27th February 1946
'Permission 69'

NAXOS-UNION

The Naxos Union in Frankfurt am Main was one of the first manufacturers of grinding machines. The owner was the Dr. Arthur Pfungst Foundation. The first locations were the abrasives factory on Wittelsbacherallee in the Ostend district and the machine factory on Wächtersbacher Strasse in Frankfurt-Fechenheim. In particular, the combination of abrasives and grinding machine production made the Naxos Union unique. Its crankshaft grinding machines are still used in many automobile factories today. In the 1980s , the Naxos Union was converted into a stock corporation and sold to the Rothenberger Group in Frankfurt. This also included the Diskus grinding machine factory and the Pittler Maschinenfabrik AG company in Langen.

After the death of Julius Pfungst in 1899, the company was continued jointly by his son Arthur Pfungst and daughter Marie Eleonore Pfungst as well as his widow Rosette. After the death of Arthur Pfungst in 1912, Marie Eleonore Pfungst took over management. In 1918, the factory was converted into the Dr. Arthur Pfungst Foundation. The Naxos-Union abrasives and grinding machine factory recovered quickly after the end of the war and became a global company.

After the Nuremberg Laws came into force in 1935, Marie Eleonore Pfungst handed over the management of the factory and the chairmanship of the foundation to Dr. Rudolf Herbst. She was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942, where she died six months later. From 1942 to 1944, more than 700 citizens of other European countries were forced to do forced labour for the Naxos Union. Their further fate has remained largely unknown.

Source: Wikipedia

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