At the end of World War II, the city of Munich was mostly ruins. Many buildings of the university of the formerly flourishing Bavarian metropolitan city were destroyed, including the Chemical Institute. In April 1946, the Natural Science Faculty of the University of Munich was reopened. Feodor Lynen (Figure 1), Docent of Chemistry and head of the biochemical section at the institute of the Nobel laureate Heinrich Wieland, who carried out research into natural substances, was provisionally accommodated in the Institute of Zoology, which had remained undestroyed. There were hardly any chemicals and glassware; as much as possible one improvised with the residual material saved from the ruins.
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