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Prof. em. Dr. Helmut Kaesche
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| Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Helmut Kaesche was born in Aachen, Rheinland, in 1928. He studied chemistry, especially physical chemistry, at the Institute of Technology in Darmstadt between 1948 and 1953,ending with the diploma thesis "Catalysis of the Thermal Disaggregation of Formic Acid by Alloys". He joined the Max-Planck-Institut for Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. K. F. Bonhoeffer) in Goettingen in 1953 as a doctoral student, working on the thesis " The Kinetics of the Iron Electrode in Acid Solutions" until 1956. He then stayed from 1956 to 1957 as a postdoctoral student and Fulbright grantee with Prof. N. Hackerman at the State University in Austin, Texas, working on the mechanism of corrosion inhibition. Afterwards he joined the Federal Institute for Materials Testing and Research (BAM) in Berlin (West) in 1957 where he occupied positions ending with that of the head of the Corrosion Division. During this time, he also prepared his habilitation thesis "Investigations into the Corrosion and Pitting of Aluminum" and became lecturer, later external Professor at the Mining and Metals Production Faculty of the Institute of Technology in Berlin. He spent a research guest year at the Institute for Steel Research in St. Germain-en- Laye, France, 1965/66. In 1970, he joined the Technical Faculty of the University in Erlangen as full professor and head of the new Chair for Corrosion and Surface Technology. He has published many scientific papers on various aspects of metallic corrosion, and is author of the book "Metallic Corrosion; Physicochemical principles and Current Problems", which has experienced Russian, English and Chinese translations. |