Sven-Peter Mannsfeld

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Sven-Peter Mannsfeld (born July 24, 1935 in Riga , Republic of Latvia ) is a German-American industrial chemist in Alabama.

Life

Mannsfeld studied chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1959 he was in the Corps Teutonia Hercynia Göttingen recipiert . In 1964 he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. PhD. In the same year he began to work for Degussa in Cologne plants. In 1971 he came to the Degussa headquarters in Frankfurt am Main . He was responsible for project management for research , development and production . After two years, he was commissioned to look for a suitable production site in the United States . Mannsfeld found him in Alabama . In 1989 he was granted citizenship of the United States . He became President of Degussa Alabama in 1973 and Technical Vice President of all Degussa plants in the United States in 1977. He was responsible for the establishment of Mercedes-Benz US International . In 1999 he joined the Board of Directors of Degussa-Hüls and the Atlantic Marine shipyard . In 2000 he retired. His many memberships and honorary positions include the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science , Mobile's Chamber of Commerce, the National Audubon Society , Ducks Unlimited , utility Alabama Power, and the Alabama Wildlife Federation. Sonny Callahan honored him on the occasion of his retirement on September 18, 2000 in the House of Representatives of the United States .

In 2004 Mannsfeld learned that Ineos Phenol was using a process he had discovered that made it possible to produce carbon black for tire manufacture from a phenol by-product . He then initiated a lawsuit ( Mannsfeld v. Ineos Phenol, et al. ) Because of the infringement of intellectual property . A jury in Mobile found him right in 2008 and sentenced Ineos and Evonik-Degussa to damages of US $ 192 million. This was the third highest damages judgment in the USA in 2008. After an appeals court rejected the companies' appeal in the second instance in 2009, Mannsfeld and the companies agreed on damages of US $ 40 million. Another trial Sven Peter Mannsfeld v. Evonik Degussa Corporation et al , which dealt with Mannsfeld's inventions in the field of fertilizers, was tried in a US federal court in 2011 and referred back to the courts of the state of Alabama.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 172/323.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: New types of photochemical four-ring and six-ring syntheses. About novel representations of Diels-Alder adducts .
  3. ↑ Tribute to Dr. Sven-Peter Mannsfeld (govinfo.gov)
  4. ↑ $ 192 million Alabama mega-verdict settled out for $ 40 million, lawyers say , accessed July 28, 2020
  5. ↑ Entry in the US federal courts database, accessed July 28, 2020
  6. ↑ Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
personal data
SURNAME Mannsfeld, Sven-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial chemist and entrepreneur in Alabama
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Republic of Latvia