Peter Kretschmer (food technologist)

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Peter Kretschmer (born November 12, 1938 in Kurort Oberwiesenthal ; † June 8, 2017 in Nuthetal ) was a German researcher , inventor and food technologist . His most important developments in the GDR include a. the well-known Tempo peas , Kuko rice and the Manasan baby food, later a production of kerosene from algae at the Institute for Grain Processing (IGV) in Nuthetal . Kretschmer was known as the " Daniel jet engine of the GDR food industry".

Life

Peter Kretschmer was born in 1938 in the weather station on the Fichtelberg . His father, who worked there as a meteorologist, moved with his family to Potsdam for the meteorological service in 1951 . After training from 1953 to 1958 as a food chemistry laboratory assistant and as a chemical-technical assistant , Peter Kretschmer studied chemical process engineering from 1958 to 1961 . From 1961 Kretschmer worked at the Institute for Grain Processing IGV in Bergholz-Rehbrücke (Potsdam-Mittelmark) / Institute for Nutrition, until 1970 as an employee, then until 1990 as head of the food and spices department. Kretschmer's job as a lead process engineer was to transfer products from food research to large-scale production. Since the GDR only had a small amount of currency to buy food production plants and patents in capitalist countries , the developments of the IGV made it possible to supply the population of the GDR with innovative foods. At the same time, the Tempo products save cooking time in private households and thus make considerable energy savings.

During the political change in the GDR , Kretschmer was elected managing director by the staff of the IGV, which had been converted into a GmbH, and was confirmed by the trust . In 1991, Kretschmer founded the Institute for Food and Environmental Research. In 1994, the IGV was bought from the Treuhand by MBO . In 2010, at the age of 72, Kretschmer received his doctorate from the TU Berlin . Kretschmer was managing partner of the IGV from 1990 to 2014.

Peter Kretschmer was married, had two children and lived in Wilhelmshorst .

research

Peter Kretschmer was significantly involved in the development and its transfer to large-scale production of the following foods in the GDR:

  • 1964: Tempo peas
  • 1965: Tempo beans
  • 1969: Kuko, short-cooked rice in a cooking bag
  • 1969: Mekorna, instant multigrain baby food
  • 1972: Manasan, baby food (Head: Friedrich-Karl Grütte)
  • 1969: Cornflakes
  • 1969: peanut flips
  • Combo cocoa
  • 1978: chewing gum (Bernburg)

Prices

  • 2007: Eberhard Paech Prize

Works

  • Peter Kretschmer: Development of a technology for the production of rye foam fiber products and their application , Berlin, Technical University, dissertation, 2010 DNB 1010351656

literature

  • Petra Kabus, Constanze Schröder: The kitchen of the atomic age: speed peas and kuko rice In: Genial. Inventions from Berlin and Brandenburg , CULTURCON Medien, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941092-32-7 , p. 136. ( online )
  • Wolfgang Runge: Technology Entrepreneurship: A Treatise on Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship for and in Technology Ventures. Vol 1 and Vol 2. KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2014, ISBN 978-3-7315-0107-7 , p. 1044 f ., doi : 10.5445 / KSP / 1000036457 ( preview in Google book search).
  • Heiner Hein, Ten Minute Pea , in Berliner Zeitung, Berlin, December 2, 1962, Volume 18, Issue 331, Page 11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IGV Institute for Grain Processing GmbH: IGV GmbH • We mourn the loss of our longstanding managing director and owner. June 15, 2017. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jens Steglich: Peter Kretschmer is the father of the Tempo peas - now he's retiring. In: Märkische Allgemeine. November 26, 2014, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Matthies: The father of the Tempo pea is dead. June 14, 2017, accessed on July 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ IGV Institute for Grain Processing GmbH: IGV GmbH • Your partner for food technology and biotechnology. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Home - Institute for Food and Environmental Research eV (ILU). Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  6. Jump up ↑ Tempo Peas. In: DDR Museum Berlin. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ "Tempo peas" - VEB Nahrungsmittelwerke Suppina Auerbach, in the VEB Kombinat Nahrungsmittel und Kaffee, Halle. In: Google Arts & Culture. Google Cultural Institute, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ image: Tempo bean. In: ostprodukte-versand.de. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Kuko rice. In: GDR Lexicon. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Child and baby food. In: GDR Lexicon. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  11. ^ Berlin State Library, newspaper department: ZEFYS newspaper information system - Berlin State Library. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Ch. Dittmer, A. Dittmer, F.-K. Grütte, Walheide Müller-Beuthow: The influence of Manasan on stool pH, stool flora and acid-base homeostasis in young infants . In: Food / nutrition . tape 31 , no. 5-6 , 1987, ISSN  1521-3803 , pp. 567-573 , doi : 10.1002 / food.19870310573 .
  13. ↑ New pricing policy, delivery bottlenecks and consumer protection. In: deutsche-einheit-1990.de. Federal Foundation for Work-Up, accessed on July 8, 2017 .
  14. ^ Berlin State Library, newspaper department: ZEFYS newspaper information system - Berlin State Library. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Peter Könnicke: Speed ​​peas as a baptism of fire. In: pnn.de. November 12, 2003. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  16. ^ GDR peanut flips. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Bernd Nowack: Old: "Combo" cocoa drink from GDR times. August 4, 2013. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Today this company is the only one in Germany to produce the popular balls: The GDR's secret chewing gum factory. In: BILD.de. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Torsten Adam: Chewing Gum Factory: Taste of Freedom from Bernburg. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . April 23, 2013, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Prize winners - Eberhard Paech Prize. Accessed on July 8, 2017 : "... for the orientation of the Institute for Grain Processing IGV GmbH on process engineering new developments in bakery technology and its commitment to the training of the next generation of bakers, especially in the new federal states."
  21. ^ Berlin State Library, newspaper department: ZEFYS newspaper information system - Berlin State Library. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kretschmer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German researcher, inventor and food technologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberwiesenthal
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2017
Place of death Nuthetal