[1][2] After a year of military service in the Austro-Hungarian Army, he worked for his former chemistry teacher, Ferdinand Breinl, in Reichenberg.

[1][2] Just before the outbreak of World War I, he became director of the Strahlenforschungsinstitut (radiation research institute) in Hamburg.

During the war, Baudisch served in the Austria-Hungary army in the fields of medicine and epidemic control.

[5] In 1939 Baudisch discovered the copper-catalyzed reaction of phenols and hydroxylamine hydrochloride to give o-nitrosophenols.

[1][2] He had been working on a research project on trace elements in the sea for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla.