Central Institute for Nutrition
The Central Institute for Nutrition was a non-university research institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) based in Bergholz-Rehbrücke , whose task was research in the field of nutritional sciences . It emerged in 1969/1970 from the Institute for Nutrition, which had existed since 1957 and was founded by merging the Institute for Nutritional Research with the Institute for Vitamin Research. The German Institute for Nutritional Research emerged from the institute in 1992 .
history
Organizational development
The Central Institute for Nutrition was created in 1969/1970 from the Institute for Nutrition, which was founded on July 1, 1957 through the merger of the Institute for Nutritional Research with the Institute for Vitamin Research and, since its establishment, became the Research Association of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) belonged to.
The Institute for Nutrition Research went back from its predecessor to the Institute for Nutrition created on June 10, 1946 by order of the Soviet Military Administration in Brandenburg , which was initially assigned to the German Central Administration for Trade and Supply. Four years later, this facility was renamed the Institute for Nutrition and Catering Science and the area of responsibility of the GDR Ministry for Trade and Supply; from 1953 it was called the Institute for Nutrition Research and was subordinate to the Ministry for the Food Industry.
The Institute for Vitamin Research was the successor to the Reich Institute for Vitamin Testing and Vitamin Research , which had existed in Leipzig from 1941 and was moved to Bergholz-Rehbrücke near Potsdam in 1948 .
Tasks and activities
The Central Institute for Nutrition was devoted to various aspects of nutritional research and was part of the Research Center for Molecular Biology and Medicine , the network of bioscientific and medically oriented institutes of the Academy. In the summer of 1990 it had around 525 employees. Among the publications issued by the Institute, the Institute reports included in the Series nutrition research and the scientific journal Food .
Directors
From 1946 Wilhelm Ziegelmayer acted as the founding director of the Institute for Nutrition . After his death, Carl Arthur Scheunert , who had headed the Reich Institute for Vitamin Testing and Vitamin Research after it was founded and had initially become a professor at the University of Gießen after the end of the Second World War , took over the management of the Institute for Nutrition and Catering Science in 1951 and from October of the same Year in personal union also the management of the institute for vitamin research. Kurt Täufel headed the institute from 1957 to 1962 , followed temporarily by Heinrich Baumgärtner, head of the microbiological department in 1962/1963, before Helmut Haenel was director from 1964 to 1981 . His successor Horst Schmandke acted until the political change in the German Democratic Republic . From 1990 until the dissolution of the institute at the end of 1991, Helmut Haenel took over the management of the institute again.
Successor organization
1992 as a successor to the Central Institute of Nutrition was the the Leibniz Association belong German Institute of Human Nutrition .
literature
- Rüdiger vom Bruch , Uta Gerhardt, Aleksandra Pawliczek: Continuities and discontinuities in the history of science in the 20th century. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-51-508965-9 , p. 237.
- Rosemarie Posselt: Overview of the holdings of the Brandenburg State Main Archives, parts 2−3. Series: Publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archive Potsdam. Volume 50.Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-83-050959-6 , p. 156.
- Hans-Georg Wolf: Organizational fate in the German unification process. The development paths of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Series: Writings of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne. Volume 27. Campus, Frankfurt am Main, New York 1996, ISBN 3-593-35523-X , p. 17.
- 25 years of the “Central Institute for Nutrition” in Potsdam-Rehbrücke. Series: Nutritional Research. Volume 16. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1971.