Werner Wittstadt

Werner Georg Wittstadt (born July 12, 1907 in Mellrichstadt ; † June 25, 1956 in Dresden ) was a German physical chemist .

Life

Witt City studied after the Abitur 1925 at the Humanities College Kempten chemistry (graduate 1931) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Georg-August University of Goettingen . During his studies he joined the Danubia Munich fraternity .

In 1933 he was at Peter Adolf Thiessen at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Göttingen with a dissertation attempts to interpret the forced anisotropy of rubber to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. From 1933 to 1941 and again from 1943 to 1945 he was a scientific assistant in the X-ray department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrical Engineering in Berlin. In the meantime he was head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Bast fiber research in Sorau.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945 he was employed as a scientist, initially in the technical office of the People's Commissariat for Chemistry in Berlin and from autumn 1945 in Moscow . There he worked a. a. with Peter Adolf Thiessen, Hans Bartel and Ludwig Ziehl on the Soviet atomic bomb project . After returning from the Soviet Union, he was professor from 1954 to 1956, teaching colloid chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden .

literature

Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 1059.

Individual evidence

^ Old gentlemen's association of the Danubia fraternity in Munich (ed.): History of the Danubia fraternity . Volume 1, Munich 1978, p. 324.
^ Thomas Steinhauser, Jeremiah James, Dieter Hoffmann , Bretislav Friedrich: Hundred Years at the Interface of Chemistry and Physics. The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society between 1911 and 2011 . De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023914-0 , p. 123.

personal data
SURNAME	Wittstadt, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wittstadt, Werner Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 12, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mellrichstadt
DATE OF DEATH	June 25, 1956
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Old gentlemen's association of the Danubia fraternity in Munich (ed.): History of the Danubia fraternity . Volume 1, Munich 1978, p. 324.

[2] Thomas Steinhauser, Jeremiah James, Dieter Hoffmann , Bretislav Friedrich: Hundred Years at the Interface of Chemistry and Physics. The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society between 1911 and 2011 . De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023914-0 , p. 123.