Wilhelm Feit

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Wilhelm Friedrich August Feit (born January 24, 1867 in Lippstadt , † June 19, 1956 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German chemist .

Life

Born as the son of the wheelwright Friedrich Feit from Lippstadt, he attended elementary school and secondary school 1st order in his hometown until he passed his Abitur at Easter 1884. Feit then worked "for a year at the Lippstädter Eisenwerke" before he began studying chemistry and metallurgy at the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1887 the Aschersleben potash works hired him as a chemist.

The time there was interrupted by military service and the subsequent acquisition of the doctoral degree . He then stayed in Aschersleben until 1894, before he worked for the “Hercynia” union in Langelsheim and then took over the management of the union's own company in Vienenburg .

In 1908 Wilhelm Feit succeeded Georg Borsche (1844-1926) as General Director of the United Chemical Factories in Leopoldshall (abbreviated: VCF - for United Chemical Factories) in the community and later city of Leopoldshall / Anhalt - today a district of Staßfurt. In 1922, the VCF to Leopoldshall became "Werk Leopoldshall" in the Kaliwerke Aschersleben AG and Feit was appointed to its supervisory board.

After his retirement, he continued to be a member of the supervisory board of Vereinigte Kaliwerke Salzdetfurth AG. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Wilhelm Feit was also always a chemist. His work on the potash salts and their processing had a lasting effect.

In 1919 he founded the Kaliforschungsanstalt in Berlin and his favorite area was the " rare earths ". In his z. He had successfully presented the pure form of rare earth elements to private laboratories in Leopoldshall and Berlin-Zehlendorf , and it was thanks to him that larger amounts of the rarely available rhenium could be made available for research from the Aschersleben deposits .

He received numerous honors: the Technical University of Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate, the Prussian Academy of Sciences awarded him the silver Leibniz Medal in 1932 and the Association of German Chemists awarded him the Liebig Medal and made him an honorary member. The city of Leopoldshall (today part of Staßfurt) appointed Dr. Feit to her honorary citizen on February 27, 1922. The city of Aschersleben , where he was buried, also made him an honorary citizen .

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SURNAME Feit, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feit, Wilhelm Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1956
Place of death Bad Nauheim