Old drawings made a new start possible

The time shortly before and particularly during World War II was traumatic, as it had been for many manufacturing companies in Germany. The company in the form that Waldemar founded it no longer existed. The LINDEMANN factory found itself being misused for the production of munitions. It was closed by the Allies at the beginning of 1946. It was initially supposed to be dismantled, a decision that was abandoned. Instead, all construction drawings were confiscated.

Thankfully, Waldemar's brother Kurt Lindemann's company in Cologne still had drawings that made a new start possible. They founded the Gesellschaft zur Konstruktion Bau Hydraulischer Pressenanlage Lindemann mbH between 1947 and 1948, which was renamed Lindemann Pressenbau GmbH Köln in 1949.