Rudolf Hauschka

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Rudolf Hauschka (born 6 November 1891 in Vienna, Austria, died 28 December 1969 in Bad Boll, Germany) was an Austrian chemist, author, inventor, entrepreneur and anthroposophist.

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He was the founder of the company Wala Heilmittel GmbH and Dr. Hauschka. He is the inventor of a "rhythmic" production process that excluded the use of alcohol as a preservative of plant extracts and can preserve the extract for over 30 years. 'Dr. Hauschka' is the brand name given to the range of skin care and cosmetics made by the Wala company from his research.

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Rudolf Hauschka from 1908 studied chemistry and medicine in Vienna and Munich. He graduated with his doctorate in June 1914 and participated in the First World War as a medical officer. After the War he went on several scientific expeditions. His travels took him to Australia, India and Egypt.

He was introduced to Anthroposophy by Karl Schubert  [ de ], a Waldorf educator, and became president of the Wandervogel movement in Austria.

His works take into account rhythmic processes found in nature. Rudolf Steiner influenced him greatly and anthroposophical medicine became his methodological approach to the study of nature, medicine, plants and natural phenomena.

1935 Hauschka founded the first WALA Laboratory near Ludwigsburg and later in 1953 this became WALA- Heilmittel Laboratorium. According to Hauschka himself, one of the most prominent people he met during this period was Otto Ohlendorf, the Nazi war criminal. [1] [2] In 1942 while in Vienna Hauschke married the anthroposophical doctor Margaret Stavenhagen whom he had first met in the Ita Wegman Clinical Therapeutic Institute in Arlesheim in 1929.

R. Hauschka’s weighing experiments were repeated by Stefan Baumgaertner and published in 1992.

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References

  1. Hauschka, Rudolf (2000). At the Dawn of a New Age. ISBN   9780919924253.
  2. Reinsperger, Regina. "Otto Ohlendorf" (PDF). Trans. Klaus Popa. egoisten.de. Retrieved 2013-03-19.