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".
Weleda |
companies have factories in Huningue, mainly Swiss firms such as Novartis, Ciba, Clariant, Hoffmann-La Roche, Weleda etc.
When Der Kommende Tag was dissolved in 1924 he became head of the Weleda then established in Schwäbisch Gmünd on the advice of Rudolf Steiner and in collaboration with Mr. Oskar Schmiedel and Fritz Goette.