Ottomar von Mayenburg

Ottomar von Mayenburg (born 5 December 1865 in Schönheide; died 24 July 1932 in Gut Roseneck at Wörthersee) was a German pharmacist. He invented for German market the toothpaste Clorodont.

Chlorodont advertising, in 1949, newspaper

Life

Mayenburg studied botany and pharmaceuticals at Leipzig University. After finishing his university studies he worked as pharmacist in Dresden. In 1907, he invented in Dresden a toothpaste, which he named Clorodont. He filled his new toothpaste in tubes and sold it to customers. With his new product he became a competitor to toothpaste Kalodont by Carl Sarg and Pebco by Beiersdorf. He was very successful and he found his own company Leowerke to sell Clorodont. In the 1920s at the company Leowerke worked over 1,000 workers. Von Mayenburg lived with his family in the 1920s at castle Eckberg near Dresden.

Film
  • „Die Zahnpasta des Herrn von Mayenburg“. film by Götz Goebel (30 minutes.) for SWR „Patente & Talente“ (29 December 2007)

Literature
  • Rolf Mahlke: Die Zahnpasta des Herrn von Mayenburg, in: 'Die ZahnarztWoche' (DZW) 51-52/2007 pages 18f
gollark: > emotions tell us as much about our environment and circumstance as touch or smell or sightThey really seem more like convenient brain heuristics than some sort of actual sensory input.
gollark: It's "free" because there's no money, but not actually-free as in it can be produced infinitely with no inputs.
gollark: Then the cost there is, what, your labour directly, instead of money.
gollark: Production requires *some inputs*.
gollark: Which would be very cool.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.