Kurt adler biography
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Kurt Alder was born in Konigshutte, Upper Silesia, on July 10, 1902. He started understanding chemistry at Berlin University in 1922, and later continued these studies at Kiel, where he obtained his grad of Ph.D. in 1926. In 1940, Alder was elected on the Chair for Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Technology at Cologne University and became Principal of the Institute of Chemistry. As early as 1927-1928, Alder studied problems of systematic organic chemistry in collaboration with his teacher O. Diels, and this lead to their joint upptäckt of the principle of the diene-synthesis, which they examined and determined in all its aspects. At the same time, Alder also worked in teamwork with younger colleagues on wide stereochemical investigations, encouraged by urval happenings during organic kemikalie reactions, particularly in unlimited systems. A series of other problems, such as the behaviors of double bonds in extended carbon rings and the observable facts of intermolecul
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Kurt S. Adler
German American businessman (1921– 2004)
Kurt Stephan Adler (June 19, 1921 – November 25, 2004) was a German-American businessman. He was the founder of Kurt S. Adler, Inc., one of the world's largest Christmas ornament businesses.[1]
Biography
[edit]Adler was born into a Jewish family on June 19, 1921, in Würzburg, Germany. When he was 16, with sponsorship from an uncle living in the U.S., he was sent by his parents to live in Manhattan to escape Nazi Germany. Adler learned English and attended high school. He was joined by his parents and sister in 1938.[1] Adler was a shipping clerk in the United States Army during World War II.[2]
After returning from the war, he started a business importing and exporting products like pottery, glassware, and pineapples.[2] After importing hand-carved angels from Bavaria, Adler realized that focusing on Christmas items could be lucrative. He sold European figurines and snow globe
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(Biographical excerpts from from the N.Y. Times obituary by Ford Burkhart, May 31, 1997.)
Kurt Adler, the only son of Alfred Adler, was born in 1905 in Vienna, Austria. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Vienna in 1935 and an M.D. from the Long Island College of Medicine in New York in 1941.
He became a psychiatrist with the U.S. Army in World War II, and after the war began a private practice which he continued until a week before his death on May 28th, 1997. He was medical director and lecturer at the Alfred Adler Institute in New York City for 45 years and practiced at Lenox Hill Hospital.
Extending his father's ideas, Kurt Adler said in his writings and speeches that mental health is achieved through integration into a community, when the person merges his or her own self-interest with the common interest of humanity.
(Our thanks to Horst Groner, editor of the Individual Psychology Newsletter, for permission to publish this interview from the Vol. 40