Institute for the Sugar Industry
The Institute for the Sugar Industry was a research institute for the German sugar industry . It was operated by the Association of the Sugar Industry . The institute, founded in 1867, was integrated into the Technical University of Berlin in 1978 . In 2016, the German Heart Center Berlin , which has its headquarters in the Virchow Clinic across the street, bought the building.
history
The institute was founded by the Sugar Industry Association , which was established in 1850 and to which German sugar producers have largely joined forces. In 1867 he built his own research and teaching institute in Berlin, the Chemical Central Station and Laboratory , which was to be active for the entire industry. After two moves within Berlin, a separate building was finally built in 1904 on Amrumer Straße in today's Wedding district , where the institute stayed for the rest of its time. The building was designed by Anton Adams .
The location in the Plötzensee manor district in the immediate vicinity of the institute for fermentation industry and the experimental and teaching institutes for distillery and brewery developed into a center of applied research: in 1900 the Scientific Department of the Royal Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases was established at the same location (today: Robert Koch -Institute ). Nearby were various training centers for engineers, which later merged to form the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin .
The institute was active in both research and teaching. It quickly became one of the most important research centers for sugar production. Unusually for the time, it organized the first women's course in 1901 for the training of female sugar chemists, from which one of the first women's courses developed. By 1923 a total of 295 participants had been trained.
The construction of the Sugar Museum , which was initially in a room in the institute, also began when it was founded. However, this was only open to trade visitors. 11,000 volumes of the then 13,000 volumes in the library of the Sugar Institute were confiscated by the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War and brought to the Soviet Union. 3,000 volumes of it ended up in the Scientific Research Institute for the Sugar Industry in Kiev . 713 of these volumes found their way back to Berlin in 2013.
After 1945 the institute fell to the city of Berlin. The institute was affiliated to the TU Berlin in 1951 and integrated into it in 1978. Today sugar research is part of the food process engineering department. Until 2015, parts of the TU facilities were still in the former headquarters of the Sugar Institute. The TU trains food technicians there. At the TU there is still an endowed professorship for the sugar industry, which is financed by various sugar producers from Germany and neighboring countries. The former library of the Sugar Institute forms the special collection “Sugar Technology, Sugar Chemistry and Sugar Industry” in the TU library .
The last remnant of the former institute at the old location was the sugar museum. This was opened to the public in 1988 and functioned as the State Museum of Berlin. Since 1995 it has belonged to the German Museum of Technology . In 2012, against bitter local resistance, the latter closed the location in Wedding in order to display the museum holdings in the main office of the Technikmuseum in Kreuzberg at the end of 2015.
The TU sold the building for over three million euros on January 1, 2016 to the German Heart Center Berlin, which had previously rented rooms to accommodate offices and IT. After the renovation and renovation, additional laboratories for medical research are to be set up in the former sugar institute.
literature
- Guntwin Bruhns: 100 Years Institute for the Sugar Industry Sugar Museum in Amrumer Strasse , Edition Bartens / The Blue Series Volume 5 ISBN 978-3-87040-100-9
Footnotes
- ^ A b Luise Berlin: Institute for the Sugar Industry , accessed November 25, 2015
- ↑ a b c d Zuckermuseum: Geschichte , accessed November 24, 2015
- ^ A b Regine Dehnel: Repatriation of cultural property brought back during the war - return of the sugar library , TU Berlin October 17, 2013
- ↑ a b Dirk Jericho: Specialists in the Sugar Institute: Heart Center takes over construction in Amrumer Straße. In: berliner-woche.de. Retrieved March 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Stiftung Sugar Industry: Endowed Professorship for the Sugar Industry , accessed November 24, 2015