Heribert Offermanns

Heribert Offermanns ( born October 24, 1937 in Merkstein near Aachen ) has become known as a chemist and manager at Degussa AG in the second half of the 20th century.

Life and work

At the Rheinisch- Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen ), he studied chemistry. His master 's and doctoral work he produced in the group of Friedrich Asinger on the border between the organic and technical chemistry. Then Offermanns was in industrial chemical and pharmaceutical research at Degussa AG and Degussa Antwerpen NV and Degussa Inc. New York. Since 1976, Offermanns was the responsibility of Research and Development Member of the Board of Degussa AG. Offermanns remained until 2000 board member and decisively influenced the development and expansion of Degussa's research center in Hanau -Wolfgang by his personality.

Heribert Offermanns has the Board of the German Chemical Society, the Senate of the German Research Foundation ( DFG), as a member of the University Council of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, as a trustee of the University of Regensburg and the Paul Ehrlich Foundation and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Max - Planck Institute for solid State Research, Stuttgart, and in politics worked volunteer for decades. He is since 1988 honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Heribert Offermanns has published numerous scientific papers on sulfur chemistry and the manufacture and use of hydrogen peroxide and has emerged as an inventor with numerous patents.

Offermanns is married and the father of two grown daughters.

Awards

  • Heribert Offermanns was awarded an honorary doctorate of engineering at the RWTH Aachen
  • 1988: Carl- Duisberg Medal of the German Chemical Society
  • 2001: Karl- Winnacker Prize of the Federal University of Marburg
  • 2011: Cross of Merit 1st class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications (selection)

  • H. Offermanns: Azalogie principle: there and back, news from chemistry 59, 2011, 1152-1153.
  • H. Offermanns: The other Ostwald, news from chemistry 57, 2009, 1201-1202.
  • W. Keim, H. Offermanns: Friedrich Asinger (1907-1999): A mediator in between basic and Applied Research, in: Angew. Chem Int. Ed. Engl 2007, 46, 6010-6013.
  • H. Offermanns: A plea for basic research - Utility is just a second-order moment, in: Chemistry in our time, 2002, 36, 306-309.
  • H. Offermanns: Hydrogen peroxide - use in environmental protection and synthesis, in: Chemistry in our time, 2000, 34, 150-159.
  • J. Martens, H. Offermanns, P. Scherberich: Synthesis of racemic cysteine ​​, in: Angew. Chem Int. Ed. Engl 1981, 20, 668-668.
  • WM Weigert, H. Offermanns, P. Scherberich: D- penicillamine - Production and Properties, in: Angew. Chem Int. Ed. Engl 1975, 14, 330-336.
  • H. Offermanns, F. Asinger: Synthesis with ketones, sulfur and ammonia or amines and chemical behavior of the reaction products, West German publishing house, Cologne and Opladen, 1966.
  • Always one step ahead, edited by Degussa AG, Frankfurt am Main, 1998, Pages 304-338 Papers from there Heribert Offermanns "Successful Connections - collaboration with scientists at home and abroad " and " Dynamic processes - Invention and Innovation", ISBN 3-00-002389-5.
  • F. Asinger, H. Offermanns, D. and P. Miiller Neuray Synthesis of Thiomorpholine and 2- monoalkylated thiomorpholines via 5,6-dihydro- l ,4- thiazine, Monatshefte fur Chemie, 1970, 101, 1295-1308.
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