he was on leave for political reasons by the National Socialists . In the late 1930s and 1940s he worked as a chemist at Wander AG in Vienna. He was able to pursue this occupation in spite of his earlier home defense activity during the Nazi era . Due to his high reputation as a chemical specialist, he was able to avoid deportation to a concentration camp. During his time at Wander, Henke also worked on the further development of the malt beverage Ovomaltine .

After the war, Richard Henke headed the chemistry evening school at the Vienna HTL Schellinggasse . Then Henke worked at the higher federal teaching and research institute for the chemical industry in Vienna in Rosensteingasse in the research area "chemistry and chemical technology". There he headed the company laboratory in the mechanical engineering and electrical engineering departments and was administrator of the chemical-technical laboratory. Henke also developed a shoe polish, but it did not go into production. In 1963, shortly before his death, he was appointed director of the Federal Higher Education and Research Institute for the Chemical Industry. However, he was no longer able to take up this position due to a sudden heart attack that led to death. Richard Henke was buried in the family grave in the Ober Sankt Veiter cemetery .

family

Richard Henke married the native of Upper St. Veit on 15 September 1957 Stockerauerin Adele Havlicek (1912-1992 in Vienna-Hietzing), with whom he had two daughters. The architect Richard Gach was his son-in-law.

Awards

Writings and works (selection)

  • 1958: Kunststoffe introduce themselves , Society for Nature and Technology, in Universum: Nature and Technology, Volume 13, pp. 332–335.
  • 1956: Fabrics made from ashantine nuts , Society for Nature and Technology, in Universum: Nature and Technology, Volume 11, from p. 344.
  • Via arithmetic sequences of numbers of a higher order .
  • 1926: Knowledge of binary liquid mixtures. Some new constants 115, 75. In: Journal für Praxis Chemie (1939)
  • with Fanny Kawenoki : Systems with Nitrobenzol u. Oxynitrobenzolen 113, 171. In: Journal for practical chemistry (1939)
  • with Fritz Schuster : Considerations about the vapor pressure 113, 180. In: Journal für Praespert Chemie (1939)
  • with Georg Weissenberger and Fritz Schuster (1926): On the knowledge of organic molecular compounds. XVIII. Ways to calculate molar fraction. In: Journal for inorganic and general chemistry, Volume 152, Issue 1, pages 325-332
  • with Georg Weissenberger and Fritz Schuster (1925): About the molecular compounds of phenols. VIII. The localization of the residual valence force field. - Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class 134_2b: 47–56.
  • with Georg Weissenberger and Fritz Schuster (1925): On the knowledge of organic molecular compounds. IX. The group - CCl3. - Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class 134_2b: 57–60.
  • with Georg Weissenberger and Lazar Bregmann (1925): On the knowledge of organic molecular compounds. XVI. Dihydric phenols and their ethers. - Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class 134_2b: 471–482.
  • with Georg Weissenberger and Eugen Sperling (1925): On the knowledge of organic molecular compounds. XVII. The behavior of decahydronaphthalene. - Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class 134_2b: 483–497
  • with Georg Weissenberger and Stanislaus Baumgarten (1925): About the adsorption on coal from viscous media. - Session reports of the Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class 134_2b: 679–700
  • with Georg Weißenberger and Lazar Bregmann (1925): On the knowledge of organic molecular compounds. In: Monthly books for chemistry / Chemical Monthly 01/1925; 46 (7): 471-482.
  • with Georg Weissenberger and F. Sperlin (1925): New ways of gas scrubbing V. Studies with the help of loading curves. In: Angewandte Chemie 01/1925; 38 (51): 1161-1164
  • with Georg Weissenberger and Fanny Kawenoki: Knowledge of binary liquid mixtures . XXII. Systems with nitrobenzene and the oxynitrobenzenes.
  • with Georg Weissenberger and Hedwig Katschinka (1924): On the knowledge of binary liquid mixtures XX. Systems with substituted hydronaphthalenes. In: The advances in organic chemistry since the year, by Erich Lehmann
  • with Georg Weissenberger: On the knowledge of binary liquid mixtures. XXI. Systems with butyric acid

Web links

Commons : Richard Henke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author: Henke, Richard: Search In: wiley.com , accessed June 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ Chemisches Zentralblatt . tape 1 . Chemie, GmbH, 1927, p. 1261 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Writings by Richard Henke on ZOBODAT
  4. ^ Johannes Koll: "Cleansing" at Austrian Universities 1934-1945 Requirements, processes, consequences . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-205-20336-0 , p. 250–251 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Juliane Mikoletzky, Paulus Ebner: The Technical University in Vienna 1914–1955. Part 2: National Socialism - War - Reconstruction (1938–1955) . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20132-8 , pp. 182 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Festschrift [of] the Federal Trade School in Vienna I; 1880-1955 . Federal Trade School, 1955, p. 195 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ Austrian engineering journal . tape 6 . Springer-Verlag, 1963, p. 441 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Henke, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Korneuburg
DATE OF DEATH October 1963
Place of death Vienna