11 Facts About Paul Kogerman

Paul Kogerman was born into a family of gas factory worker.

From 1921 to 1936, Paul Kogerman was active at the University of Tartu.

Paul Kogerman went on to become extraordinary professor in 1924 and full professor in 1925.

In 1938, Paul Kogerman was selected to the newly established Estonian Academy of Sciences and in 1946 reselected after re-establishment of the Academy as the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.

From October 1939 until the Soviet occupation of Estonia on 21 June 1940 Paul Kogerman served as Minister of Public Education.

Paul Kogerman was prematurely released and allowed to return to Estonia in 1945.

In 1927 Paul Kogerman was decorated with the insignia of the Legion d'honneur and in 1938 with the Second Class of the Order of the White Star.

In 2006 the Paul Kogerman scholarship was founded, to be granted to successful master's and doctoral level students of the Faculties of Science and Chemical and Materials Technology of the Tallinn University of Technology.

Paul Kogerman won international reputation with his work on oil shale.

Paul Kogerman initiated systematic research of oil shale and its products by establishing, together with professor Michael Wittlich, a laboratory to study oil-bearing shales in 1925.

Paul Kogerman submitted fundamental work on the structure and origin of oil shale and its chemical characteristics, as well as work on thermal processes.