Rudolf Hauschka

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Rudolf Hauschka (born November 6, 1891 in Vienna , † December 28, 1969 in Boll ) was an Austrian chemist. He founded the anthroposophically oriented Wala Heilmittel GmbH in Bad Boll and developed a so-called "rhythmic" manufacturing process. He was also the author of various books.

Biography and research

From 1908 Rudolf Hauschka studied chemistry and medicine in Vienna and Munich; he received his doctorate in June 1914. At this time he described himself as a materialist who is convinced of the power of natural science. However, during his studies he also encountered anthroposophy - mediated by a friend from university . He was one of the leaders of the Wandervogel movement in Austria. As a medical officer he took part in the First World War, experienced the “destruction of substance and life” in Russia and was increasingly confronted with existential questions whose answers he lacked in the natural sciences.

After the end of the war he held leading positions, particularly in the paint industry. After 1926 he took part in various scientific expeditions to India and Egypt . The most important project was the venture in Australia and the South Seas to extract leather from sharks.

His work goes back to the anthroposophical worldview founded by Rudolf Steiner and takes particular account of certain rhythmic processes in nature. His thinking was also strongly influenced by the works of Kervran and Baron Albrecht von Herzeele . Hauschka adopted their scientifically unrecognized theory of cold fusion in living organisms.

Hauschka founded the first WALA laboratory near Ludwigsburg in 1935 and, in 1953, together with other partners, the WALA drug laboratory Dr. R. Hauschka OHG . In 1942 he married in Vienna by anthroposophic physician Margarethe Stavenhagen , who in 1929 in Clinical-therapeutic Institute of Ita Wegman in Arlesheim had met for the first time. During the war he was persecuted as an anthroposophist by the Gestapo, was imprisoned and was finally placed under "police protection" at his place of birth, Vienna. In 1950, in search of a permanent location, he moved to a curative education home in Eckwälden near Bad Boll. Here he was finally able to gain a foothold and drive the steady expansion of the company until his death in 1969.

Works

  • Substance theory. To understand the physics, chemistry and therapeutic effects of substances . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1942; 12. A. 2007, ISBN 3-465-03518-6 .
  • Nutrition. To understand the physiology of digestion and the ponderable and imponderable qualities of nutrients . With an appendix by Dr. med. Grethe Hauschka: Practical diet advice for the healthy and the sick . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1951; 10 A. 1999, ISBN 3-465-03021-4 .
  • Medicines doctrine. A contribution to a contemporary knowledge of remedies . With the participation of Dr. med. Margarethe Hauschka. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1965; 6. A. 2004, ISBN 3-465-03328-0 .
  • Weather lights of a turning point. Life memory of a naturalist . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1966
    • Revised paperback edition: Verlag Natur – Mensch – Medizin, Bad Boll 1997; 2nd edition 2007, ISBN 3-928914-07-3 .

literature

  • WALA Foundation (ed.): Rudolf Hauschka. To mark the return of his 100th birthday on November 6, 1991 . Verlag Natur – Mensch – Medizin, Bad Boll 1991
  • Stephan Baumgartner: Hauschka's weighing experiments. Weight variations of germinating plants in a closed system . Verlag am Goetheanum (Mathematisch-Astronomische Blätter NF 16), Dornach 1992, ISBN 3-7235-0646-1
  • Peter Selg : Rudolf Hauschka at the Clinical-Therapeutic Institute in Arlesheim 1929–1941 . Ita Wegman Institute, Arlesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-905919-21-9

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Hauschka's biography in biographien.kulturimpuls.org accessed on December 24, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hauschka, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist, founder of the company Wala Heilmittel GmbH
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1969
Place of death Boll