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Franz Oppenheim (born 13 July 1852 in
Franz Oppenheim (born 13 July 1852 in Charlottenburg
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; died 13 February 1929 in Cairo
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) was a German chemist
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and industrialist
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who mainly worked for the Agfa company (now Agfa-Gevaert
Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Agfa) is a Belgian-German multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products, software, and systems.
The company began as a dye manufacturer in 1867. In 1925, the comp ...
). His father was German jurist and his mother was Margarethe Mendelssohn (1823–1890). His sisters were Else (1844–1868) and Enole Oppenheim (1855–1939). He lived with his family in Berlin-Wannsee
Wannsee () is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger '' Großer Wannsee'' (Greater Wannsee) and the '' Kleiner Wannse ...
.
Life
Oppenheim went to school atFriedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium
The Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium (or Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium) was a secondary school ( ''Gymnasium'') in Berlin.
History
The school originated from a Realschule founded by the Pietist Johann Julius Hecker in 1747, the first secondary schoo ...
in Berlin. He studied chemistry in Heildelberg and since 1874 in Bonn
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. Oppenheim married Else Wollheim (1858–1904), with her he had four children: Rose, Martha, Franz Caesar and Kurt Oppenheim. After the death of his first spouse he married '' Margarete Eisner'' in 1907.
In Cologne Oppenheim worked first for company Vorster & Grüneberg. Oppenheim worked since 1928 for German company Agfa
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in Berlin.
Oppenheim was also an art collector.
Literature
*Fritz Haber
Fritz Jakob Haber (; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrog ...
: ''Franz Oppenheim in memory of the anniversary of his death ''(13 February 1929). At the same time a contribution to the history of the Aktien-Gesellschaft für Anilinfabrikation . In: Journal for applied chemistry . 43, 1930, pp. 141–145, doi: 10.1002 / anie.19300430702 .
* Jens Ulrich Heine: A 28 - ''Franz Oppenheim'' . In: Mind and Fate. The men of I. G. Farbenindustrie AG in 161 short biographies . Weinheim u. a. 1990, pp. 226–228
* Bernd Wöbke: Oppenheim, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, , p. 563 f. ( Digitized version ).
See also
* Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy *Aryanization
Aryanization () was the Nazi term for the seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews, and the forced expulsion of Jews from economic life in Nazi Germany, Axis powers, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories. It enta ...
* History of the Jews in Germany
The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (c. 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish commu ...
References
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