The company LIGNOSE in Berlin/Germany was a big gunpowder- and ammunition factory before, during and after World War I.
In 1921/22 a workgroup (the Lignose-Aktiengesellschaft) under the leadership of the Lignose gunpowder-factory took over the company Theodor Bergmann in Suhl/Gaggenau, which was sold after the death of Theodor Bergmann.
Together with the factory, Lignose also purchased several patents und continued the production of the last Bergmann vestpocket pistols with the new inscription "Lignose". The pistols therefore were marked with "Akt.Ges.Lignose, Berlin, Abteilung Suhl".
In 1937 Lignose purchased also the Menz company in Suhl and for a short time they put a number of the former Menz pistols with insignations "Theodor Bergmann Erben" on the market.
During the last years of World War II the company disapperared from the market.