Unternehmensgeschichte (Company History)
secondary literature · 2026
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SUMMARY
Kneipp GmbH's own corporate history, in German. Fetched via raw HTML (the rendered page did not extract cleanly through the standard fetch tool; retrieved directly with a browser user-agent). States that on 25 February 1891 Kneipp signed a contract transferring to Würzburg pharmacist Leonhard Oberhäußer the exclusive, worldwide, perpetual right to develop, manufacture, and sell pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and dietetic products 'mit dem Namen und dem Bilde des Herrn Pfarrer Sebastian Kneipp' (with the name and image of Father Sebastian Kneipp), and that 'Mit diesem Vertrag legten die beiden den Grundstein für die Marke Kneipp®' (with this contract the two of them laid the foundation stone of the Kneipp® brand). States the first product, pills against intestinal sluggishness, sold through Oberhäußer's Engel-Apotheke in Würzburg, and that on 20 May 1948 a general partnership (OHG) was entered in the Würzburg commercial register, formally separating the Kneipp-Mittel-Zentrale from the pharmacy. Verbatim German strings fetched and confirmed; see grounding log verify-quotes block.
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The company’s own account of its founding: the primary source for the financial-conflict stage’s central fact (Kneipp personally authorized the commercial use of his name and portrait in 1891, six years before his death) and for the modern enterprise’s continuity from that 1891 contract to today.