Hans Keller (inventor)

Hans Keller (born May 14, 1898 ; † after 1968) was a German inventor.

Career

Keller founded a food company in Nuremberg in 1920 that had 100 employees at the end of the 1950s. He emerged as an inventor in the field of apparatus engineering. Among other things, he found a process for the preparation of raw materials for lemonade production, the reliable preservation of natural fruit juice and designed apparatus for raw material production and refinement. He was awarded 15 patents.

He was President of the German Inventors' Association and created the first inventor register with around 35,000 addresses. In 1953 he was appointed to the board of directors of the Deutsches Museum and was elected to the advisory board of the State Office of Chemistry and the trade committee of the State Spiritual Directorate.

Honors

1958: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

source

Federal Archives B 122/38473

personal data
SURNAME	Keller, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German inventor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1898
DATE OF DEATH	20th century