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Albrecht Haack, was born on December 6, 1898 in Südende and is dead on September 22, 1976 in Munich. He was a german chemist.

Biography
Albrecht Haack studied chemistry and natural sciences a the University of Erlangen from 1919 to 1924 where he graduated. He obtained his doctorate in 1926 in the company of Otto Fischer and Anton Vilsmeier. Between 1928 and 1941, he worked in a industrial dairy as a chemist in Karlsruhe. And from 1941 to 1945, he did his military service then he worked for the fiscal authorities in Erlangen and Nuremberg and in other positions and disciplines et dans d'autres postes et disciplines that have nothing to do with chemistry. In 1963, he retired.

He discovered Vilsmeier-Haack reaction with another german chemist; Anton Vilsmeier. This reaction consists of the formylation of aromatics between formamides and phosphorus oxychlorides. However, according to Vilsmeier, this reaction was only the elucidation of the synthesis method he had previously found.