Wilhelm Haarmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German chemist
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Place of Birth: Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Wilhelm Haarmann
- Gustav Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Haarmann (24 May 1847 – 6 March 1931) was a German chemist and together with Karl Reimer and Ferdinand Tiemann as scientific consultant founded the Haarmann & Reimer chemical plant for the production of vanillin. Beginning in 1866, Haarmann studied at the Mining academy Clausthal later he changed to the University of Göttingen.
- He joined August Wilhelm von Hofmann 1869 at the University of Berlin.
- He received his PhD in Göttingen 1872.
- Together with Ferdinand Tiemann, both working with Hoffmann, Haarmann founded 1875 Haarmann's Vanillinfabrik, producing vanillin from coniferin.
- The Reimer-Tiemann reaction discovered by Karl Reimer opened an alternative path to vanillin and Reimer joined the company which was renamed to Haarmann & Raimer. Haarmann & Raimer was bought by the Bayer AG in 1953 and became an independent company again in 2003 under the name Symrise.
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