Walther Awe

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Walther Awe (born August 9, 1900 in Anklam ; † March 15, 1968 in Braunschweig ) was a German pharmacist and university professor . He was director of the Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

Life

Awe studied chemistry at the University of Greifswald since 1918 . During his studies he was called up for military service, after which he switched to pharmacy. From 1919 to 1922 he worked as an intern at pharmacies in Anklam and Berga / Elster , then as a pre-examiner in Greiz . Since 1922 he studied pharmacy and chemistry at the University of Göttingen , where he passed his second chemical association examination in 1925 and then worked as an assistant. During his studies he became a member of the "student choir of Georgia Augusta" (today StMV Blaue Sänger Göttingen ). The pharmacist and chemist Awe was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . His academic teachers include Adolf Windaus , Gustav Tammann and especially Karl Feist . Awe worked in Göttingen until the pharmaceutical institute closed in 1938, where he was preparing for his habilitation. In October 1938 he became senior assistant under Kurt Bodendorf (1898–1976) at the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Breslau . Awe completed his habilitation in June 1939 at the University of Göttingen.

After the end of the Second World War , Awe went to Goslar , where he worked for a short time as an industrial chemist. In November 1945 he received a senior assistant position under Friedrich von Bruchhausen at the Institute for Pharmacy and Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He was appointed adjunct professor in 1948. In 1950 he became a full professor and director of the Institute for Applied Pharmacy, which was renamed the Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology in the same year. Awe's research included questions of alkaloid chemistry (berberine alkaloids, ingredients of poppy poppy) and pharmaceutical analysis. He was co-editor of the Archives of Pharmacy and the Textbook of Chemistry for Pharmacists, Food Chemists, Physicians and Biologists . Since 1959 he has chaired the Lower Saxony regional group of the German Pharmaceutical Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • As co-editor: Textbook of Chemistry for Pharmacists, Food Chemists, Physicians and Biologists. 1–6, 10th, complete reworked u. exp. Ed., Stuttgart, 1952-64, OCLC 720119540 .
  • For knowledge of the alkaloids of columbo root and berberine. (= Dissertation). Göttingen 1931, OCLC 43940419 .
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the constituents of the corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) and some alkaloids of the isoquinoline group. (= Habilitation thesis). Nischkowsky, Breslau 1939, OCLC 250204246 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 19.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Schneider : Festive meeting of the Lower Saxony group (German Pharmaceutical Society) for Walther Awe . In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung 1966, 110 (13), 447.
personal data
SURNAME Awe, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Anklam
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1968
Place of death Braunschweig