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4 unusual facts about Wilhelm Pelikan


Wilhelm Pelikan

Biodynamic gardener Franz Lippert, Wilhelm Pelikan started to develop a medicinal herb garden on the firm's grounds and later in Wetzgau a plateau above Schwäbisch Gmünd.

1919 Dr. Eugen Kolisko asked him to come and work at the Der Kommende Tag research institute in Stuttgart.

Extremely fruitful collaboration with pharmacists Wilhelm Spiess, Walther Cloos and Hans Krueger with flow scientist Theodor Schwenk and many physicians among them Eugen Kolisko, Gottfried and Gisbert Husemann, Walther Buehler, Otto Wolff, Rudolf Treichler, Eberhard Schickler, Kurt Magerstaedt, Paul Paede, Norbert Glas, made it possible to bring Rudolf Steiner's suggestions to realization and so develop a range of anthroposophical medicines.

When Der Kommende Tag was dissolved in 1924 he became head of the Weleda then established in Schwäbisch Gmünd on the advice of Rudolf Steiner and in collaboration with Mr. Oskar Schmiedel and Fritz Goette.



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