Reinhard Mecke (born 14 July 1895 in Stettin; died 30 December 1969) was a German physicist, who focused on chemical physics.
[1] He then worked for Heinrich Konen at the university of Bonn, where he habilitated in 1923 on spectral bands of jod[2] and where he became a privatdozent.
1932 he became extraordinary professor for chemical physics at the University of Heidelberg, as proposed by Max Trautz.
He investigated spectral bands of evaporated water and infrared and Raman spectroscopy of small organic molecules.
1937 he became professor for theoretical physics at the university of Freiburg and investigated there hydrogen bonds by infrared spectroscopy.