Education
Rudolf Hauschka from 1908 studied chemistry and medicine in Vienna and Munich. He graduated with his doctorate in June 1914.
Rudolf Hauschka from 1908 studied chemistry and medicine in Vienna and Munich. He graduated with his doctorate in June 1914.
"Doctor Hauschka" is the brand name given to the range of skin care and cosmetics made by the Wala company from his research. He 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.
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 WALAHeilmittel Laboratorium.
According to Hauschka himself, one of the most prominent people he met during this period was Otto Ohlendorf, the infamous Nazi war criminal. 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.