Victor Bayerl

Victor Bayerl (born April 8, 1903 in Lodz (today: Poland), † May 11, 1982 in Leipzig ) was a German physical chemist .

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Bayerl grew up in Berlin and graduated from the Mommsen-Gymnasium there in 1923 in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district . He completed his chemistry studies in 1929 with a diploma and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. Degree in physical chemistry with Max Volmer at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg in November 1930 . PhD. He wrote his dissertation on the subject of "droplet formation in supersaturated vapors". During this time he was research assistant with Max Volmer at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg. After completing his doctorate, he switched to industry and came to Pintsch Bamag AG in 1934 via an interim position at the Auergesellschaft . There he played a key role in the planning, construction and implementation of plants for processing petroleum products all over the world. He was also involved in the large-scale implementation of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis .

After the war, in 1945 he accepted an invitation from Max Volmer, who had already been committed to the Soviet Union . In Moscow he was told that he should be involved in the development of the Soviet atomic bomb . After a short stopover in Agudseri near Sukhumi , the group was transferred to Moscow. In the Volmer group, he (together with Gustav Richter and Soviet employees) was responsible for the planning and construction of a plant for the industrial extraction of heavy water by fractional distillation of ammonia containing deuterium . The plant was built in Norilsk in Siberia . In 1955 Bayerl returned to Germany and via a stopover at the Institute for Organic-Chemical Industry in Leipzig (Director: Eberhard Leibnitz ) came to the Chemical Design and Engineering Office (KIB Chemie) in Leipzig, whose director he was in 1956 until he retired in 1956 1969 was. The KIB Chemie later became part of the Leipzig-Grimma chemical plant construction . In 1966 he was given an extraordinary professorship with a teaching position for the planning of chemical plants at the Faculty of Process Engineering and Basic Sciences at the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg . He retired in 1969 and died in Leipzig in 1982.

Bayerl was the owner of five patents and the author and co-editor of specialist publications.

Fonts

• with Martin Quarg (Hrsg.): Taschenbuch des Chemietechnologen . VEB German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1963, DNB 454996101 .
• with Hans-Georg Strauss (Ed.): The preliminary calculation for investments in the chemical industry . VEB German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1968, DNB 458553549 .

literature

• Ulrich Albrecht, Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, Arend Wellmann: The specialists: German scientists and technicians in the Soviet Union after 1945. Dietz, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-320-01788-8 , p. 69ff.
• Pavel V. Oleynikov: German Scientists in the Soviet Atomic Project. The Nonproliferation Review. Volume 7, Number 2, 2000, pp. 1-30. (PDF; 144 kB).
• Alfred Neubauer: If already a ruin, then an imposing ruin. In: Spectrum. 21, No. 6, 1990, pp. 30-31.
• Rudolf Arthur Pose: German Scientists and Specialists in the Soviet Nuclear Project . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-96023-199-8 , p. 168 ff.