Hans Adalbert Schweigart

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Hans Adalbert Schweigart (born July 7, 1900 in Biberberg ; † August 2, 1972 in Hanover ) was a German chemist and nutritionist .

Career

After graduating from high school in Ulm in 1918 , he studied chemistry in Berlin and Munich . He received his doctorate in 1924 with a thesis on potato amylase and then worked as a research assistant at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin with Georg Lockemann . In the same year he became - after several other jobs - provisional head of the Reich Milk Committee . Three years later he took up a position as head of department in the Reich Commissioner for Dairy Industry .

Schweigart joined the NSDAP in 1931 . He was also a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association , the National Socialist People's Welfare and the SA . In 1935 he was appointed head of the Institute for Dairy Production at the University of Berlin and completed his habilitation in 1937 with the thesis The Nutrition Household of the German People . In his nutritional writings in the mid-1930s, he described himself as a National Socialist and aggressively defended the goals of National Socialist nutrition policy.

In 1935 he coined the term vital substances . In his works on the German nutritional situation he pointed out deficiencies in the supply of vitamins B1 and C, which u. a. could be decreased by eating whole grain rice and whole grain bread .

Schweigart was appointed director of the Institute for Inventory Management and Agricultural Research at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in 1942 . During the Second World War he observed among the German soldiers of the Afrikakorps that pork had adverse effects on nutrition in hot climates. He later discovered the phenomenon of oxygen deficiency in cancerous tissue.

From 1945

After 1945 Schweigart quickly got back on his feet as a nutrition expert for the Bizone authorities . In contrast to other nutritionists, his applications for research funds were rejected by the DFG ( German Research Foundation ). He was considered scientifically questionable.

From 1949 to 1954 Schweigart worked for the South African government, first at the "Fruit Research Station" in Stellenbosch and from 1951 as director of an institute in Pretoria . In addition, he was an advisor to the Minister of Health and Nutrition and a member of the Scientific Committee for Potato Research.

Schweigart founded the International Society for Nutrition and Vital Substances Research (IVG) in 1954 , later renamed the International Society for Vital Substances and Civilization Diseases. Long before the environmental movement, IVG developed into a prominent, politically active organization in the areas of nutrition, health and the environment. During Schweigart's presidency, IVG was able to win 17 Nobel Prize winners as honorary members. Albert Schweitzer was Honorary President of the Society from 1956–1965 . He was succeeded by Linus Pauling in 1965 .

Schweigart was elected in 1964 as the first President of the international level of the World Association for the Protection of Life , based in Luxembourg . In this context, he mainly devoted himself to general topics, such as in his public lecture on September 14, 1970 in Trier with the title "Protection of Life or Downfall".

For the IVG Congress in 1972 Schweigart planned a lecture on the ecological effects of the increase in CO 2 up to the year 2200.

Publications

  • The Saalfeld healing springs, their scientific and medical significance. 1927 oA
  • The nutritional budget of the German people. German publishing house for politics and business, Berlin 1937.
  • The physiological picture of butter. Carl Verlag 1956.
  • Biology of vital substances. Zauner publishing house 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jörg Melzer: Whole food nutrition. Dietetics, naturopathy, National Socialism, social demands. Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08278-6 , p. 300ff.
  2. ↑ Dimitrios Ambatielos, Dagmar Neuland-Kitzerow, Karoline Noack: Medicine in a cultural comparison , page 171 , Waxmann, New York, Munich, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89325-490-0
  3. ↑ Jörg Melzer: Whole food nutrition. Dietetics, naturopathy, National Socialism, social demands. Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08278-6 , p. 304, footnote 92.
  4. ↑ Jörg Melzer: Whole food nutrition. Dietetics, naturopathy, National Socialism, social demands. Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08278-6 , p. 304.
  5. ↑ True, B .; Rheinberger, H.-J .; Stoff, H. (2008): Enzymes, Hormones, Vitamins. A history of active ingredients in the context of DFG-funded projects, 1920–1970. Page no longer available , search in web archives: Research group on the history of the German Research Foundation 1920–1970  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report on the final conference on January 30th and 31st, 2008 in Berlin. Pp. 212-225. (PDF; 1.6 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.histsem.uni-freiburg.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.histsem.uni-freiburg.de  
  6. ↑ Jörg Melzer: Whole food nutrition. Dietetics, naturopathy, National Socialism, social demands. Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08278-6 , p. 305.
  7. ↑ Jörg Melzer: Whole food nutrition. Dietetics, naturopathy, National Socialism, social demands. Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08278-6 , p. 307.
  8. ↑ 16th International Convention on Civilization Diseases, Nutrition and Living Conditions, 14. – 20. September 1970 in Luxembourg and Trier
  9. ^ Program of the 18th International Convention on Diseases of Civilization, Nutrition and Living Conditions, 18. – 23. September 1972 in Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Schweigart, Hans Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and nutritionist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberberg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1972
Place of death Hanover