Hans Adalbert Schweigart

Hans Adalbert Schweigart (* July 7, 1900 in Beaver Mountain, † August 2, 1972 in Hannover ) was a German chemist and nutritionist.

After graduating from high school in 1918 in Ulm, he studied chemistry in Berlin and Munich. It was built in 1924 received his doctorate with a thesis about Kartoffelamylase and then worked as a research assistant at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin with Georg Lockemann. He was - after several other pursuits - Acting in the same year director of Reichsmilchauschusses. Three years later he took a position as head of department in the Reich Commissariat for dairy farming.

Schweigart joined the NSDAP in 1931. He was also a member of the National Socialist German Federal lecturers, National Socialist People's Welfare and the SA. In 1935 he was appointed director of the Institute for Dairy Technology at the University of Berlin and habilitated in 1937 with the work of the household diet of the German people. In his nutritional writings he described himself mid-1930s, even as the Nazis and advocated aggressively targets of Nazi food policy.

In 1935 he coined the term vital substances. In his works of the German food situation, he pointed to deficiencies in the supply of vitamins B1 and C, which among other things could be reduced by eating brown rice and whole grain bread.

Schweigart 1942 was appointed director of the Institute for stock maintenance and agricultural trade research at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin. During the Second World War, he observed among the German soldiers of the Afrika Korps that pork in the diet in a hot climate has adverse consequences. Later he discovered the phenomenon of oxygen deficit in cancer affected tissue. After 1945 Schweigart summarized as nutrition expert for authorities Bizonia rapidly regained. Unlike other nutritionists its applications for research funding from the DFG ( German Research Foundation ) were rejected. He was regarded as scientifically questionable; his concept of " vital substances " acts according to yet.

Schweigart founded in 1954, the International Association for Food and Health Products Research (IVG, later renamed the " International Society for vital materials and diseases of civilization "). Under his leadership, the IVG advertise 17 Nobel laureates as members; 1956 was Albert Schweizer, 1958 Linus Pauling Honorary President of the IVG. They thus developed long before the environmental movement to a star-studded organization in the topics of nutrition - health - environment. For the IVG Congress 1972 Schweigart had planned a presentation on the environmental impact of CO2 increase until the year 2200.

He was elected in 1964 as the first president of the international stage of the World Federation for the Protection of Life ( Luxembourg ).

Publications

• The Saalfeld mineral springs, its scientific and medical importance. 1927 O.A.
• The nutritional balance of the German people. German publisher for Politics and Economics, Berlin, 1937.
• The physiological picture of the butter. Carl Verlag 1956.
• Biology of vital substances. Publisher Zauner 1964.