His son Karl von Auwers became a well known chemist and discoverer of the Auwers synthesis.
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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As successor of Hans Hübner, Victor Meyer came to Göttingen and some renown chemists worked as assistants in his group, like Rudolf Leuckart, Emil Knoevenagel, Traugott Sandmeyer and Karl von Auwers.