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Fig. 4.18
Portrait of Kurt
Schwabe (1905-1983).
Photo
University Archive
TU Dresden, Photograph
Collection, with permission
(National Socialist University Teachers' League) and had to leave university. In
1934, he accepted the position as senior chemist in the paper mill of Kübler and
Niethammer in Kriebstein, Saxony [
107
]. In 1939, he became Supernumerary
Professor at the TH Dresden. At the same time, he was appointed state advisor for
pulp and paper industry. In 1945, he founded the
Forschungsinstitut für chemische
Technologie
(Research Institute for Chemical Technology) in Meinsberg [
108
].
Schwabe was appointed Full Professor for Electrochemistry and Physical
Chemistry (for portrait see Fig.
4.18
). He headed this institute until his retirement
in 1970. Between 1959 and 1969, in addition Schwabe was head of the Institute
for Radiochemistry at the
Kernforschungszentrum Rossendorf
(Central Institute
for Nuclear Research, now
Helmholtz
-
Zentrum Dresden
-
Rossendorf
[
109
]). After
the transformation of the Technische Hochschule (TH) Dresden to the Technische
Universität (TU) Dresden in 1961, Schwabe became the first Rector (1961-1965).
In 1965, he founded the
Zentralstelle für Korrosionsschutz Dresden
(Central
Institute for Corrosion Inhibition) and headed this institute until 1971 [
110
].
Schwabe pioneered electrochemical sensing. His broad interests in electro-
chemistry include corrosion and corrosion inhibition, theory of electrolytes, elec-
troanalytical chemistry, in particular in pH measurement [
111
] and polarography
[
112
]. Already in the 1960s, he investigated the potential of fuel cells [
113
].
After retirement, Schwabe continued his work at the Meinsberg research insti-
tute, at that time an official research laboratory of the TU Dresden. The institute
became an independent body in 1980 and is nowadays called
Kurt
-
Schwabe
-
Institut für Mess
-
und Sensortechnik Meinsberg
[
108
].
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