Our History
Tradition obliges: Aust & Hachmann is one of the world’s most traditional vanilla traders. For more than 140 years, we have been bringing our customers the finest vanilla. Thanks to the high quality of our vanilla products and our company’s unique tradition, we maintain long-standing relationships with customers and suppliers around the world – some of them even spanning generations.
SINCE 1881
More than 140 years of
AUST & HACHMANN
Aust & Hachmann was founded in 1881 by Hermann Aust and Rudolph Hachmann. Since then, we have traded natural vanilla from all growing regions of the world.
A sense of quality
Herbert Hachmann’s approach to quality control in 1955 was not significantly different from today. In the photo, he critically examines a shipment of bundled natural vanilla from Madagascar.
Vintage-style drying
In the early 1950s, vanilla was dried in the sun on the roof of our office building before being ground into powder. The residual moisture content is an important factor for further processing.
Across the wide sea
In the past, vanilla was packed in wooden crates for the long sea voyage from Madagascar to Hamburg. Here you can see vanilla being transferred from coastal boats to an ocean freighter off Madagascar in the 1960s.
Then and now
The company has been family-owned since its founding and is now managed by Berend Hachmann, Elisabeth, and Goran Hachmann in the third and fourth generations, respectively. Since 1991, Aust & Hachmann has also been successful in the North American market through its subsidiary Aust & Hachmann (Canada) Ltd.
Management
Goran Hachmann,
Berend Hachmann &
Elisabeth Hachmann
