Karl Haas (pharmacist)

Karl Haas (born September 26, 1869 in Friedrichshafen , † November 26, 1946 in Stuttgart ) was a German pharmacist and manufacturer.

Life

Karl Haas was born as the son of a chief customs administrator. From 1883 he studied with the pharmacist Gustav Ernst Leube in Ulm , and in 1886 he passed the assistant examination in Stuttgart . From 1886 to 1889 he worked as an assistant in Wertheim , Schweinfurt and Lausanne . He studied from 1889 to 1891 at the Kgl. Polytechnic school in Stuttgart, where he passed his pharmacy exam. He then worked as an employee in Ulm and Reutlingen . In 1908 he started his own business as a chemist in Reutlingen , and from 1909 he worked as a manufacturer.

In 1933 he relocated his company with the name "Karl Haas & Co. Chemical-Pharmaceutical Preparations" to Stuttgart. It existed here until 1936. Haas made the sulphurized rock oil preparation “Liasol” from Lias slate . Preparations made from Liass slate were used in dermatology for a long time. Haas described himself as the inventor of Ekajod and Carmium , the "Swabian radium".

Publications

• About the production of ichthyol-like compounds from Liass slate . In: Süddeutsche Apotheker-Zeitung . 45 (1905), p. 19 f.

literature

• Haas, Karl . In: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung 135 (1995), issue 45, p. 4264.
• Walter Merz: 300 years of Hirsch Pharmacy Reutlingen. 1699-1999 , Reutlingen 1999.
• Walter Merz: 300 years of Hirsch Pharmacy Reutlingen In: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung . 139 (1999), No. 18, pp. 1894-1895.
• Armin Wankmüller : Pharmacist Karl Haas, manufacturer of Liasol in Reutlingen . In: Contributions to the history of pharmacies in Württemberg . 17/1 (1990), pp. 8-9 ( digitized version ).
• Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz (Eds.): German Pharmacist Biography Supplementary Volume 2. Scientific Publishing Society, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8047-1565-6 , S. #.