History

Word soon spread about the exceptional quality of WALA medicines. As a result, the company moved to larger premises in Dresden in 1938, five years after it was formed. In 1941, the Nazi regime brought the up-and-coming company to a temporary halt by imposing a ban on anthroposophy. When Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess (1894 -1987) fled to England, suspicions of a revolutionary conspiracy between Hess and the anthroposophic community prompted numerous arrests. On 9 June 1941, the Gestapo arrested, among others, Dr. Rudolf Hauschka and Dr. Margarethe Stavenhagen (1896 -1980), who were at the time jointly responsible for running the Kuranstalt Gnadenwald sanatorium in Austria, a branch of the anthroposophic clinic in Arlesheim.

Furthermore, WALA was declared illegal. In 1946, after the Second World War, Hauschka recommenced manufacturing WALA medicines in a temporarily converted military barracks on the grounds of the Biological Homeopathic Hospital in Munich, where he supplied the hospital with homeopathic products.

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