At the end of the Second World War, all Gruschwitz factories were in the Red Army's sphere of influence and were expropriated without compensation as a Soviet joint stock company . The last 4,000 employees became unemployed. With the help of a few old employees, "Franz Alexander Doherr-Gruschwitz" opened a small twisted yarn production facility in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, in 1950 in initially rented rooms.