Career
While working for Bayer AG, he discovered Chloroquine, the active ingredient in the malaria drug Resochin®. He also first synthesized Vitamin B6 with Richard Kuhn, Kurt Westphal and Gerhardt Wendt. He was awarded a Doctor degree for his dissertation "Synthese des natürlichen Koproporphyrins sowie zweier damit isomerer Porphyrine" at the Technical University Munich on September 9th, 1927.
Hans Andersag"s grave and gravestone are located at the "Alter Lutherischer Friedhof an der Hochstrasse" in Wuppertal-Elberfeld.
