Sigmund Wilhelm Max Scherdel

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Sigmund Wilhelm Max Scherdel (born January 20, 1887 in Schwarzenbach an der Saale ; † February 28, 1960 there ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

Scherdel was born as the second child of the founder of the grain spirit and pressed yeast factory (1885) Georg Artemir Bernhard Scherdel (1854-1924) and his wife Marie Helene Scherdel (1859-1914). After attending elementary school, he went to high school in Hof / Saale. After examining his personal circumstances and his scientific qualifications, the industrial student was granted the right to serve as a one-year volunteer. Scherdel began to study at the Technical University in Munich. For further studies S. went to Danzig to the Kgl. Technical University of Danzig and finished there in September 1914 with the academic degree Dr. Ing. Chemistry as part of his dissertation “Contributions to the knowledge of yeast propagation with special consideration of air yeast production”.

At the time of the First World War, Scherdel took over co-ownership of the steam distillery and pressed yeast factory in Oberkotzau from his father. Scherdel married Edith Sara Peiser (1891–1960) in Schwarzenbach / Saale on August 21, 1914. A total of three children were born from this marriage.

In a scientific work by Scherdel and A. Wohl, registered for patent DRP # 310580 and Weltweit # 145.623, they provided the proof that instead of the absolutely necessary, but in the course of the First World War very scarce and high-priced grain as yeast raw material, molasses with the best Success could be used to make yeast.

Since in July 1914 Scherdel volunteered in Bayreuth in the 6 bayer. Chevauleger Regiment was not accepted due to overcrowding, he reported to Danzig and made steel examinations for the Navy as an assistant at the University of Danzig. From Danzig he applied in February 1915 in writing to the airships in Berlin, who immediately telegraphed him to them, found him fit and drafted into the military on March 4, 1915. After four weeks of training at the airship division II in Reinickendorf and Johannisthal, he was transferred to Darmstadt to learn how to operate Zeppelin airships. Here he became a private and was soon employed as a gas chemist at the military gas station. After being promoted to sergeant, he got the chemical and technical control of this institution. Here gas was obtained through an alternating process of iron and water vapor and through the reduction of the iron oxide formed by water gas.

In mid-1917 he was sent to Brussels to learn about the production of hydrogen from caustic soda and ferrosilicon and was then sent to Turkey in autumn 1917 with a mobile system of this system as the “imperial Ottoman balloon train”. From Constantinople we went to the area of ​​Smyrna to train Turkish teams in balloon service and to train officers and soldiers about gas preparation at this facility. In the late autumn of 1918 Schredel moved on his train via Constantinople, Bucharest, Budapest, Pressburg, Salzburg-Rosenheim to Berlin and was released in December 1918. He was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Iron Crescent.

In January 1920 Scherdel started as deputy managing director of the companies "Spiritus- und Presshefefabrik GmbH" and "Scheibe & Scherdel KG", both in Oberkotzau. From April 1920, after the German Reich patent was granted, Scherdel was the first to produce yeast with molasses as the yeast raw material in the Oberkotzau yeast factory after years of litigation and also the appointment negotiations in April 1923 with the Association of German Pressed Yeast Manufacturers in Berlin.

In 1928 Scherdel founded the Schwarzenbach / Saale - Oberkotzau industry and trade committee with entrepreneurs from Schwarzenbach and Oberkotzau, of which he was chairman from 1928 to 1933 and then again from 1945 to 1959. From 1960 he was its honorary chairman. In December 1930 Scherdel received the "Prince Alfons Memorial Sign on Blue Ribbon" from Alfons Prince of Bavaria.

After the lost Second World War, Scherdel was heavily involved in resuming the feeding of the population and commercial enterprises in the border area for Bavaria and the federal government. Scherdel, who was one of the leading experts in the German yeast industry, was a member of the supervisory board of what was then the Association of the German Yeast Industry after the First World War and, after the Second World War, was heavily involved in an advisory capacity to the Parliamentary Council in Bonn / Bad Godesberg (1947–1949) active. In 1945 Scherdel took over the chairmanship of the Association of South German Yeast Factories, which he had established after the Second World War with its headquarters in Oberkotzau and was a deputy chairman of the Federal Association of the German Yeast Industry. He was also a member of the work council and board member of the working group Spiritus Industrie as well as a representative of the yeast ventilation distilleries in the trade committee of the federal monopoly administration, was a member of the board of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Upper Franconia in Bayreuth and became an honorary member of the Federal Association of the German Yeast Industry.

In February 1957 Sigmund Scherdel was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Sigmund Scherdel died on February 28, 1960 in Schwarzenbach / Saale.