In 1944 he succeeded the head of the organic chemistry department Wilhelm Schlenk at the University of Tübingen.
Karl Friedrich von Auwers (September 16, 1863 – May 3, 1939) was a German chemist and the academic adviser of Karl Ziegler and Georg Wittig at the University of Marburg.
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Studies of organolithium reagents began in the 1930 and were pioneered by Karl Ziegler, Georg Wittig and Henry Gilman.