Rudolf Brill (September 7, 1899 – February 17, 1989)[1] was a German chemist who was born in Eschwege and died in Lenggries.
[2] Rudolf Friedrich Heinrich Erhard Ernst Brill was born in Eschwege in 1899 as the son of a businessman.
[3] After completing his doctorate, he moved to a research laboratory at IG Farben in Ludwigshafen-Oppau, where he worked from 1923 till 1941.
Brill was appointed to the Chair of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and at the same time was made head of the institute.
Due to his special professional and organizational skills, Brill was the only candidate that the university suggested to the state government.
As the successor to Eduard Zintl, who was promoted by the Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger, Brill had a new building, about half-completed, with generous financial and human resources at his disposal.
[6] In the course of his appointment to Darmstadt, Brill applied for admission to the Nazi Party on August 11, 1941, and was admitted on October 1 of the same year (membership number 8,937,739).
He was one of nine Darmstadt professors and research associates in whom the United States War Department expressed an interest in August 1945.