Focusing on people

Profit is a necessary basis for a company’s development. However, this basis should not become the company’s main objective, but rather remain a means of bringing its ideas to life. This was the firm belief of Rudolf Hauschka, for whom profit was solely a means to an end. The objective of the company was to provide anthroposophic medicines for the people who needed them.

This outlook begged a series of questions regarding the best approach to take for his company.

Who is the owner of the company?

How can the corporate idea be preserved in the long term?

How and to whom is the necessary operating profit distributed?

Is private ownership even compatible with the company’s mission of producing anthroposophic medicines?

Businessman Karl Kossmann and anthroposophic physician Dr. med. Heinz-Hartmut Vogel – the sole partners in WALA at the time – founded the profit-making WALA Foundation in Bad