Bonhoeffer, Karl

Bonhoeffer, Farkas, Predissociation] Bonhoeffer, Karl Friedrich/Ladislaus Farkas Zur Deutung der diffusen Molekulspektren, Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie 134 (1927), p. 337-344. 

Bonhoeffer, Harteck, Wasserstoff] Bonhoeffer, Karl Friedrich/Paul Harteck Experi-mente uber Para- und Orthowasserstoff, Sitzungsberichte der PreuBischen Aka-demie der Wissenschaften, physikal.-mathem. Kl. (1929), p. 103-108. 

Max-Planck-Institut fur Biophysikalische Chemie (Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut), Abt. Molekularer Systemaufbau, Am FaSberg, D-3400 Gottingen, Federal Republic of Germany... 

Karl Bonhoeffer, professor of psychiatry at the University of Berlin, heads a team of German psychiatrists who, with a group of military men, plan to overthrow Hitler by arresting him, declaring him insane, and confining him in a mental institution. The psychiatric putsch is not carried out.i ... 

In the fall of 1928, I came to Berlin to start my Ph.D. thesis under Dr. Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry. I was accepted as a doctoral student at the recommendation of my brother Ladislas who was then private assistant to Fritz Haber, the director of the Institute and a coworker of Dr. Bonhoeffer. 

According to Haber, however, the new laboratory was essentially full upon completion. In 1927, Karl Bonhoeffer, Hartmut Kallmann and Hans Zocher all received... 

Fig. 2.14. Left to Right Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Ladislaus Farkas (seated), Paul Harteck, Hans...

Fig. 2.20. The Institute s hydrogen team, circa 1930. Left to right Ladislaus Farkas, Paul Fiarteck, Adalbert Farkas, Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer.

Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer and Arnold Eucken, met similar resistance. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Defense wanted application-oriented, military research to continue at the Institute until an appropriate military institute could be established. Hence, as far as the two Ministries were concerned, Thiessen was a far more suitable Director than the lauded scientists proposed by the KWG. While this debate unfolded between the ministries and the KWG, Thiessen was promoted to an academic post adequate for a KWG director. After he had failed to find a position in Freiburg or Frankfurt, Thiessen was offered the post of Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Chemistry Institute at Munster in March of 1935, succeeding Rudolf Schenck. Though his appointment was confirmed by the Ministry of Education on 1 April 1935, Thiessen never occupied the post. On 20 May 1935 the Ministry of Education named Thiessen Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, as well as Professor for Physical Chemistry at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. In the minutes of the Institute s board meeting a month later, Planck noted that the naming of the new Institute Director had come about in an unusual manner nevertheless, he accepted the political imposition and expressed his desire to work together with Thiessen. 

Fig. 4.5. Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer at the unveiling of the Fiaber commemorative plaque on 9 December 1952.

Gerischer, Heinz Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Mitteilungen der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, (1957), p. 114-122. 

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