Fresenius, Birgit
Fresenius, Birgit
Chemical technician
Born: 12.09.1918 in Wiesbaden
died: 03.09.2008 in Schlangenbad
Fresenius, daughter of Remigius Ludwig Fresenius, trained as a chemical technician at the Fresenius Chemical Laboratory after graduating from high school and worked there as a teaching assistant from 1939.
After the Second World War, she played a decisive role in rebuilding the Fresenius Chemical Laboratory and the Fresenius Chemical School. Together with her brother Wilhelm Friedrich Nils Remigius Fresenius, she took over the management of the chemistry school during the reconstruction years.
Fresenius was particularly committed to the vocational training of graduates of the chemistry school and a regulated transition to university studies; she was also chairwoman of the Wiesbaden district of the "German Association of Professional Women".
Literature
Czysz, Walter: 140 Jahre Chemisches Laboratorium Fresenius Wiesbaden 1848-1988. Offprint from the yearbook vol. 111 of the Nassauischer Verein für Naturkunde 1988/89, Wiesbaden 1992.
Gros, Leo/Köhler, Barbara (ed.): Carl Remigius Fresenius und das Chemische Laboratorium Fresenius, series Historische Stätten der Chemie, Wiesbaden July 18, 2013. ed.: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Frankfurt am Main 2013.