Career
Together with Fritz Arndt he discovered the Arndt-Eistert synthesis. Eistert was born in Ohlau (Oława), Prussian Silesia. After he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Breslau in 1927 for his work with Fritz Arndt he worked for the Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik company from 1929 till 1943.
He worked at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1943 till 1957 when he changed to the University of Saarbrücken, where he retired in 1971.