Rudolf Schenck

Rudolf Schenck in Aachen

Friedrich Rudolf Schenck (born March 11, 1870 in Halle (Saale) , † March 28, 1965 in Aachen ) was a German chemist and mineralogist .

Life

Schenck studied physics, botany, chemistry and mathematics at the University of Halle , received his doctorate in 1894 under Jacob Volhard and worked there from 1893 to 1897 as an assistant. In 1897 he received his habilitation at the University of Marburg on the subject of investigations into crystalline liquids , then was assistant and from 1899 head of department at the chemical institute there. In 1906 Schenk was appointed to the newly created chair for physical chemistry at RWTH Aachen University. In 1910 he was offered a position at the TH Breslau , where he was associate professor and founding rector. After that, Schenck finally took over the chair of chemistry at the University of Münster in 1915 . From 1920 to 1925 Schenck was founding chairman of the Association of German Universities (VDH), the forerunner organization of today's university association ; 1929/30 rector of the University of Münster. In 1935 he retired and a year later became director of the “State Research Institute for Metal Chemistry” in Marburg, a position he held until 1950. He spent his retirement in Aachen. From 1933 to 1934 and 1936 to 1941 he was also first chairman of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry .

Friedrich Rudolf Schenck is the father of Hermann Schenck .

Honors

In 1933 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina in Halle.

In 1940 he was awarded the Bunsen commemorative coin of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry.

literature

Franz J. Bauer: History of the German University Association , Munich 2000, p. 15.
Manfred Rasch : Schenck, Friedrich Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 667 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Rudolf Schenck in the catalog of the German National Library
Rudolf Schenck in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present. (PDF; 4.4 MB) Ninth, improved and expanded edition. Chemistry Department at Philipps University, February 2020, p. 73 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Rudolf His	Rector of the University of Münster 1929–1930	Paul Krause

personal data
SURNAME	Schenck, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schenck, Friedrich Rudolf; Schenck, Friedrich R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 1965
Place of death	Aachen

[Uni_Marburg-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present. (PDF; 4.4 MB) Ninth, improved and expanded edition. Chemistry Department at Philipps University, February 2020, p. 73 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .