Georg Wander

Georg Wander (11 August 1841 – 14 March 1897) was a German-Swiss chemist and industrialist.

Biography Georg Wander studied chemistry in Gießen, Tübingen and Würzburg. In 1859 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Gießen. In 1861 he joined the Corps Rhenania Tübingen. After receiving his doctorate, he was an assistant at the Institute of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Bern from 1863 to 1865.

In 1865 he became a partner in a mineral water factory (Sommer & Comp) in Bern, which he took over in 1867 and expanded into a chemical-technical and analytical laboratory. He mainly took part in producing tinctures, ointments, pastilles, oils, and refreshing beverages. From this laboratory emerged the later Wander AG, which is known worldwide in particular due to the malt beverage Ovomaltine. His successor as company leader was his son Albert Wander who was already helping in the work at this time. He spoke proudly about the Ovalmaltine product in this quote from 1869. Continuing into the 1890s he kept on making equipment such as spirit lamps and vacuum evaporators with his son. In 1897 he died and a new product hit the shelves, Herbalpina herbal bonbons.