Wilhelm Traube
Wilhelm Traube ( born January 10, 1866 in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, † September 28, 1942 in Berlin) was a German chemist.
Life
The son of the Silesian scholar Moritz Traube graduated after short-term employment with the law his chemical studies in Heidelberg, Breslau, Munich and Berlin. His teachers included August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Adolf von Baeyer and Karl Friedrich Rammelsberg. In 1888 he received his doctorate with a thesis about the addition products of cyanic acid. From 1897 to grape was an assistant at the Institute of Pharmacology in Berlin, from 1902 assistant professor at the Institute of Pharmacy and Adjunct Professor.
In 1911 he became an associate and full professor in 1929. At the suggestion of Hermann Emil Fischer grape was working as a department head at the Institute of Chemistry ( Analytical Division ) at the University in Berlin. His inventiveness comes in many patents in the field of cellulose chemistry and metal complex salts expressed. He became internationally known by a process for caffeine synthesis. He developed and named after him Traub Ash synthesis of purine from cyanoacetic ester and urea has, inter alia, in the pharmaceutical industry gained importance. A reputation as a professor at the University of Kiel, he did not succeed. Traube was a board member of the German Chemical Society and in 1926 a member of the Leopoldina in Halle. Used for identification of barium in nuclear fission products, Otto Hahn, an organic barium salt, that came from grape.
Grape had a penchant for music and played the piano. The CV for Promotion grapes are Protestant as religion.
Wilhelm Traube was of Jewish descent and was a victim of Nazi racial mania. He was deprived of his teaching license in 1935 at the Berlin Friedrich- Wilhelms- University under the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. First, he suffered through the Nazi rulers discrimination and restrictions (eg signature, " Dr. Wilhelm Israel grape, identity card J Berlin A 370 523 "); his property was confiscated in favor of the Empire. In September 1942, the deportation of Traube was imminent and he wanted to take on the night of September 11 with cyanide life. Otto Hahn persuaded him not to do that and maintain. On September 11 morning grape was arrested by the Gestapo after breaking the door and died in prison from the effects of abuse and beating he suffered in the arrest because of resistance. Otto Hahn and Walter Julius Viktor Schoeller had tried on the same day to save his friend, Traube, formal, although with success, but they were late by a few hours.
Wilhelm Traube was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee, the tomb without memorial stone has been preserved.
His brother was Hermann Traube ( 1860-1913 ).
A stumbling block was on April 1, 2014, his former place of residence, Berlin- Charlottenburg, Sybelstraße 61, postponed.