Martina Gebhardt

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Martina Gebhardt (* 1959 in Munich ) is a German natural cosmetics entrepreneur and architect. She has been the owner of Wessobrunn Monastery since 2014 .

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Martina Gebhardt claims to have been working with medicinal herbs since she was 17 years old. She began experimenting with and selling plant-based creams that she made herself. With this she financed her architecture studies at the Munich University of Applied Sciences , which she graduated with a diploma in 1986. In October of the same year she founded her company Martina-Gebhardt-Naturkosmetik as a GmbH in Issing in the Landsberg am Lech district . She supplied the products to health food stores . At the same time she ran her own architectural office. She received several awards from the Landsberg District Office for the renovation of historical buildings and the planning of a commercial building in Utting am Ammersee . Since 1992, the company has been located in a former tithe courtyard of the Wessobrunn monastery in Pessenhausen near Rott (Landsberg am Lech district) with over 1,000 square meters of office and production space, which was converted according to your plans to meet the requirements of listed buildings.

Gebhardts cosmetics are based on herbal extracts, fatty oils and essential oils . She does not use surfactants and emulsifiers , nor does it use isolated plant-based and ready-made active ingredients. All fully declared ingredients without animal testing are mixed ourselves. According to their own statements, their recipes come from historical records from monasteries and traditional medicinal plant knowledge. In 2010, its range was the first cosmetics company in the world to be Demeter certified. Gebhardt produces around 140 products with around 35 employees. Your company has an annual turnover of five million euros.

In order to be able to expand her production, she bought the Wessobrunn Monastery in 2014 with 10,000 square meters of usable space and 48,000 square meters of land. The parties agreed not to disclose the price. She had it renovated according to her own plans with the support of the State Office for Monument Preservation . Their sales department has been located there since 2014. Rooms for the ointment factory had to be prepared in accordance with guidelines for the manufacture of cosmetics. Manufacturing is scheduled to move in in 2019. Your usage concept also includes other workshops and cultural events. Medicinal herbs for Gebhardt cosmetics are grown on one hectare of the monastery garden area. According to Die Zeit, Gebhardt sees himself not only “in the tradition of monastic drug and ointment production”, but “wants to keep the listed ensemble with the magnificent stucco decorations of the Wessobrunn school accessible to the public”.

Gebhardt commutes between her places of residence in Germany and the USA. She has lived on a farm in the Utah desert since the 1990s , where she extracted plant essences for her cosmetic formulas; In 2004 she moved to New Mexico . In Ranchos de Taos she bought a 230 year old mud house of the Anasazi , which in the 19th century became a legendary dance hall and center of community life as Old Martinez Hall . The building opposite the San Francisco de Asis Church was about to collapse. Gebhardt restored it and turned it into a restaurant and event location with massive adobe walls . It opened in 2012 and is called Old Martina's Hall after her .

Martina Gebhardt has a son (* 1995).

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  1. ↑ a b c swr.de: Martina Gebhardt: Entrepreneur and Heilkundlerin , August 31, 2016
  2. ^ Inge Ahrens: Entrepreneurs: The beauty queens. Martina Gebhardt , Brigitte.de 2018 ,
  3. ↑ klosterwessobrunn.de: Martina Gebhardt as a person
  4. ↑ The Alchemist , Öko-Test , Cosmetics Guide 13/2013
  5. ↑ a b A beauty entrepreneur goes to the monastery , interview by Susanne Dembsky with Martina Gebhardt , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . online May 13, 2018
  6. ↑ a b demeter.de: The root seeker
  7. ↑ a b c Sarah Kanning: Shrine becomes cosmetics factory , sueddeutsche.de, July 4, 2014
  8. ↑ ardmediathek.de: A chance for Wessobrunn? Bayerischer Rundfunk, October 31, 2015
  9. ↑ Georg Etscheit: Would you like a monastery? DIE ZEIT No. 36/2015, September 3, 2015
  10. ^ Matthew van Buren: New life for Old Martínez Hall in Ranchos de Taos , The Taos News, July 9, 2010
  11. ↑ Mike Butler: High Road to Taos , Arcadia Publishing, New Mexico 2016, ISBN 9781467116053 ( view )
  12. ↑ cosmia.de: The inspiration comes from the desert
personal data
SURNAME Gebhardt, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural cosmetics entrepreneur and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich