Zahnfabrik - Dr. med dent. Hoddes

As early as 1890, the dentist Dr. med dent. Hoddes with a thesis on total prosthetics. However, 21 years passed before the dental factory was founded in 1911 by the spa town dentist Dr. Josef Hoddes. In 1927, 16 years later, the company moved to the building in Frankfurter Strasse, which had been built in 1906 as a residential building. In 1939, Dr. Hoddes was forced to sell the dental factory below its value in the course of the so-called Aryanization. After 1945, Dr. Hoddes got his company back. Under Hoddes' son-in-law Adolf Schönleber, the Zahnfabrik experienced a new upswing and employed up to 450 people worldwide.