Walter Hieber

Walter Hieber Otto (born 18 December 1895 in Stuttgart, † November 29, 1976 in Munich) was a German chemist.

Life and work

Hieber was born as the son of the pastor, members of parliament and later Minister of Culture and State President John Hieber Württemberg. After receiving his doctorate in 1924 with Rudolf Weinland ( 1865-1936 ) in Tübingen ( Tübingen Hieber was like his father, a member of the connection Normannia ) he followed his teacher to Würzburg. After his habilitation he became a lecturer in Heidelberg and in 1935 Director of the Inorganic Chemical Institute of the Technical University of Munich. At today's Technical University of Munich auditorium is named in the Faculty of Chemistry at him.

Hieber is the founder of metal carbonyl chemistry. He discovered the so-called Metallcarbonylhydride as H2Fe (CO) 4 or HMn (CO) 5, recognized the base reaction of metal carbonyls and made the decisive contribution to the synthesis of many metal carbonyl compounds such as Re2 (CO ) 10

In 1951, he received the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize of the German Chemical Society. Ten of his students later became Chair, including the Nobel laureate Ernst Otto Fischer.

• About complexes of trivalent iron with hypophosphorous acid, Dissertation, Tübingen 1919
• For the knowledge of the chemical reactions of iron carbonyl, Habil font, Würzburg 1929