Alfred Vogel (entrepreneur)

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Alfred Vogel (around 1960)

Alfred Max Vogel (born October 26, 1902 in Aesch , † October 1, 1996 in Feusisberg ) was a Swiss naturopath and pharmaceutical entrepreneur.

Life

Birthplace of Alfred Vogel on the lower Kirchgasse in Aesch, Basel-Land.
Inscription on the birthplace of Alfred Vogel in Aesch, Basel-Land. Swiss naturopath, pioneer, entrepreneur
Information board at the birthplace of Alfred Vogel in Aesch, Basel-Land.

According to his own information, Alfred Vogel learned medicine from his herbalist father and grandmother, as well as traveling to Africa, Asia and America. In 1920 Vogel opened a health food store in Basel . In 1927 he married the elementary school teacher Sophie Sommer. There were two daughters from the marriage. In 1929 he founded the A. Vogel publishing house in Teufen and brought out the monthly Das neue Leben for naturopathy and naturally healthy living, which was later renamed A.Vogel Gesundheits-Nachrichten . The magazine now appears ten times a year with a circulation of around 29,000 copies. According to his own account, his book The Little Doctor has now been sold two million times in twelve languages. Vogel's plant remedies are often used alternative remedies in the United States as well. In 1933 Vogel founded a private clinic in Teufen. 1963 followed with the company Bioforce AG (since January 1, 2020: A. Vogel AG) his own pharmaceutical company in Roggwil (Canton Thurgau) , which produces and sells its natural healing products to this day.

Vogel was convinced that most diseases arise or are favored by poor nutrition: "You are what you eat." He recommended a diet with as high a proportion of fresh fruit and vegetables as possible, as well as a balanced lifestyle in respect of nature. The interaction of a healthy lifestyle, natural remedies and healthy nutrition was his focus.

Alfred Vogel receiving the Priessnitz Medal from the German Heilpraktiker-Gesellschaft (1982)

Honors

Publications

  • Small guide to life reform (1925)
  • Food as a healing factor (1935)
  • The Little Doctor (1952, currently: 74th revised edition 2020)
  • The liver as a regulator of health (1960, new edition 2019 under the title The liver regulates health )
  • Health guide through southern countries, subtropics, tropics and desert areas (1972)
  • Cancer - fate or disease of civilization? (1982)
  • Nature as a biological guide (1983)
  • A. Vogel Health News. Journal for Naturally Healthy Living (1929 ff.)

Web links

Commons : Alfred Vogel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  • Jörg Melzer, Reinhard Saller: The "natural doctor" Alfred Vogel (1902–1996). In: Swiss Journal for Holistic Medicine. Vol. 15 (2003), pp. 66-72 and 118-123.
  • Verlag A.Vogel , website of A.Vogel

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal, Das neue Leben
  2. ↑ Media data 2019 , A.Vogel website, accessed on November 29, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Alfred Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss naturopath and pharmaceutical entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Aesch
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1996
Place of death Feusisberg