Wolfgang Schirmer

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Wolfgang Schirmer (right) handing over office as Director of ZIPC to Gerhard Öhlmann (1986)

Wolfgang Schirmer (born March 3, 1920 in Berlin , † April 16, 2005 in Woltersdorf (near Berlin) ) was a German chemist and works director of the Leunawerke . His main scientific field of work was physical chemistry . He was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

Wolfgang Schirmer, son of a commercial employee, attended elementary school and grammar school. After graduating from high school , from 1939 he studied chemistry , physics and general natural sciences at the then Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and at the Technical University of Berlin . He then worked as an employee of the C. Lorenz company in Berlin and was temporarily in the Wehrmacht .

After the end of World War II, he was a researcher at the Technical University of Berlin, where he in 1948 with a dissertation on the chemical reaction kinetics doctorate was.

From 1950 to 1953 he was plant director of the Piesteritz nitrogen plant . From 1953 he was then director of the Leuna-Werke "Walter Ulbricht" and initially managed it together with the Soviet director DF Semennikow until it was transferred to public ownership in 1954. On December 28, 1962 he was retired as plant director, and Siegbert Löschau was his successor .

Since 1954 he has been a lecturer and since 1955 professor at the Technical University of Chemistry in Leuna-Merseburg. The Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB) has left him in 1954 with a habilitation for kinetics of nitrification of calcium carbide to Kalkstickstoff habilitation .

Schirmer became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1952 and took part in the Second Party Conference of the SED in July 1952. From 1954 to 1967 he was a candidate on the Central Committee of the SED . Wolfgang Schirmer was a corresponding member from 1959 and from 1961 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences (DAW). In 1962 he was appointed deputy director of the later Central Institute for Physical Chemistry at the DAW. From 1964 to the end of 1985 he was the successor to Peter Adolf Thiessen as the director of this institute, his successor at the beginning of 1986 Gerhard Öhlmann .

From February 1963 he was also a professor with a chair for chemical technology at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB). His main field of work in physical chemistry was adsorption, especially on molecular sieves .

From January 1, 1963, he was deputy chairman of the Research Council of the GDR and from June 1963 chairman of the “Standing Commission for the Chemical Industry” at the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon).

He retired in 1985. Schirmer was a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 296.
  • Jan Wielgohs:  Schirmer, Wolfgang . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Gerhard Öhlmann , Martin Bülow: Obituary for Wolfgang Schirmer , In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 80, year 2005, pp. 131-136. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The mixed German-Soviet commission met in the Leuna works . In: Neue Zeit , December 17, 1953, p. 1.
  2. ↑ New director in Leuna . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 31, 1962, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Discussion speeches at the Second Party Conference of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . In: Neues Deutschland , July 17, 1952, p. 3f.
  4. ↑ New plant director in Leuna . In: Neues Deutschland, December 29, 1962, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Standing Commission for the Chemical Industry in Comecon met in Berlin . In: Neues Deutschland, June 16, 1963, p. 6.
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland, November 12, 1960, p. 2.
  7. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 2, 1980, p. 5.
  8. ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 2, 1985, p. 4.

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personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2005
Place of death Woltersdorf (near Berlin)