Madaus
The Madaus GmbH was a German to herbal medicines specialized pharmaceutical company . Madaus has been part of the Italian pharmaceutical group Rottapharm Madaus since 2007 and, together with it, part of the Swedish MEDA since 2014 .
history
Encouraged by his mother Magdalene Madaus (1857–1925), a naturopath and author on her complex drug system , the doctor Gerhard Madaus (1890–1942) founded in 1919 together with his two brothers Friedemund (1894–1967), a former bank clerk, and Hans ( 1896–1959), a pharmacist, founded the pharmaceutical company in Bonn . After the First World War , the company had to change its headquarters twice. In 1921 the Rhineland was occupied by France, so the seat was moved to Radeburg in Saxony . This was followed by the establishment of branches in Berlin , Amsterdam , Dudweiler / Saar and Metz in 1924/25 , and in Warsaw in 1928 . In 1929 the headquarters were relocated to Radebeul near Dresden for reasons of space , where the company took over the property of the Alfa biscuit factory that had gone bankrupt there (Gartenstrasse 18). A modern industrial building was built at Gartenstrasse 22 around 1938 , the entrance portal of which is decorated with two artificial stone sculptures by the sculptor Burkhart Ebe . Gerhard Madaus died in 1942 as a result of a serious illness.
In 1938 Madaus introduced the herbal immunostimulant echinacin , which is based on the active ingredients of Echinacea purpurea . The biologist Robert Thren , who from 1938 researched medicinal plants and microbiological problems for the Biological Institute of Madaus and who carried out experiments for the production of penicillin during the Second World War , built up the East German penicillin production, the technical facility, after the Second World War the colloid chemist Alfred Kuhn , who had been with the company since 1927 , set up the facility for this. From 1948 on, Thren headed natural product research in the Biological Institute of the VEB Pharmazeutische Werke Madaus .
After the Second World War , which had largely destroyed the branches, the company premises in Radebeul were expropriated and dismantled, but Madaus continued to deliver. The nationalized head office of the drug factory Dr. On April 1, 1951, Madaus & Co was merged with the also expropriated Dresden parent company of Gehe & Co. , which was now called Heilchemie , to form VEB Arzneimittelwerk Dresden .
The brothers Friedemund and Hans Madaus re-founded Madaus after the expropriation in Radebeul in West Germany. The company's head office was initially set up provisionally in Bonn and smaller production sites were set up again in Aichstetten , Wuppertal- Ronsdorf , Geisenheim , Mölln and Karlsruhe . In 1947, the drug factory settled on part of the destroyed former airport in the south of the Cologne suburb of Merheim . In 1952, Madaus founded Neo-Farmaceutica in Portugal, his first foreign subsidiary. Between 1953 and 1959 the founding sons Rolf Madaus, Udo Madaus and John-Werner Madaus joined the company. The company flourished and by 1969 already employed 1200 people. The export to overseas was accelerated. In 1976 a new plant was built in Wasserburg in Bavaria.
In 1989 the group of companies was restructured. All shares in the companies of the Madaus Group were held by the newly founded Madaus Familiengesellschaft GbR, the previous Madaus KG was dissolved. The Dr. Madaus GmbH & Co. was converted into Madaus AG. In 1992, Andreas Madaus, a founding grandson, joined the company. Due to the health reform , sales collapsed; In 1994 there were only 800 employees in the company, in 1999 only 400. Nevertheless, a new production facility was built in Troisdorf- Spich in 1995/96 . In 2001 the company was taken over by Galenika Dr. Hetterich GmbH & Co. KG in Fürth / Bavaria, taken over by HAL Allergy Group in early 2002 .
In 2003 a new laboratory building was set up in Troisdorf, the following year the head office moved to a new building in Cologne-Holweide . From April 2004, Madaus AG was split up internally, and from October 2005 also legally in Madaus Germany and Madaus Holding. Ultimately, this resulted in Madaus GmbH on the one hand and Madaus AG (the holding) on the other.
The management consultant Walter Droege , initially brought into the company as an external consultant for restructuring in 1999 , gradually acquired more and more shares and, through his DIC Deutsche Investor's Capital, last held 91.5% of the shares in the pharmaceutical company, which achieved sales of 350 million euros in 2006. In June 2007 the company was sold to the Italian pharmaceutical group Rottapharm .
In June 2014, the family who owned Rottapharm Madaus announced that they wanted to go public. Initially, 25 percent of the shares should be sold. But then the IPO was surprisingly canceled. Instead, the Swedish pharmaceutical company MEDA bought the entire company for 2.3 billion euros.
literature
- Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
- Madaus. In: Bettina Blessing: Ways of homeopathic drug therapy. Springer-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-11167-9 , pp. 22-24.
Web links
- Website of Rottapharm Madaus GmbH
- Dr. Gerhard Madaus; Doctor and naturalist and the Madaus brothers; Founder and pioneer of the Madaus company in pioneers of oligoplexes
- Ralph Ahrens: Nazis liked natural medicines. Scientist criticizes Cologne drug manufacturer Madaus for its research in the Third Reich ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Textbook of biological remedies , Madaus 1938
- APOTHEKE ADHOC: From near bankruptcy to IPO
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Blessing: Ways Of Homeopathic Drug Therapy. Springer-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-11167-9 , p. 22.
- ↑ Ebes restored figures
- ↑ Ralph Ahrens: Nazis liked natural medicines. Scientist criticizes Cologne drug manufacturer Madaus for its research in the Third Reich. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (12/2001)
- ↑ Wilfried Hüsch, Hartmut Helms: Madaus AG. ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ manager-magazin.de, November 23, 2000
- ↑ Droege sells Madaus pharmaceutical business to Rottapharm Press release Droege International Group AG, June 13, 2007
- ↑ Handelsblatt, June 14, 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rottapharm-Madaus goes public ( memento of the original from July 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rottapharm: IPO canceled ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Meda buys Rottapharm for 2.3 billion euros
