MELITTA BENTZ
1873–1950
Melitta Bentz invented the coffee filter in 1908 and set up a business to sell it. Now known as the Melitta Group, the company remains a leading coffee brand worldwide.
A German housewife, Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz invented the first coffee filter in her kitchen in Dresden using a brass pot in which she had punched holes and a piece of blotting paper she had ripped out of her son Willy’s school notebook. Acquiring a patent for her invention, Bentz set up her business, M. Bentz, with her husband Hugo and their two sons in Dresden in 1908. The following year, Bentz’s porcelain pour-over ...
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