Preface

Gnther Enderlein (1872-1968) was bom into a family of teachers in Leipzig. After earning his.oh school diploma, he studied in the natural sciences at the university, specializing in zoology. He

graduated summa cum laude.He became curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. He wrote over 500 scientific papers as a

zoologist.Enderlein founded his own microbiological institute in Berlin, where he developed new types of

preparations from molds. He later became production manager at the Sanum firm (Berlin/Hamburg).After the facilities were moved to Aumhle in the vicinity of Hamburg, he devoted himself totally tosetting up his own enterprise, "Ibica".

Enderlein died in 1968, and the firm was able to continue on only a few years under the leadershipof his widow, Sigrid Enderlein. When the production facilities were taken over by Sanum-Kehlbeckin Hoya, the preparations program was improved and expanded based on the latest scientific findings.

The most important areas of activity at the Ibica Institute had to do with Pleomorphism andsymbiosis, building on the research of Antoine Bechamp. The fate of this researcher closely resemblesthat of Enderlein: he toa had to struggle against prejudice and error.

In his best-known work, on the "microzymes", Bechamp declared that all animal and plant celiscontained minuscule granules (Granulations molculaires) that did not die when the organism died,but rather lived on. He said they were the source of fermentation, and that microorganisms could arisefrom them as weli (cited from Dunbar).

This brief statement formed the basis for Pleomorphism - the direction in which future researchshould have moved. However, Pasteur's influence was able to establish the view that microbes could beclassified into fixed and unchangeable species and genera. Each species was said to cause a specificdisease.

Bechamp's findings were sacrificed to Pasteur's error. Bechamp was the first scientist to describe atleast the beginnings ofbacterial Cyclogeny (kyklos = circle, cycle; genos = birth, origin). Not blindedby autherity, nor corrupted by greed for profits, and immune to falsification of reality, he was able tointerpret natural phenomena correct1y - to which may weli be added what Enderlein called a "dash ofintuition". This would correspond roughly to the concept of"premonition".

Contemporary science is little blessed with this auxiliary "sense organ". "Premonition" presupposesfeengs and emotions that are missing or could be present in many areas. Many are barred foreverfrom the understanding of certain kinds of elementary knowledge. W oe unto us, should science evercome to be dominated by one-dimensionallogic-choppers! The consequences would be cover-ups andpersecution of anything that feli outside of conventional understanding.

(Galileo: "I believe that there is no greater hate in the world than that ofignorance toward knowl-edge.")

In 1916, Enderlein discovered something upon which many changes in this world dependo Whiledoing work on typhus, he observed, under a darkfield microscope, minuscule mobile ving organismsin the blood, that merged with rugher-Ievel bacteria. The products of this copulation disappearedfrom view in a flash. Enderlein suspected he was observing sexual processes here, in which lower -rather than higher (as in embryonal developrnent) - forms arose, invisible to the eye in a light micro-scope. These flageliated, highly mobile elements were named "Spermit".

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