Hugo Stoltzenberg
Hugo Gustav Adolf Stoltzenberg (27 April 1883 – 14 January 1974) was a
Stoltzenberg was a close collaborator of Nobel Prize laureate Fritz Haber, the father of German chemical warfare.[2]: 163–166 They both collaborated in the disposal of chemical warfare materials and the building of manufacturing plants in La Marañosa, near Madrid, Spain, the Soviet Union and Germany.[1]
Early life
Stoltzenberg was born on 27 April 1883 in
World War I
Stoltzenberg was the main protagonist at the
Prior to that, Stoltzenberg had injured his eye in an incident involving a chlorine gas cylinder which exploded and blinded him in the left eye.[6]
Interwar years
After the end of World War I, Stoltzenberg participated in clearing away the stockpiles of the chemical warfare agents in Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, Germany between 1920 and 1925. Many of those agents were sold to the U.S. and Sweden while the rest were taken to "Chemische Fabrik Stoltzenberg", his own company in Hamburg.[6]
Involvement in the Rif War
Stoltzenberg built a close relationship with the
Other contracts
In 1923, he signed his second contract. The Soviets wanted to modernize their chemical arsenal and asked Stoltzenberg to become a chief engineer in replacing the
Upon his return to Germany he sat up a new laboratory producing “timed-release hydrogen cyanide,” which was patented in Great Britain.
Later years
Stoltzenberg joined the Nazi Party in the middle of World War II. He continued his research at his laboratory in Hamburg before selling it in 1969. He died in 1974.[6]
References and notes
- ^ a b "Division of the History of Chemistry". American Chemical Society. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved 2007-04-12.
- ISBN 0-941901-24-6.
- ^ Henning Schweer: Die Geschichte der Chemischen Fabrik Stoltzenberg bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. GNT, Diepholz, 2008, S. 15
- ^ Henning Schweer: Die Geschichte der Chemischen Fabrik Stoltzenberg bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. GNT, Diepholz, 2008, S. 15-16.
- ^ M.D. LAW; Meredith Vibart Dixon (1950). Chambers's Encyclopaedia. Oxford University Press - Original from the University of Michigan. p. 334.
- ^ a b c d e Garrett, Benjamin C. (1995). "Hugo Stoltzenberg and Chemical Weapons Proliferation" (PDF). The Monitor Volume 1, Number 2. University of Georgia. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2007-04-12.
- ISBN 3-7930-0196-2.
- ISBN 0-19-925296-3.