Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
German chemist (1899-1957)
Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer (13 January 1899 – 15 May 1957) was a German chemist.
Biography
Family, education and early career
Born in Breslau, he was an older brother of martyred theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His father was neurologist Karl Bonhoeffer and his mother was Paula von Hase.
Bonhoeffer studied from 1918 in Tübingen and Berlin, finishing his PhD in 1922 in Berlin with Walther Nernst. From 1923 to 1930 he was an assistant with Fritz Haber at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Elektrochemistry in Berlin Dahlem. After the Habilitation in 1927, he became full professor at the University of Berlin. In 1930, Bonhoeffer was appointed a professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt. Four years later, he was appointed a professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig.
In 1935, he was refused permission by the Reich Minister of Education Bernhard Rust to attend a Kaiser Wilhelm Society memorial for Fritz Haber, the "father of chemical warfare", who had died in exile after refusing to expel Jewish scientists from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry. This was the only organised public protest by scientists in Nazi Germany.
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