Ohropax’s current factory in the Hessian town of Wehrheim, is not one of Germany’s quietest places, buzzing and whirring as thousands of earplugs roll off the production line each day.
Its products, however, have been mitigating noise for over a century. They, like Ohropax’s home, have changed throughout the 20th Century.
In 1958, as private enterprise was calcified under East German communism, the company moved to Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, under the leadership of Negwer’s son Wolfgang.