The Eibia was founded as a subsidiary of Wolff & Co. in Bomlitz, but was responsible to the Reich Ministry of Defense. The managing legal successor today is IVG Immobilien in Bonn.
The purpose of the Eibia was the (apparently pure) private enterprise of armament factories, which had been previously built on behalf of the Army High Command (OKH) by the company Wolff & Co. as a builder. The OKH then handed the plant over to the company acquired by the Army Weapons Agency Verwertungsgesellschaft für Montanindustrie GmbH (Montan G.m.b.H.) in Munich, which then leased it to the Eibia for 30-50% of the profits from the powder production. This legal construction, called Montan scheme or armor quadrilateral, served to camouflage the state intervention, but also kept the respective plant builders, in this case, the Wolff & Co., from the subsequent operation out.
At that time, Wolff & Co. had almost a hundred and twenty years of experience in powder manufacturing and made a name for itself in the manufacture of military explosives during the First World War. Their technical status was therefore known to the Reich Ministry of Defense. The High Command of the Army approached soon after the "seizure of power" of the National Socialists to the company to agree to a re-manufacturing for the military. After a successful elaborate trial phase, on 26 October 1938 the Eibia G.m.b.H. founded. Initially, it was organizationally dependent on the parent company, but then quickly outstripped it in size and production volume. The name refers to the yew, which is said to have significance in weapon production among the Teutons. [2]
The Eibia was at the end of the war operating company of three major production facilities; on the one hand at Bomlitz (cover name: plant Walo II [3]), on the other at the Mittelweser near Dörverden (plant Weser) and Liebenau (plant Karl). In addition, Wolff & Co. had previously built two small businesses (Waldhof and Walo I facilities) at its headquarters in Bomlitz in the experimental phase that preceded the founding of Eibia since June 1935 on behalf of the OKH. The Eibia took over these smaller companies with their founding. A section of the plant Walo II was also north of Bomlitz (Löverschen). Source Wikipedia