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Victor Bayerl
editVictor Bayerl (8 April 1903 in Lodz (now Poland) - 11 May 1982 in Leipzig) was a German physical chemist.
editLife and work
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Bayerl grew up in Berlin and made 1923 Abitur at the local Mommsen-Gymnasium in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. He studied chemistry and graduated in 1929 with a diploma and obtained his doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) November 1930 in physical chemistry under Max Volmer at the [[Technical University Berlin|Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg]] ). He wrote his dissertation on the topic "droplet formation in supersaturated vapors". During this time, he was a research assistant to Max Volmer at the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg. After graduation, he moved into industry and came across a stopover at the Auergesellschaft in 1934 to Pintsch Bamag AG. There he was involved in influential positions in the planning, design and construction of plants for the preparation of petroleum products in the world. He was also involved in the large-scale implementation of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis.
After the war, he followed in 1945 at the invitation of Max Volmer, which had already been committed in the Soviet Union. In Moscow he was told that he should be involved in the development of Soviet nuclear bomb. After a short stopover in Agudseri near Sukhumi, the group was transferred to Moscow. In the group Volmer he was (along with Gustav Richter and Soviet colleagues) responsible for the planning and construction of a plant for industrial production of heavy water by fractional distillation of ammonia, enriched by H-D exchange with deuterium. The plant was built in Norilsk in Siberia. 1955 returned Bayerl to Germany and came across a stopover at the Institute of Organic chemical industry in Leipzig (Director: Eberhard Leibnitz) to the Construction and Engineering Chemistry firm (KIB Chemie) in Leipzig as its director in 1956 until his retirement in 1969 was. In 1966 he received an extraordinary professorship as a lecturer for the design of chemical plants at the Faculty of Engineering and Basic Sciences at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg. He retired in 1969 and died in 1982 in Leipzig.
Bayerl was the holder of several patents and author and co-editor of publications.
Books
editVictor Bayerl, Martin Quarg (eds.): Handbook of the chemical technologists. VEB German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1963, 721 pages. Victor Bayerl, Hans-Georg Strauss (eds.): The preliminary cost estimate for investments in the chemical industry. VEB German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1968, 291 pages.
Literature
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Ulrich Albrecht; Andreas Heinemann-Grüder; Arend Wellmann: Specialists, German scientists and engineers in the Soviet Union after 1945. Berlin. Dietz, 1992, ISBN 3-320-01788-8, p 69ff. Oleynikov, Pavel V .: German Scientists in the Soviet Atomic Project, The Nonproliferation Review Volume 7, Number 2, 1-30 (2000; PDF; 144 kB). Neubauer, Alfred: If even ruin, then imposing ruin. The Soviet atomic bomb project. Memories to Max Volmer and his associates Victor Bayerl and Gustav Richter; Spectrum. 21.1990, H.6, pp 30-31.