Rudolf Heiss

Rudolf Heiss (born September 27, 1903 in Straubing ; † September 13, 2009 in Saarbrücken ) was a German engineer, pioneer in food technology and the science of food packaging.

Life

Heiss was the founding director of the Reich Institute for Fresh Food in Karlsruhe, established in 1936 , from which today's Federal Research Institute for Nutrition and Food emerged . The institute's research was directly related to the four-year plan of the Nazi regime and the questions of preservation, storage and packaging of food related to the Wehrmacht catering. The Munich Institute for Food Technology, founded in 1942 (research center of the Wehrmacht in connection with the food and packaging industry) , which later became the Institute for Food Technology and Packaging , today the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV) in Freising , was until its own research facilities were set up on the cooperation with the local Nazi health institutions and the Munich Reichskochschule der Wehrmacht.

After the Second World War, the bombed institute was rebuilt. Heiss created a new financial basis with an industrial sponsoring association, later transferred the institute to the Fraunhofer Society and headed it until 1975. As a university lecturer at what was then the Technical University of Munich , he paved the way for teaching food and packaging technologies to the Germans Universities. He always pleaded for cooperation between various natural and engineering disciplines. In 1960 he founded the IAPRI, the "International Association of Packaging Research Institutes".

In addition to standard works on food technology, Heiss published "Preservation of Food" and "Food Technology" in 1934, as well as "The Engineer's Mission in the New State", which propagated the complete self-mobilization of engineers for the new state .

Honors

Rudolf Heiss received a. a. the

• Bavarian merit medal in silver
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1969)
• Joseph König commemorative coin of the Association of German Chemists
• Bavarian Order of Merit (1973)
• Presidents Award of the European Packaging Federation
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (1975)
• Fellow Institute of Food Technologists (USA 1982)
• Johannes Hoffmann Prize (1984)
• Certificate of Honor from the Technical Faculty of Novi Sad University (Yugoslavia)
• Nicolas Appert Award of the American Institute of Food Technologists 1997 and the
• International European Award for Packaging 2005

He was an honorary member

• the Fraunhofer Society ,
• of the Association of Austrian Food and Fermentation Technologists
• the Pioneers in Food Science
• Honorary President of the International Association of Packaging Research Institutes
• Former President of the Industry Association for Food Technology and Packaging (IVLV)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Heiss: The mission of the engineer in the new state. Berlin 1934.
2. ^ Gerd Hortleder: The engineer's image of society. On the political behavior of technical intelligence in Germany. Frankfurt a. M. 1970, pp. 125f.