Hans-Adalbert Schweigart

Hans Adalbert Schweigart (July 7, 1900 in Biberberg – December 12, 1972 in Hannover) was a German chemist and researcher in nutrition.

He was director of the Institute for Care and storage of agricultural trade research at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin.

During World War II he observed among the German soldiers of the Africacorps under General Rommel that pork meat in the nutrition in a hot climate caused negative effects.

His scientific masterpiece "The nutrition budget of the German people" (original: Der Ernährungshaushalt des deutschen Volkes) took him into disrepute after 1945 but even later in connection with the refurbishment of the Nazi past, because the preface of the book was written in 1937 stained strongly in favor of the government politically.

Programm and Report of the International Congresses about Vital Substances and Civilization Diseases.