Theodor Bersin

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Theodor Bersin (born July 26, 1902 in Riga , † May 29, 1967 in St. Gallen ) was a German biochemist and Nazi lecturer leader .

Life

Bersin attended German schools in Riga and Moscow . During his chemistry studies, which he started in 1921, he became a member of the Arminia Königsberg country team . He received his doctorate in 1927 as an academic student of Hans Meerwein at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He then became an assistant in Marburg . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and the SA . In 1935, after completing his habilitation under Friedrich Kutscher, he became a lecturer at the University of Marburg . In 1937/38 and again in 1940/41 Bersin was the deputy leader of the teaching staff and leader of the teaching association at the University of Marburg. From 1938 to 1945 he was a regular associate professor in Marburg and director of the Physiological-Chemical Institute. In 1940 he became deputy Gaudozentenbundführer and in 1943 head of the department for organic and physiological chemistry at the Reich Central Research Center for Eastern Research in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories . His secret research project focused on bio-warfare agents. One of the research assignments concerned the physiological effects of toxic gas warfare agents .

As an active National Socialist, Bersin was dismissed in 1945. From 1945 to 1948 he was interned. In the arbitration chamber proceedings, Bersin was classified as a "follower". In 1950 he became head of the research department at Hausmann AG in St. Gallen.

Bersin examined u. a. the influence of metals and organic catalysts on the oxidation and auto- oxidation of mercapto compounds . He further researched enzymes in which active hydrogen sulfide groups are involved.

Fonts

  • Textbook of Enzymology , 1938 u.ö.
  • Biochemistry of Hormones , 2nd ed. 1960
  • Biocatalysts , from the estate ed. v. Peter Gaudenz Waser , 1968

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 22.
  • Ernst Klee : Who was what before and after 1945? An encyclopedia of persons on the Third Reich , Frankfurt a. M. 2003, p. 43.
  • Christoph Meinel : Chemistry at the University of Marburg since the beginning of the 19th century: A contribution to its development as a university subject. In: Academia Marburgensis , ed. from the Philipps University of Marburg, vol. 3. Marburg: Elwert, 1978, p. 408f full text (PDF; 101 MB) ISBN 3 7708 06 15 8
  • Florian Schmaltz: Warfare agent research in National Socialism: on the cooperation of Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, the military and industry , Göttingen 2005 ISBN 3-89244-880-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 27.
  2. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Bersin, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and Nazi lecturer association leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1967
Place of death St. Gallen