Rudolf Pummerer

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Rudolf Pummerer (born July 26, 1882 in Wels , † November 7, 1973 in Seehausen am Staffelsee ) was an Austro-German chemist .

Life

Born in Upper Austria as the son of the linseed oil manufacturer of the same name (1855–1926), Rudolf Pummerer first attended high school in Kremsmünster . After the family moved from Wels to Munich , he moved from 1896 to Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1900, with the later painter Hermann Ebers (1881–1955) and Karl Arthur Lange , among others . He then studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Adolf von Baeyer , Heinrich Wieland and Johannes Thiele and received his doctorate in 1905 with Richard Willstätter . From 1906 he worked as a laboratory chemist at the Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , from 1908 as a private scholar at the State Laboratory in Munich. After his habilitation in 1911, he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Munich, from 1914 on with a teaching position for chemical technology . After the outbreak of war, he was hired as an assistant chemist at the Ingolstadt powder factory. In 1917 he worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, from 1919 back at the University of Munich and from 1921 there as associate professor for organic chemistry and head of the organic department at the state laboratory. In 1923 he was appointed institute director with the rank of full professor of chemistry at the University of Greifswald , in 1925 in the same capacity at the University of Erlangen and from 1931 to 1933 with the function of rector . Emil Buchta was one of his doctoral students (1935). Retired in 1951, he continued to manage the institute until 1952.

His research areas were u. a. the chemistry of free radicals and sulfoxides , the results of which he u. a. published in the reports of the German Chemical Society Berlin. He was also editor (1947/48) or co-editor (1949/50) of the journal “Angewandte Chemie” and editor of the “Collection of chemical and technical lectures” (since 1937). The Pummerer rearrangement he discovered bears his name.

In 1940 he was made a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • About Pyron . Inaugurial dissertation. Höfling, Munich 1905.
  • Investigations in the indigo group . Habilitation thesis. Höfling, Munich 1911.
  • About the constitution of dehydronaphthols and the preparation of dehydro- [α-bromo-β-naphthol]. (4th communication) on the oxidation of phenols , in: Reports of the German Chemical Society (A and B Series), Nerlin, July 12, 1919, Vol. 52 (7), pp. 1403-1413.
  • Organic chemistry. Edited by R. Pummerer (Scientific Research Reports, Natural Science Series, Vol. 3). Theodor Steinkopf, Dresden and Leipzig 1921.
  • Development and achievements of organic structure theory , speech given on the occasion of the takeover of the rectorate on November 4, 1931. Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1931.
  • Comment on my work with L. Seligsberger “About 4.4 derivatives of sexiphenyl and quaterphenyl” , in: Reports of the German Chemical Society (A and B Series), Berlin, May 3, 1933, Vol. 66 (5), p. 802 -802.
  • Organic chemistry overview table. With index and explanations. A revision course. Enke, Stuttgart 1936.
  • Chemical textile fibers, films and foils. Basics and technology. With the collaboration of CA Bodenstein and others, ed. by Rudolf Pummerer, Enke, Stuttgart 1951.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1899/1900
  2. see OPAC of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (online)