title: Herman Klare
text: # Herman Klare
  
  Hermann Klare (12 May 1909 – 22 August 2003) was a chemistry academic who played a prominent role in scientific administration and research in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Klare held professorships at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg and at Humboldt University (Berlin). From 1968 to 1979 he was president of the German Academy of Sciences (renamed the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1972).
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Technology and chemistry of synthetic polyamide fibers. Berlin 1954
  * Synthetic polyamide fibers: technology and chemistry. Berlin 1963 (as co-author)
  * The Academy of Sciences of the GDR: the 275th anniversary of the founding of the Academy. Berlin 1975
  * History of chemical fiber research to the present. Berlin 1985
  