Victor Josef Karl Engelhardt

Victor Josef Karl Engelhardt (born October 26, 1866 in Vienna , † March 9, 1944 in Berlin ) was an Austro-German chemist (technical electrochemistry ).

Engelhardt was the son of a businessman from Trieste , attended secondary school there and also worked at the Biological Station in Trieste. He studied natural sciences (anatomy, botany, zoology) with a later focus on chemistry at the Technical University of Vienna , graduating as a graduate engineer in 1889. He then went to Siemens & Halske in Vienna and from 1905 to Berlin (Siemensstadt). He stayed with Siemens until his retirement in 1932, was head of the Gesellschaft für Elektrostahlanlagen mbH from 1907 and was also a lecturer at the TH Breslau from 1910 to 1920 and honorary professor at the TH Berlin -Charlottenburg from 1920 .

At Siemens he developed the industrial extraction of gold with potassium cyanide and electrochemical precipitation and later around 1900 the first industrial plants for the production of carbides , silicon and silicon-copper. He published and worked on methods for the preparation and cleaning of non-ferrous metals (lead, copper, antimony, zinc), chlor-alkali electrolysis, electrolysis of water, bleaching processes with electrolysis and ovens for electric steel.

In 1926 he was awarded honorary doctorates from TH Berlin and TH Vienna.

Fonts

• Publisher: Handbuch der Technischen Elektrochemie, 3 volumes, 1931–1935

literature

• Sigfrid von Weiher:  Engelhardt, Victor Josef Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 513 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989

Web links

• Literature by and about Victor Engelhardt in the catalog of the German National Library