Werner Hanke (chemist)

Werner Hanke (born April 14, 1932 in Waldenburg , Silesia ) is a German chemist.

Hanke was the son of a doctor of law and often had to change his place of residence due to the war. In 1951 he completed his Abitur at the Goethe School in Schwerin, but was initially unable to study chemistry as a son of middle-class parents, although he had already experimented a lot in his private laboratory as a student. Günther Rienäcker was so impressed by him that he hired him in Rostock as an assistant laboratory assistant with the lecturer Brigitte Sarry . Soon he became a lecture assistant and admitted to university. He went to Halle with Sarry and received his diploma there in 1957. In 1960 he received his doctorate in Halle under H. Funk (he began his doctoral thesis under Sarry, but it went to the West in 1958). Because of his political opposition, however, he saw no future for himself in Halle. He completed his habilitation in 1969 in Berlin at Rienäcker on a topic of his own choosing (catalytic properties of metal- phthalocyanine complexes).

From 1968 he was on the editorial staff of the journal for inorganic and general chemistry (chief editor Rienäcker). In 1972 he became editorial secretary and in 1990 he was co-editor with Gerhard Fritz and Rudolf Hoppe , which he remained until 2008.

In 2008 a celebratory colloquium was held in his honor at the Free University of Berlin .

In 1959 he married Christine Kuttner in Halle, with whom he has a daughter.

literature

• Kurt Dehnicke, Martin Jansen, Thomas Klapötke: Dr. habil. Werner Hanke - 40 Years of Designing and Preserving an All-German Journal, Journal for Inorganic and General Chemistry, Volume 634, 2008, pp. 2681–2683