Gerhard Madaus

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Gerhard Madaus (born February 25, 1890 in Nestau , Uelzen district , † February 26, 1942 in Dresden ) was a German medic and industrialist .

biography

Madaus, whose mother Magdalene Johanne Marie (1857-1925) since 1897 natural remedies manufactured and since 1904 also sales, founded after graduation to the Dr. med. 1919 ( aortic aneurysm with rupture in the trachea ) at the University of Bonn, together with his brothers Friedemund and Hans, a company for the production of natural medicines, the Drug Factory Dr. Madaus & Co , brought homeopathic and biochemical preparations as well as oligoplexes to the market as early as 1920, when it was founded, and set up a branch in Stuttgart . Further branches followed in Radeburg near Dresden (1921), Berlin , Amsterdam , Dudweiler and Warsaw , in the 1930s in Breslau , Budapest , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Königsberg , Munich and Teplitz ; Representations were set up in 16 countries. In 1929 the head office was relocated to Radebeul for reasons of space . After the death of the Saxon automobile manufacturer Emil Nacke in 1933, Madaus acquired his Johannisberg winery in Zitzschewig .

Since 1920 he published a monthly for psychotherapy, medicine and natural healing powers, which was later renamed Biological Healing Art . From 1926 the yearbook Dr. Madaus & Co.

In 1938 he wrote a three-volume textbook on biological remedies, Section I. (Medicinal Plants) , the completion of which with the departments of minerals and remedies from the animal kingdom prevented his early death.

Based on the company's program of scientifically testing folk medicine remedies and producing them using modern methods, Madaus developed, among other things, the tea process for extracting active ingredients from fresh plants without exposure to heat; Since 1936 he has carried out bacteriological and animal experiments on sterility with silent pipe extract.

Madaus was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten .

He died in Dresden in February 1942, his grave is in Cologne. The city of Radebeul honored Madaus in 2001 by naming Gerhard-Madaus-Strasse after him.

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  1. a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 ? P. 386, S. Fischer. Frankfurt am Main 2003. ISBN 3-596-16048-0
  2. The Radebeul city lexicon incorrectly states Radebeul as the place of death (information from the Radebeul city archive from October 13, 2014).