It was Monday, January 23, 1888, when six lords of the manor from the district of Minden met in the Victoria Hotel on the market square to clear up the disastrous abuses of the dairy industry.

Only 10 months after its foundation, a dairy was opened at Immanuelstraße 3. From then on until 1951 it supplied the citizens of the city with milk and butter on a daily basis. Even in the hardest times.

Thus the chronicle praises: "During the war years, despite low-flying attacks until the occupation of the city by allied troops, we supplied the entire population of Minden, the hospitals and the military hospitals with drinking milk every day!