Rolf Landsberg

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Rolf Landsberg (born February 28, 1920 in Berlin ; † December 27, 2003 there ) was a German chemist and professor of physical chemistry . From 1962 to 1964 he was rector of the Technical University of Chemistry in Leuna-Merseburg .

Career

Rolf Landsberg was born into a German-Jewish family as the elder of two sons of the architect Max Landsberg and the doctor Hedwig Landsberg, née. Hamburger (1888–1956) born in Berlin. His father died in 1930. Rolf Landsberg began his school education in Berlin in 1927, first in elementary school, then in Heinrich-Kleist-Gymnasium. From 1934 to 1937 he attended the Quaker School St Christopher School in Letchworth, England. He then completed a degree in chemistry in London , which he graduated in 1940. His brother Peter and his mother Hedwig emigrated to Great Britain and Brazil in 1939 .

Rolf Landsberg was interned in Canada until 1942 because he was considered a citizen of a hostile state. Eventually he became a member of the British Army, and here he also worked as an interpreter in Germany.

In 1947 he moved back to Germany and was initially an assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB). Here in 1950 he did his doctorate under Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer on the subject of "Potentials in the Formation of Precipitation Membrane". From 1952 to 1955 he was a lecturer in physical chemistry at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald .

In 1955 he moved to the Technical University of Chemistry in Leuna-Merseburg as a lecturer in physical chemistry. In 1958 he received his habilitation and in 1959 he was appointed professor of physical chemistry. From 1962 to 1964 he was rector of the TH Leuna-Merseburg as the successor to Heinz Schmellenmeier and the briefly incumbent Elmar Profft . In this office he was succeeded by Hans-Joachim Bittrich .

In 1964 he was appointed to the chair for physical chemistry and as director of the Physico-Chemical Institute of the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB) as the successor to Robert Havemann , who had lost his chair prematurely for political reasons.

Landsberg concentrated the main focus of his research work in physical chemistry in particular on the investigation of surfaces. He worked here at HUB until his retirement in 1985.

Landsberg was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) , the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) and, since 1993, the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin . He was buried in the Evangelical Laurentius Kirchhof in Berlin-Köpenick.

family

Rolf Landsberg was married to Ingeborg Landsberg (1928–2001). The couple had three children: Irene, Lutz and Sonja. His brother was the German-English theoretical physicist and applied mathematician Peter T. Landsberg (born August 8, 1922 in Berlin - † February 14, 2010 in Southampton).

Fonts (selection)

  • Potentials in the formation of precipitation membranes. Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 1950.
  • On the kinetics of the covering processes on nickel and zinc anodes. Habilitation thesis, TH for Chemistry Leuna-Merseburg, Faculty of Materials Management 1958.
  • Physical chemistry for component engineers. Multi-part work, part: Briefing 4. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1972 (with H. Löwe).
  • Electrochemical reactions and processes. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1977 (with Horst Bartelt).
  • About a new oxide electrode of high technological value. Zeitschrift für Chemie 20 (1980) 203-207.
  • Problems of the photoelectric use of solar energy. Mitteilungsblatt Chemische Gesellschaft der DDR 28 (1981) 267–270.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Bittrich , Ch. Duschk, G. Fuchs: Carl Schorlemmer . German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1984.
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 318.
  • S. Müller, B. Florath: The dismissal of Robert Havemanns and the AdW. Berlin 1996.
  • Klaus Krug , Hans-Joachim Hörig, Dieter Schnurpfeil (editor): 50 years of the university in Merseburg. Merseburg contributions to the history of the chemical industry in Central Germany, publisher: Förderverein "Sachzeugen der chemical Industrie e.V.", Merseburg, vol. 9, no. 1, 2004.
  • Short biography for:  Landsberg, Rolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal foundation for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship: Landsberg, Rolf
  2. ↑ LANDSBERG, Rolf 1920-2003: [1]
  3. ↑ LANDSBERG, Ingeborg 1928-2001: [2]
personal data
SURNAME Landsberg, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2003
Place of death Berlin