Engelhard Medicines
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | October 31, 1872 |
| Seat | Niederdorfelden , Germany |
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| Number of employees | approx. 460 (as of 11/2019) |
| sales | around 120 million euros (2018) |
| Branch | pharmacy |
| Website | www.engelhard.de |
Engelhard Arzneimittel is an international, research-based pharmaceutical company and brand manufacturer of OTC pharmaceuticals . Established in 1872 from the Rosen Pharmacy in Frankfurt am Main and long based in the north end of Frankfurt , the company has been based in Niederdorfelden in the Main-Kinzig district since 2000 . The company's main products include Prospan, Isla, Tyrosur, Muxan and Esprico.
history
construction
Iceland moss pasta , for which the first order was recorded in 1868, was one of the first finished medicines for coughs and sore throats by the pharmacist Karl Philipp Engelhard , a student of Justus von Liebig , in his father Georg Heinrich Engelhard founded roses Pharmacy developed in Frankfurt am Main. Three decades later, in the 1890s, Engelhard developed the child and skin care product Dialon Powder , a preparation that - similar to the Frankfurt pills that were also manufactured and sold in the Rosen pharmacy- found large sales.
On October 31, 1872 the pharmacist Engelhard founded the factory for pharmaceutical preparations Karl Engelhard . He soon began as one of the first German entrepreneurs to machine tablets on tablet presses, some of which he developed himself. Since the space at the original location of the Rosen Pharmacy Am Salzhaus 3 between Roßmarkt and Großem Hirschgraben soon became too narrow, the foundation stone for a new factory was laid on the Sandweg on November 28, 1891 . On February 6, 1894, Karl Engelhard applied for permission to continue his business in the new buildings.
His preparations became popular through advertising campaigns. In his novel Mathilde Möhring, which was published posthumously in 1906, the poet and pharmacist Theodor Fontane had the mayor, who had a bad cold, take a box of Icelandic moss pastilles to ice-skating.
In 1901, Karl Engelhard sold the rose pharmacy and now devoted himself entirely to the drug factory. Two of his three sons and their eldest sister Resi, Paul and Max Engelhard , entered the factory with new ideas. With the rise of inflation, the company founder Karl Engelhard retired into private life and left the company to his sons. Their sons, Max and Karl Engelhard, joined the company management in 1939.
Second World War and Reconstruction
After large parts of the factory in Sandweg had been damaged by an air raid on Frankfurt am Main on October 4, 1943 , another bomb attack in January 1944 led to the destruction of 70 to 75 percent of the building. However, production could be continued in alternative plants in Lorsbach and Sprendlingen.
Immediately after the Second World War , the reconstruction of the factory on Sandweg began and a new building was built on the foundations of the old factory for the company's 75th anniversary.
Development until today
With the addition of new preparations, the company soon grew beyond the pre-war level. In 1950 the cough suppressant Prospan was introduced, which is based on an ivy leaf dry extract ; In 1959 the wound healing agent Tyrosur and in 1979 the throat lozenge Trachisan came onto the market.
In 1997 a new production facility was put into operation in Niederdorfelden . In 2000 the entire company moved there. Today the company is led by Oliver Karl Engelhard, Richard Mark Engelhard and Rolf Engelhard. The family company, which is still independent today, currently employs around 400 people.
Therapeutic areas
Engelhard Arzneimittel researches, develops and produces medicines against respiratory and skin diseases, attention disorders and digestive problems, among other things. The company offers herbal and chemically defined drugs and products from the fields of cosmetics and supplementary balanced diets.
Engelhard abroad
The pharmaceutical manufacturer is represented with its products in more than 100 countries worldwide. The most important export markets are mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.
Memberships
The company is a member of the following associations:
- Employers' Association of Chemicals and Related Industries for the State of Hessen eV
- Federal Association of Drug Manufacturers eV
- Federal Association of Pediatricians and Adolescents
- Federal Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry eV
- Federal Association of Pharm.-techn. Assistants eV
- Citizens' Initiative Health DGVP eV
- German Society for Pharmaceutical Medicine eV
- German Pharmaceutical Society eV
- Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research eV
- Society for Phytotherapy eV
- Committee for Research in Natural Medicine eV
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Schwedt, Liebig and his students: The new school of chemistry , Berlin 2002; 217-231.
- ↑ List of advertising costs for Dialon advertising, 1936, in: EA archive.
- ↑ Dieter Rebentisch, Frankfurt am Main in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich 1918–1945 , in: Historical Commission of the City of Frankfurt (ed.): Frankfurt am Main. The history of the city in nine articles (publications by the Frankfurt Historical Commission XVII), Sigmaringen 1991, 423–519, here 513.
- ↑ Armaments Inspectorate XIIa of the Reich Minister for Armaments a. War production at Engelhard, September 30, 1943, in: EA archive.
- ↑ Engelhard to damage public office IV, Frankfurt am Main, April 9, 1946 in EA archive.
- ↑ H. Geitzhaus, manuscript for Engelhard Festschrift, 1972, in: EA archive.
- ↑ Engelhard Arzneimittel: Data & Facts