Short biography and Publications by Hans Schmalfuß (1894-1955)

Short biography

1894	Born on 28. March 1894 in Hamburg
1914-1918	Military service
1921	PhD with Paul Rabe in Hamburg
1924	Habilitation in Hamburg
1924-1926	Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry at the State Chemical Institute in Hamburg
1925-1941	Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the State Chemical Institute in Hamburg
1928	Appointment as professor
1931-1941	Head of the examination office of the State Chemical Institute in Hamburg
1941-1945	Professor at the "Reich University of Poznan", which had a "scientific" mission in the sense of Nazi ideology; Chair and Director of the Institute for Agricultural Trade Research and Stock Maintenance
1946-1950	Research Institute for Agricultural Trade Maintenance in Giengen, "Professor im Wartestand
1950-1952	Institute for Applied Nutritional Science Hannover
1951	Founding member of the working group of nutritional science institutes
1952(?)-1955	Consultant/employee of Deutsche Vacuum Oel Aktiengesellschaft Hamburg
1955	died on 13.3.1955 in Hamburg

Alternative name spellings

• Hans Schmalfuß
• Hans Theodor Konstantin Max Schmalfuß
• Hans Schmalfuss
• Hans Schmalfusz

Further Information

• Entry in the Hamburg catalog of professors

Comment of the Institute of Organic Chemistry

Some publications of H. Schmalfuß are obviously to be seen in connection with the National Socialist racial discrimination. We distance ourselves emphatically from the contents of these publications, but have included them here for the sake of completeness. Unfortunately, this negative outgrowth also belongs to the history of chemistry in Hamburg.

Publications

(All known publications are listed here. However, only publications from the Hamburg period until 1941 are included in the complete list of chemistry).