Viktor Pöschl (chemist)

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Viktor Pöschl (born December 4, 1884 in Graz , † December 26, 1948 in Karlsruhe ) was an Austrian chemist and commodity scientist .

After studying at the University of Graz he first taught at the Graz Handelsakademie the tray Uncooked , there followed in 1906 as commodity watchers Karl Hassack (1861-1922) to. In 1912 he was appointed professor of chemistry and goods science at the Mannheim Commercial College , where he was director of the institute for goods science until 1933. After his retirement, he was a lecturer and director of the merchandise department at the Institute for Economics at the University of Frankfurt / Main. From 1939 he took on a teaching position at the economics and social science faculty of the University of Cologne , where Rudolf Seyffert tried to maintain the Austrian school of commodity science.

He is considered to be the founder of teleological knowledge of goods, which sees goods primarily as a means of satisfying needs or claims and accordingly treats them on the basis of usability or use value. He developed a system of consumer goods and world economic goods and developed a rich publication activity in all areas of goods and materials science.

In his forward-looking senior work, Principles of Natural Order in Technology and Economy (1947), he took a position on fundamental questions in the subject of the subject: “Goods are nature designed economically by man and for him with technical means for material and intellectual purposes.” The task of the economy in summary: "It is a matter of preserving the values ​​given by nature as completely as possible and of basing them on the secured properties as long-lasting useful applications as possible" (in "Deutsche Werkstoffe" 1942).

His son is the classical philologist Viktor Pöschl of the same name .

Publications (selection)

  • Experimental investigations on isomorphic silicates . Dissertation, University of Graz, 1907 (handwritten)
  • Introduction to Colloid Chemistry , 1908, 6th edition 1923.
  • General goods knowledge 1912, 2nd edition, 2 volumes, 1924.
  • Fundamentals of scientific drug science and organic raw materials theory, together with a draft of a science of substitutes , 1917.
  • Johann Beckmann, the founder of the collective science of commodities , 1917.
  • Logical explanation of basic product-related terms , 1918.
  • The symbols of the Society for Goods Knowledge , Hamburg, 1918.
  • Introduction to goods, especially chemicals . (= Handels-Hochschul-Bibliothek 17), 1919.
  • Druggist and technical college education , 1920.
  • Color knowledge and the basics of poison theory , 1921.
  • Introduction to the art of photography , 1922, 3rd edition 1931.
  • Material testing in crafts , 1925.
  • Technical microscopy , 1927.
  • Sales school and sales teacher . Criticism and suggestions. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1929, ISBN 978-3-662-31784-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on February 14, 2016]).
  • Principles of natural order in technology and economy , 1947.

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SURNAME Pöschl, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist and commodity scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1948
Place of death Karlsruhe