Noble marzipan from from the Ohde Berlin manufactory

When you think of marzipan in Germany, you don’t think of Berlin. In fact, Berlin-Neukölln is one of the two largest production sites for raw marzipan in the world! Berlin could even be called the world capital of marzipan and has been for over 160 years. The fact that marzipan from Berlin has an ever-growing fan base is not least due to Hamid Djadda, who founded the “sweet start-up” Ohde in Neukölln in 2017. The entrepreneur came to Germany from Persia, the motherland of marzipan, at the age of four, grew up in Hamburg, studied in the USA, founded several successful companies, including a crystal glass company, which he ran in Thailand, where he also lived for 20 years. Today he is a Berliner by choice and would like to make the fine marzipan from Berlin-Neukölln world-famous with Ohde. It seems to be karma that marzipan was invented in Persia of all places in the 8th century.