Hans Finkelstein (17 May 1885, Leipzig, Germany - December 1938) was a German chemist.
[1][2] Hans Finkelstein came from a liberal Jewish family and joined the Protestant Church when he was 10 years old.
After studying in Leipzig and Dresden he worked on his doctoral thesis with Johannes Thiele in Strasbourg from 1906, submitting it in 1909.
In 1912 Finkelstein transitioned from university to industry as head of the research department at Bayer AG, Uerdingen.
In November 1938 shortly after the Kristallnacht and the subsequent Decree on the Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life,[3] Finkelstein was forced to resign from his position in the company and to surrender his passport due to his Jewish descent.