Rudolf Grewe

Rudolf Grewe (born October 4, 1910 in Münster , † October 26, 1968 in Borgdorf) was a German chemist and university professor.

biography

Grewe spent his childhood in Münster, where he graduated from high school in 1929. He then enrolled at the University of Münster , where he first attended lectures in mathematics . After a large experimental lecture in chemistry, he changed the subject, which he then completed at the end of 1931 with the first chemical association examination.

When he had passed his second association examination at the University of Göttingen in early 1933 , Adolf Windaus applied as an employee with the aim of writing a doctoral thesis. At the end of 1934 Grewe wrote a dissertation "On the antineuritic vitamin ( vitamin B ₁ )" and was awarded a doctorate by Adolf Windaus at the University of Göttingen. phil. PhD .

Grewe joined the NSDAP and the SA in 1937 . During the Second World War he was from 1941 Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg .

After the end of the war he taught and researched at the University of Kiel from 1948 , where he also headed the Institute for Organic Chemistry.

In 1968 Grewe died in a car accident .

He made an important contribution to the research of vitamin B ₁ , the structural formula of which he corrected.

literature

• Rudolf Grewe: About the antineuritic vitamin . Göttingen, Grone 1935.
• Rudolf Grewe: Syntheses in the Morphine Series . Hoppe-Seyler's Journal for Physiological Chemistry , 1940.

Web links

• Article on the structural formula of vitamin B ₁ (PDF; 483 kB).
• Hans Henecka: Rudolf Grewe 1910 - 1968. In: Chemical reports. 111, 1978, pp. I-XXVII, doi : 10.1002 / cber.19781110932 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Kiel: Christiana Albertina, volumes 7-10, page 94, K. Wachholtz-Verlag, 1969.
2. ^ Louis Fieser , Mary Fieser : Organische Chemie , Verlag Chemie Weinheim, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 1451, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 .
3. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Rudolf Grewe at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 200.
5. ↑ Klaus Beneke: The History of the University of Kiel and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Part I .
6. ↑ A. Windaus, R. Tschesche, R. Grewe: About the antineuritic vitamin. (3rd part.). ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 483 kB) In: Hoppe-Seyler's magazine for physiological chemistry. 228, 1934, pp. 27-32, doi : 10.1515 / bchm2.1934.228.1-2.27 .