In 1954, several months before his death in Arlesheim, Switzerland the Van Beuningen family was forced to withdraw completely out of the SHV Holdings as there was no replaceable family member to become director.
1921 Dr. Ita Wegman established the Institute of Clinical Medicine in Arlesheim.
Dr. Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, and Dr. Ita Wegman, a Dutch gynecologist, founded in 1920, in Arlesheim, Switzerland the "Futurum AG" and in Stuttgart,Germany, "Der Kommende Tag AG - an incorporated company to encourage economic and spiritual values".