Edmund Speyer

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Jakob Edmund Speyer (11 November 1878 – 5 May 1942) was a high-ranking German

National Socialist
era, losing his profession and his livelihood. He was deported to the Lodz ghetto, where he died in 1942.

Life

Speyer was born in

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Here he was awarded a doctorate by Emil Knoevenagel in July 1901 with a thesis Zur Kenntnis der Additionsfähigkeit ungesättigter Verbindungen.[1]

Speyer then went back to Frankfurt, where he first worked as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt. In 1915 he received his

Eukodal
as a painkiller and cough suppressant. Numerous patents and publications bear witness to the successful collaboration between Freund and Speyer between 1902 and 1920. He wrote the obituary for Martin Freund.[3]

He then worked as an

Machtergreifung, his teaching licence was revoked because of his Jewish faith.[4][5]

During the Second World War, Speyer was deported to the Łódź Ghetto. Situated 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Łódź in the village of Chełmno, the Chełmno extermination camp began gassing operations on 8 December 1941. On 4 May 1942, the first transport with 1,000 of the "resettled" from Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Prague, Paris, etc., who had previously had their rucksacks, bread bags and wedding rings taken from them in the police prison, left from the Radegast train station just outside the ghetto: This news had a depressing effect throughout the ghetto.[6] Speyer died in Łódź from "heart failure" and "exhaustion" on 5 May 1942.[7][8]

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Goethe University, a Stolperstein was laid for him at Unterweg 22 on 17 October 2014.

Selected publications

  • Speyer, Edmund; Wieters, Hermann (1921). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Kodeinoxyd‐sulfonsäuren und ihrer Derivate". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft (A and B Series) (in German). 54 (11): 2976–2987.
    doi:10.1002/cber.19210541106
    .
  • Speyer, Edmund; Becker, Alfred Gustav (1922). "Über die Einwirkung von Wasserstoffsuperoxyd auf China‐Alkaloide". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft (A and B Series) (in German). 55 (5): 1321–1329.
    doi:10.1002/cber.19220550523
    .
  • Speyer, Edmund; Becker, Günther (1922). "Zur Kenntnis des Morphins". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft (A and B Series) (in German). 55 (5): 1329–1339.
    doi:10.1002/cber.19220550524
    .
  • Speyer, Edmund; Koulen, Karl (1931). "Über die Einwirkung von Ozon auf des ‐ N ‐Methyl‐dihydro‐kodein (I. Mitteil.)". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft (A and B Series) (in German). 64 (11): 2815–2819.
    doi:10.1002/cber.19310641110
    .

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References

  1. doi:10.1002/cber.19020350165
  2. doi:10.1002/prac.19160940112
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  3. doi:10.1002/cber.19210540533
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  4. ^ J. Friedman: The Lion and the Star. University Press of Kentucky, 1998, ISBN 0-813-12043-8, p. 238. Edmund Speyer, p. 238, at Google Books
  5. ^ W. Killy: Dictionary of German Biography. Vol. 9 (Schmidt - Theyer), Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-110-96629-8, p. 409. Edmund Speyer, p. 409, at Google Books
  6. ^ S. Feuchert, E. Leibfried, J. Riecke: Chronicle of the Lodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Wallstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-892-44834-5, p. 146; p. 650f.
  7. ^ L. Dobroszycki: The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944. Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-300-03924-7, p. 176. Edmund Speyer, p. 176, at Google Books
  8. ^ S. Feuchert, E. Leibfried, J. Riecke: Chronicle of the Lodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto Wallstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-892-44834-5, p. 201; p. 670. Edmund Speyer, p. 201, at Google Books
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