Obituary to Prof. Maximilian Knollmüller (1935-2021)
TU Wien, especially Faculty of Technical Chemistry and Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry mourns the death of Prof. Maximilian Knollmüller With deep concern we have learned that our colleague, mentor and teacher Prof. Maximilian Knollmüller died on 25.4.2021 after a long illness that was endured with great patience in the 87th year of life. Maximilian Knollmüller was born in 1935 in Linz. After the final exam with distinction in the Realgymnasium in Schlierbach he began to study in 1954 chemistry as major and physics as minor subject at the University of Vienna. He completed the study in 1962 with a dissertation under the guidance of Prof. Otto Hromatka on "Syntheses in the Phenthiazin Series". Already at this time he worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Vienna. With the appointment of his mentor and teacher Otto Hromatka to the Technische Hochschule Wien in 1963 he also moved to our university. First as a university assistant and since 1970 as a senior assistant employed, he submitted his habilitation thesis on "Cyclic and Bicyclic Sulfamides" in 1971 and received the venia docendi for the subject "Organic Chemistry" in 1972.
