DR RUDOLF LIEBE

In 1919 Rudolf Liebe took over a small pharmaceutical company in Tetschen (Czechoslovakia) from his father Willibald Liebe. Liebe received his doctorate in 1921 from the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau as a chemist. The company in Tetschen was set up in 1895 as a branch of a company for dietetic and pharmaceutical preparations founded by the pharmacist Johannes Paul Liebe (see also Villa J. Paul Liebe) in Dresden in 1866 and became independent in 1905. Liebe ran the company in which u. a. Cough syrups, ointments and tonics were produced until 1948, when it was expropriated and expelled due to the Beneš decrees.

In 1948, Liebe founded a company in Stuttgart-Möhringen, with which he launched the toothpaste concentrate Ajona Stomaticum in 1952. In 1962, the company relocated to neighboring Leinfelden-Echterdingen. After Liebes death in 1978 it was run by his widow and is operated under the company name Dr. Rudolf Liebe Successor GmbH & Co. KG has been managed by a managing director who does not belong to the family since 2004.