Hans Kühne

Hans Kühne ( born June 3, 1880 in Magdeburg, † February 18, 1969 in Lindau) was a German chemist on the board of IG Colors and defendant at the Nuremberg Trials.

Life

After attending school in Magdeburg, he trained as a pharmacist and studied chemistry from 1903. After 1906 by graduation he was employed in Höhn rings first at the chemical factory Marienhütte Langelsheim, then at the Chemical Industry AG Gelsenkirchen- Schalke and finally at the chemical factory W. Field. During the First World War Bold 1915 was used on the western front as a soldier. Kuehne, married and father of four children, was employed in 1916 at Bayer Leverkusen. He was there involved in the development of the " Müller -Kühne process " for the production of sulfuric acid. He was in 1921 appointed Deputy Director at Bayer, head of the " Inorganic Division " and was there from 1923 deputy member.

When I.G. Colors he was in 1926 a full board member of the Working Committee and was a member of the Technical Committee as well as chemicals. From 1933 he headed the Bayer plant in Leverkusen until his retirement in 1945. 's Economic group chemistry in 1938, he took over the presidency of the Southeast Committee and was also a member of several boards of occupied companies in the occupied territories by Germany.

After the war, Kuehne was arrested in 1947 by the U.S. Army and charged at the Nuremberg Trials in the IG Farben Trial with 22 other accused. On July 30, 1948 Kuehne was acquitted with ten other defendants because of the evidence.

Kuehne, who found a job at Bayer Elberfeld after his release by Ulrich Haberland, died in mid-February 1969.