Wilhelm Steinkopf

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Georg Wilhelm Steinkopf (born June 28, 1879 in Staßfurt , † March 12, 1949 in Stuttgart ) was a German chemist .

Life

Georg Wilhelm Steinkopf was born on June 28, 1879 in Staßfurt as the son of Gustav Friedrich and Elise Steinkopf.

In 1898 he began studying chemistry and physics in Heidelberg, which he continued at the TH Karlsruhe in 1899 and graduated with a diploma in 1905. This was followed by a doctorate and habilitation at the TH Karlsruhe, where he made the acquaintance of the chemists Fritz Haber and Roland Scholl . During his studies in Heidelberg in 1898 he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . From 1909 to 1914 he held an extraordinary professorship at the TH, which was terminated by the First World War: He volunteered for military service.

In 1916 Fritz Haber, who had become director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical and Electrochemistry, called him back to Berlin. He was given the job of heading a department that researched the use of chemical warfare agents in war. Together with Wilhelm Lommel, he developed a process to synthesize large quantities of the warfare agent bis (2-chloroethyl) sulfide. This warfare agent was from then on under the name Lost known an abbreviation of Lo mmel / St single head. It was first used on July 12, 1917 in the Third Battle of Flanders .

In 1919 Steinkopf moved to the TH Dresden and took on an extraordinary professorship for organic chemistry. In 1924 he became a member of the Advisory Board of the Army Ordnance Office , which dealt with biological and chemical weapons. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1935 he became a full professor at the TH Dresden, but had to retire in 1940 because his health had been badly affected by handling the highly toxic substances since 1916. At the end of 1945, however, he was reactivated as an "emeritus and unencumbered" university professor for courses due to the war-related shortage of personnel.

He died in Stuttgart on March 12, 1949.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of members of the Frankonia fraternity in Heidelberg. 1956-1966. Heidelberg 1966, p. 23.
  2. ↑ Markus Schnedlitz: Chemical warfare agents: history, properties, effects. GRIN Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-640-23360-1 , p. 30.
  3. ↑ Reiner Pommerin : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 1: History 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 3-412-02303-5 , p. 205 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Reiner Pommerin : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 1: History 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 3-412-02303-5 , p. 224 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Steinkopf, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinkopf, Georg Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Staßfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1949
Place of death Stuttgart