Willibald Diemair

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Willibald Diemair (born October 4, 1899 in Munich ; † July 1, 1991 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German chemist and university professor .

Life

Willibald Diemair, son of Willibald Diemair senior and Anna née Rieth, devoted himself to studying chemistry at the Royal Bavarian Technical University of Munich , after graduating from high school in 1917 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , which he completed in 1925 with the academic degree of one Dr.-Ing. completed. Then he turned to the study of food chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to where his 1929 promotion to Dr. phil. took place.

Willibald Diemair subsequently held the positions of head of the laboratory and deputy head of the German Research Institute for Food Chemistry at the University of Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1936 as a private lecturer . In the following year he moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as a private lecturer in food chemistry , where he was promoted to full professor and director of the Institute for Food Chemistry, which was also the municipal food investigation office of the city of Frankfurt am Main, in 1942. He moved to Frankfurt University as the successor to Josef Tillmans .

Diemair, who joined the NSDAP in 1940 , took part in the mycelium conference on January 27, 1944 at the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production . The background was the examination of whether this cellulose waste product should be used by the " SS Economic and Administrative Main Office as substitute food for concentration camp inmates".

In 1969 he retired in Frankfurt am Main. In 1958 he was appointed to the Federal Health Council.

In 1951, Willibald Diemair was awarded the Joseph Koenig commemorative coin in recognition of his special services in his field . On the occasion of his 65th birthday in 1964, he was awarded the plaque of honor by the city of Frankfurt am Main .

Willibald Diemair, who privately collected ancient religious sculptures and pictures, married Emilie, née Noack, in 1929. He died in 1991 at the age of 92 in Frankfurt am Main.

Publications

  • Contribution to the knowledge of the vegetable phosphatides with special consideration of the phosphatide of the carrot, J. Springer, Berlin, 1931.
  • The preservation of food, Enke, Stuttgart, 1941.
  • Investigations on the fluorescence phenomena of paraffin oil: which is used for paraffinizing dried grapes, in: Volume 33 of series of publications of the Federal Food Law and Food Science, Behr, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, 1960.
  • The behavior of the sulphurous acid in vinegar during production and during storage: Work report, in: Volume 46 of the series of publications of the Federal Food Law and Food Science eV, Behr, Hamburg, 1963.
  • Sulphurous acid and its function in the processing of potato products, in: Volume 43 of the series of publications by the Federation for Food Law and Food Science, Federation for Food Law and Food Science, Behr, Hamburg, 1963.
  • With Wilhelm Postel: Detection and determination of preservatives in food , Wissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1967.
  • With Hermann Eyer , Konrad Lang : Significance of the saccharase occurring in honey: Expert opinion, Behr, Hamburg, 1968.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1916/17.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 109.
personal data
SURNAME Diemair, Willibald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1991
Place of death Frankfurt am Main