Max Morgenthaler
Max Rudolf Morgenthaler (born May 20, 1901 in Burgdorf ; † September 8, 1980 in Jongny ) was a Swiss food chemist and is considered the inventor of Nescafé .
Life
Morgenthaler attended high school in Burgdorf and from 1919 studied chemistry at the Burgdorf Technical Center . In 1924 he was a doctoral student with Fritz Ephraim at the University of Bern and employed in the Bern canton laboratory. From 1924 he ran his own laboratory and from 1926 to 1929 he worked at the Federal Dairy and Bacteriological Institute in Liebefeld . In 1929 he moved to Nestlé in Vevey .
At Nestlé, he was commissioned in 1929 to develop a long-life canned coffee in order to be able to use the coffee beans from overproduction. Morgentaler worked on this project for four years, which was then stopped by Nestlé. However, he did further private research and was finally able to present his working procedure in 1936. The instant instant coffee was patented in his name and launched as a product by Nestlé in 1938 under the name Nescafé . He was assured a tenth of a per mille of the turnover of the invention by the Nestlé company.
In 1940 Morgenthaler received the company's gold medal of merit and power of attorney . Due to differences in the quality assurance of the Nescafé product , he was released early in 1955.
literature
- Biographical lexicon of deceased Swiss people. Vol. 8, 1982, p. 67.
- Jean Heer: Nestlé: One hundred and twenty-five years from 1866 to 1991. Nestlé, Vevey 1991, pp. 184-187.
- Ernst Schwenk: Morgenthaler, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 121 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Christoph Zürcher: Morgenthaler, Max. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
- The father of Nescafé , detailed article in the Tages-Anzeiger on April 2, 2013 on the 75th anniversary of the market launch of Nescafé
Individual evidence
- ↑ Died: Max Rudolf Morgenthaler , obituary for Max Rudolf Morgenthaler in the Spiegel from September 15, 1980
- ↑ According to information in the article in the Tagesanzeiger (see web links), Morgenthaler left Nestlé in 1955.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morgenthaler, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morgenthaler, Max Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss food chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgdorf , Canton of Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1980 |
| Place of death | Jongny , Canton of Vaud |