Walter Theilacker
Walter Theilacker (born February 25, 1903 in Schnaitheim ; † September 11, 1968 ) was a German chemist and, as Professor of Organic Chemistry, Rector of the Technical University of Hanover from 1957 to 1958 .
Life
Walter Theilacker was an assistant at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate there in 1927. During his studies he became a member of the AMV Stochdorphia Tübingen . In 1934 he became a private lecturer in chemistry in Tübingen, an adjunct professor in 1940 and an associate professor in 1944. Between 1948 and 1968 he held the chair for organic chemistry and director of the institute of the same name at the TH Hannover. From 1957 to 1958 he led the university as rector. His research during this time was studies on atropisomerism . He described important basics of dynamic stereochemistry . In 1968 Theilacker received a call to the University of Cologne to succeed the late Nobel Prize winner Kurt Alder . Before he could accept this call, however, he died on September 11, 1968.
Fonts (selection)
- On the configuration of the Kamferquinone Oximes , dissertation University of Tübingen, 1929
- with Jakob Meisenheimer : Stereochemistry of nitrogen , 1933
- On the use of starch solution in iodometry , in: Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Volume 132, Number 5 / September 1951, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 356, ISSN 0937-0633
literature
- TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1956, Hanover: TH Hanover 1956, p. 35.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Theilacker in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 123.
- ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Walter Theilacker , accessed on March 17, 2010
Directors: Karl Karmarsch (1831–1875) | Wilhelm Launhardt (1875–1880)
Rectors: Wilhelm Launhardt (1880–1886) | Karl Dolezalek (1886-1892) | Wilhelm Kohlrausch (1892–1895) | Albert Frank (1895–1898) | Heinrich Köhler (1898–1901) | Ludwig Kiepert (1901–1904) | Georg Barkhausen (1904–1907) | Hermann Ost (1907–1910) | Franz Frese (1910–1911) | Karl Mohrmann (1911–1913) | Robert Otzen (1913–1915) | Carl Heim (1915–1917) | Ludwig Troske (1917–1919) | Conrad Müller (1919–1923) | Ernst Vetterlein (1923–1925) | Fritz Oesterlen (1925–1927) | Friedrich Quincke (1927–1929) | Otto Blum (1929–1931) | Ludwig Klein (1931–1933) | Otto Franzius (1933–1934) | Horst von Sanden (1934–1937) | Hanns Simons (1937–1939) | Alexander Matting (1940-1943) | Helmut Pfannmüller (1943–1945) | Conrad Müller (1945–1947) | Otto Flachsbart (1947–1950) | Walter Großmann (1950–1951) | Hermann Deckert (1951–1952) | Walter Hensen (1952–1954) | Hans Schönfeld (1954–1956) | Johannes Schlums (1956–1957) | Walter Theilacker (1957–1958) | Wilhelm Nicolaisen (1958–1959) | Egon Martyrer (1959–1960) | Wilhelm Wortmann (1960–1961) | Hans-Oskar Wilde (1961–1963) | Albert Vierling (1963–1964) | Walter Renard (1964–1966) | Theodor Kaluza (1966–1968) | Alf Pflüger (1968–1969) | Eduard Pestel (1969–1970) | Hermann Böhrs (1970–1971) | Jürgen Wehrmann (1971–1972) | Lothar Hübl (1973–1974) | Gerhart Laage (1974–1975) | Hinrich Seidel (1975–1977) | Otwin Massing (1977–1978) | Klaus Schäfer (1978–1979)
President: Hinrich Seidel (1979–1997) | Ludwig Schätzl (1997–2005) | Erich Barke (2005–2014) | Volker Epping (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Theilacker, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist; Rector of Leibniz University Hannover (1957–1958) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schnaitheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1968 |