Heribert Offermanns

Heribert Offermanns (born October 24, 1937) is a German chemist and former member of the board of the Degussa AG.

Life and work

Offermanns was born in

and at Degussa Antwerpen NV and Degussa Inc., New York. In 1976 Offermanns was appointed as member of the management board of Degussa AG with the responsibility for research and development. Offermanns remained a member of the board until 2000. He managed the development and expansion of Degussa's research center in .

Honours

Heribert Offermanns was the president of the

. Offermanns was board member of the

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University

in Frankfurt. Heribert Offermanns has published numerous scientific papers on sulfur chemistry and on the production and use of hydrogen peroxide, he holds also several patents.

Awards

• Heribert Offermanns received an honorary doctorate in engineering at the
  RWTH Aachen^[1]
• 1997: Carl Duisberg Medal of the German Chemical Society^[2]
• 2001: Karl Winnacker Prize of the University of Marburg^[1]
• 2011: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany^[3]

Publications

• Offermanns, Heribert (2011). "Azalogie-Prinzip: hin und zurück". Nachrichten aus der Chemie (in German). 59 (12). Wiley: 1152–1153.
  ISSN 1439-9598
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• Offermanns, Heribert (2009). "Der andere Ostwald". Nachrichten aus der Chemie (in German). 57 (12). Wiley: 1201–1202.
  ISSN 1439-9598
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• PMID 17563914
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• H. Offermanns: A plea for basic research - Utility is just a second-order moment, in: Chemie in unserer Zeit 2002, 36, 306–309.
• H. Offermanns: Wasserstoffperoxid - Verwendung in Umweltschutz und Synthese, in: Chemie in unserer Zeit 2000, 34, 150–159.
• Martens, Jürgen; Offermanns, Heribert; Scherberich, Paul (1981). "Einfache Synthese von racemischem Cystein". Angewandte Chemie (in German). 93 (8). Wiley: 680–683.
  ISSN 0044-8249
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• Weigert, Wolfgang M.; Offermanns, Heribert; Degussa, Paul Scherberich (1975). "D-Penicillamine?Production and Properties". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 14 (5). Wiley: 330–336.
  PMID 808979
  .
• H. Offermanns, F. Asinger: Synthesen mit Ketonen, Schwefel und Ammoniak bzw. Aminen und chemisches Verhalten der Reaktionsprodukte, Westdeutscher Verlag, Köln und Opladen, 1966.
• Wolf, Mechthild (1998). Immer eine Idee besser : Forscher und Erfinder der Degussa (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Degussa AG.
  OCLC 48926783
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• Asinger, F.; Offermanns, H.; Neuray, D.; Müller, P. (1970). "Synthese von Thiomorpholin und 2-monoalkylierten Thiomorpholinen via 5,6-Dihydro-1,4-thiazine". Monatshefte für Chemie (in German). 101 (5). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 1295–1308.
  S2CID 91952256
  .

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