Bauerfeind AG

Aktiengesellschaft

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is a German health care

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 company. Its headquarter is in Zeulenroda-Triebes

Zeulenroda-Triebes

Zeulenroda-Triebes is a German town in the district of Greiz in the state of Thuringia.Zeulenroda-Triebes is situated in the south of Greiz in the mountains of the Thuringian Slate Mountains , on the border with Saxonia. The population of Zeulenroda-Triebes in 2006 was about 18000. The largest...

 (Thuringia

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). Bauerfeind AG is not listed on any Stock Exchange

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In Zeulenroda Bruno Bauerfeind founded a special company for manufacturing medical rubber stockings in 1929. Rudolf Bauerfeind, his son, left Zeulenroda in 1949 because of the political situation in East Germany and built up the company in Darmstadt

Darmstadt

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 in western Germany. In 1991 after German reunification

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the company returned to Zeulenroda.

The grandson of the founder and present chairman of the management board, Hans B. Bauerfeind, built up the family-owned company to an international group with more than 1800 staff members and subsidiaries in a number of countries, e.g. in Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and the United States.