Wednesday 26 November 1913. Published in J. of the Society. of Chemical
Industry, 2, XXXIII, (31 January 1914).
15. Leeds University Library, Special Collections MS 705, Papers of Henry James
Hodsman, (1886–1951), with whom Haber had published earlier in 1909
(see references in Chap. 12) Born in York and educated there at Archbishop
Holgate’s School, Hodsman graduated in chemistry at the University of
Leeds in 1906. He took his MSc a year later and then, supported by the
award of an 1851 Exhibition, studied applied chemistry at the Technische
Hochschule Karlsruhe under Haber and at the Sorbonne in Paris under
Henri Le Chatelier. He returned to England and after a short period of
employment in industry (at the ‘cyanide firm’ in Birmingham), rejoined the
University of Leeds as a lecturer in 1912. He eventually became senior
lecturer in the Department of Coal, Gas and Fuel Industries. He died on 31
January 1951 shortly before his planned retirement.
16. Curiously however, there was no announcement of Peter Walter’s birth in
The Times. His birth date was found for me by Nicholas Rogers, Archivist at
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in response to a request of mine by email.
I am grateful to Mr. Rogers. See also Chap. 16. Peter was probably born at
108 Prinzregenten Strasse.
17. 34% of the vote overall but 75% in ‘red Berlin’ itself.
18. Daniel Charles, Between Genius and Genocide, Jonathan Cape, London,
(2005), p. 127.
19. The historian Fritz Fischer found evidence in the archives in east Prussia in
the 1960s showing that Germany was pro-active in going to war, wanting to
secure her eastern and western borders for all time. He rocked the history
profession with his first post-war book; Griff nach der Weltmacht: Die
Kriegzielpolitik des kaiserlichen Deutschland 1914–1918 (published in English
as Germany’s Aims in the First World War), in which he argued that Germany
had deliberately instigated World War I in an attempt to become a world
power. This went counter to the widely held feeling in Germany at the time
that she was ‘blameless’.
20. Stoltzenberg, op. cit. (note 2), p. 127.
21. In his paper, Haber maintained that the statistics showed that over half the
explosions in the mines were due to the flame of the Davy lamp. His link
with the mines may well have been inspired by the BASF’s dependence on
coal for its hydrogen source. But Coates, op. cit. (note 1), suggests that it was
at the suggestion of the Emperor. Whichever, the whistle was not a commercial success.
22. Based largely on the model of the Prussian Subjects Law of 1842 which stated
that except through later naturalisation, citizenship could only be attained by
descent from a Prussian father, or in the case of an illegitimate birth, from a
Prussian mother. See also Mathew Stibbe, British civilian internees in
Germany. The Ruhleben camp, 1914–1918. Manchester University Press,
12 Berlin 1911–1914
239
Industry, 2, XXXIII, (31 January 1914).
15. Leeds University Library, Special Collections MS 705, Papers of Henry James
Hodsman, (1886–1951), with whom Haber had published earlier in 1909
(see references in Chap. 12) Born in York and educated there at Archbishop
Holgate’s School, Hodsman graduated in chemistry at the University of
Leeds in 1906. He took his MSc a year later and then, supported by the
award of an 1851 Exhibition, studied applied chemistry at the Technische
Hochschule Karlsruhe under Haber and at the Sorbonne in Paris under
Henri Le Chatelier. He returned to England and after a short period of
employment in industry (at the ‘cyanide firm’ in Birmingham), rejoined the
University of Leeds as a lecturer in 1912. He eventually became senior
lecturer in the Department of Coal, Gas and Fuel Industries. He died on 31
January 1951 shortly before his planned retirement.
16. Curiously however, there was no announcement of Peter Walter’s birth in
The Times. His birth date was found for me by Nicholas Rogers, Archivist at
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in response to a request of mine by email.
I am grateful to Mr. Rogers. See also Chap. 16. Peter was probably born at
108 Prinzregenten Strasse.
17. 34% of the vote overall but 75% in ‘red Berlin’ itself.
18. Daniel Charles, Between Genius and Genocide, Jonathan Cape, London,
(2005), p. 127.
19. The historian Fritz Fischer found evidence in the archives in east Prussia in
the 1960s showing that Germany was pro-active in going to war, wanting to
secure her eastern and western borders for all time. He rocked the history
profession with his first post-war book; Griff nach der Weltmacht: Die
Kriegzielpolitik des kaiserlichen Deutschland 1914–1918 (published in English
as Germany’s Aims in the First World War), in which he argued that Germany
had deliberately instigated World War I in an attempt to become a world
power. This went counter to the widely held feeling in Germany at the time
that she was ‘blameless’.
20. Stoltzenberg, op. cit. (note 2), p. 127.
21. In his paper, Haber maintained that the statistics showed that over half the
explosions in the mines were due to the flame of the Davy lamp. His link
with the mines may well have been inspired by the BASF’s dependence on
coal for its hydrogen source. But Coates, op. cit. (note 1), suggests that it was
at the suggestion of the Emperor. Whichever, the whistle was not a commercial success.
22. Based largely on the model of the Prussian Subjects Law of 1842 which stated
that except through later naturalisation, citizenship could only be attained by
descent from a Prussian father, or in the case of an illegitimate birth, from a
Prussian mother. See also Mathew Stibbe, British civilian internees in
Germany. The Ruhleben camp, 1914–1918. Manchester University Press,
12 Berlin 1911–1914
239