Franz Joseph Emil Fischer

Franz Joseph Emil Fischer ( born March 19, 1877 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † December 1, 1947 in Munich) was a German chemist. With Hans Tropsch in 1925, he developed the Fischer- Tropsch synthesis for the artificial production of fuels.

Life and work

After studying among other things in Freiburg, Munich and Giessen, where he received his doctorate in 1901 under Charles Elbs, followed in 1904 Habilitation and then a research assistant with Emil Fischer at the Humboldt University. In Berlin, Fischer 1911 was appointed as a professor at the Technical University. In 1913 he became a founding director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr. After Fischer had joined the NSDAP in 1933, he remained until his retirement in 1943 at the office. His successor was the future Nobel Prize winner Karl Ziegler.

Fischer also counted in 1919, together with the mayor of Essen, Hans Luther, the civil engineer and technical writer Henry Reisner and the banker Wilhelm von Waldthausen the founders of the still existing " Society for Science and Life in the Rhenish- Westphalian industrial area " as new " holding company for the scientific, cultural and economic aspirations. " On whose initiative was created in 1927, the Haus der Technik in Essen. In 1932 Fischer was elected to the Academy Scholars Leopoldina.

1959, a street was named after Franz Fischer in Mülheim an der Ruhr.