Milchwerk Jäger GmbH

Milchwerk Jäger GmbH is the oldest existing private dairy in Germany and can look back on a long company history steeped in tradition. In 1870, Georg Jäger, who had come to the Hague region two years earlier from Heiterwang near Reutte in Tyrol, founded a small cheese dairy. After handing over the business to his son Georg in 1911, the former post office and farm buildings were purchased in 1920 for the constantly growing business and a cheese dairy was built. After several conversions and extensions, the business is still at this location today. Gradually, a butter dairy, storage rooms, whey processing facilities and new cheese dairy buildings and cheese production facilities were added.

After the grandson of the company founder, business graduate and master dairyman Hermann Jäger Sr. took over the company in 1968 and opened up foreign markets (especially Italy), the company began producing mainly Italian cheeses such as Provolone, Mozzarella and Caciotta.

The milk catchment area around Haag also continued to expand and new catchment areas, including in Austria, were added.

In 2001, Hermann Jäger Jr, the great-grandson of the founder, took over the management of the family business and expanded the export activities to other countries, mainly in Eastern Europe.

Today, Haag is home to a state-of-the-art dairy with its own laboratories for chemical and bacteriological testing in accordance with the latest quality standards and the new EU directives, so that we can always offer our customers tested top quality.