Alfred Heiduschka

Alfred Robert Heiduschka (born March 22, 1875 in Dresden ; † November 7, 1957 in Königswinter / Rhein) was a German food chemist and professor at the Technical University of Dresden .

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Alfred Heiduschka attended the Dreikönigsschule in Dresden until 1891 and then became a pharmacist. In 1895 he passed the Abitur in Dresden. He studied chemistry in Geneva and pharmacy from 1897 in Leipzig. After his license to practice medicine, he studied chemistry again in Dresden and worked at the Inorganic Chemical Institute. In 1901 he became a Dr.-Ing. PhD. After working in the Elberfeld paint factories , he worked in the Laboratory for Hygiene and Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden and in June 1907 passed the state examination for food chemistry at the University of Munich. He was also promoted to Dr. phil. He completed his habilitation in 1909 in Munich on the chemistry and analysis of fats . In 1916 Heiduschka was appointed professor of pharmaceutical and applied chemistry at the University of Würzburg . He returned to Dresden in 1920 as a full professor, at the same time he headed the laboratory for food and fermentation chemistry and the directorate of the state agency for public health care. In 1925/26 he was rector of the Technical University of Dresden. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . After 1933 he was denounced for "political unreliability" and responded with passive resistance. He retired, but continued to hold the office until Kurt Täufel took over the chair in 1940 .

Heiduschka dealt with the bacteriology and hygiene up to the hydrogenation of fat , with food substitutes , proof of alcohol as well as research on wine, tobacco and nicotine .

Web links

• Entry Saxon Biography
• Literature by and about Alfred Heiduschka in the catalog of the German National Library