Wilhelm Jander

Wilhelm Jander a year before graduating from high school in 1915

Wilhelm Jander (born July 2, 1898 in Altdöbern , † July 2, 1942 in Strasbourg ) was a German chemist ( inorganic chemistry ) and university professor.

Jander attended high school in Rinteln from 1909 , which he left with a secondary school diploma in 1915. He was then assigned to the 79th Infantry Regiment (Hildesheim) as a flag junior , wounded with a bullet through the upper arm in the Third Battle of Flanders in 1917 and taken prisoner by the British. In October 1918 he was transferred to the German Reich as an exchange prisoner.

After the war, he studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen from 1919 and received his doctorate in physical chemistry under Gustav Tammann in 1922 with a thesis "On the behavior of two metals dissolved in mercury to one another" .

During his academic work he was a leader in the emerging German national movement. As a member of a voluntary corps , he participated in the suppression of the Third Uprising in Upper Silesia in 1921 , and in 1922 he joined the NSDAP, which awarded him the Golden Party Badge under membership number 2866 . and took over the management of the Göttingen SA in 1922. His brother Gerhart took part in the 1923 Hitler putsch in Munich as a member of the NSDAP. Both brothers were richly decorated for this.

After working as an assistant for Otto Ruffs in Breslau in 1923 , he asked Tammann for a habilitation position on his return to Göttingen in 1924. By promoting Otto Dimroths (Organic Chemistry) he could at the University of Würzburg 1927 Habilitation and remained there as a lecturer in inorganic chemistry to the 1932nd

Of the 145 Würzburg university professors, Jander was one of two who signed the Nazi Party’s Reichstag election campaign in 1933; the other was Herwart Fischer , the forensic and social medicine specialist .

In 1933 he was appointed full professor for inorganic chemistry at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Together with his brother Gerhart Jander, he dealt with the use of ultrafilters in analytics, while his main area of research was solid-state chemistry. In addition, he investigated the influence of gases on solid-state reactions and demonstrated the influence of lattice disturbances on solid-state reactions with X-ray methods and dealt with silicate chemistry.

At the University of Frankfurt am Main, Jander was a Nazi lecturer association leader from 1936–1938 . In 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, he volunteered for the Wehrmacht as a captain and worked there for counter-espionage. In 1941/42 he was released in order to set up an institute for inorganic chemistry at the University of Strasbourg .

Wilhelm Jander died on July 2, 1942 of bacterial blood poisoning, caused by chewing blades of grass in connection with an inflamed tooth.

literature

Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989.

Fonts

Textbook for the inorganic-chemical internship (with the exception of the quantitative analysis). By Wilhelm Jander, full professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Frankfurt a. M. XII, 415 p. With 39 illustrations. Verlag von S. Hirzel, Leipzig ( doi : 10.1002 / ardp.19392770613 ) 1939 (1st edition)… 3rd edition 1942… 5th edition 1944

Individual evidence

↑ His name appeared in a Göttingen reserve hospital list in June 1919.
↑ G. Tammann and W. Jander: Metallographic messages from the physical-chemical institute of the University of Göttingen. CVII. "About the behavior of two metals dissolved in mercury to one another" . In: Z. Anorg. General Chem. 124 , pp. 105-122 (1922) doi : 10.1002 / zaac.19221240112 .
↑ ^a ^b Robert Fricke: Obituary to Wilhelm Jander July 2, 1898 to July 2, 1942 In: Ber. German Chem. Ges. 77 , A15-A20 (1944). doi : 10.1002 / cber.19440770214
↑ H. Kahlert: The power-through-joy chemist Wilhelm Jander . In: Nachr. Aus der Chemie 63 , 1176–1179 (2015). doi : 10.1002 / nadc.201590403
↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 158 f.
↑ H. Kahlert: The power-through-joy chemist Wilhelm Jander . In: Nachr. Aus der Chemie 63 , 1176–1179 (2015). doi : 10.1002 / nadc.201590403 , quotation point 15.

personal data
SURNAME	Jander, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altdöbern
DATE OF DEATH	July 2, 1942
Place of death	Strasbourg

[1] His name appeared in a Göttingen reserve hospital list in June 1919.

[2] G. Tammann and W. Jander: Metallographic messages from the physical-chemical institute of the University of Göttingen. CVII. "About the behavior of two metals dissolved in mercury to one another" . In: Z. Anorg. General Chem. 124 , pp. 105-122 (1922) doi : 10.1002 / zaac.19221240112 .

[Fricke-3] Robert Fricke: Obituary to Wilhelm Jander July 2, 1898 to July 2, 1942 In: Ber. German Chem. Ges. 77 , A15-A20 (1944). doi : 10.1002 / cber.19440770214

[4] H. Kahlert: The power-through-joy chemist Wilhelm Jander . In: Nachr. Aus der Chemie 63 , 1176–1179 (2015). doi : 10.1002 / nadc.201590403

[5] Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 158 f.

[6] H. Kahlert: The power-through-joy chemist Wilhelm Jander . In: Nachr. Aus der Chemie 63 , 1176–1179 (2015). doi : 10.1002 / nadc.201590403 , quotation point 15.