Bader (company)

Bader GmbH & Co. KG
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1872
Seat	Goeppingen , Germany
management	Thomas Bader, Bent Dreilich
Number of employees	11,000 (2017)
Branch	Leather manufacturing
Website	www.bader-leather.de

The Bader GmbH & Co. KG , headquartered in Göppingen , Baden-Württemberg is, with more than 11,000 employees, spread over fourteen worldwide production sites , a major manufacturer of leather for the automotive industry .

history

The company was founded in Göppingen in 1872 as the Otto Bader Rosslederfabrik . At the turn of the century, there were 2,700 tanneries and leather factories with 61,000 employees in the Kingdom of Württemberg and in the German Empire as a whole . At the end of the 1950s, the industry had 37,000 employees. At the turn of the third millennium, there were still 40 companies with 20 or more employees in Germany.

The company is now run by the fourth generation of the Bader family. It originally specialized in the manufacture of shoe and furniture leather. Bader is able to produce 55,000 m² of automotive leather every day. At certain automobile manufacturers, such as Audi , every second car comes off the production line with leather seats. Approx. 3 animals are required to process a complete vehicle equipment.

Certification at the Göppingen site

Maserati with leather seats

Awards

Exemplary building Göppingen 2002 - 2008, 2006

literature

Hans Hegenauer: Expertise in leather processing professions. Verlag Ernst Heyer, Essen 2001, 8th edition, ISBN 978-3-920454-23-8
Gerhard E. Moog: The tanner. Handbook for leather production , Ulmer (Eugen), Stuttgart, 2005, ISBN 3-8001-1228-0 .
Helmut Ottiger, Ursula Reeb: Gerben: Leder und Felle , Ulmer (Eugen), 2004, ISBN 3-8001-4651-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Brief information about the company , accessed on May 21, 2019
↑ Every decent tanner was in Reutlingen , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 30, 1997, p. 15, according to the abridged version under LGR - Press Reports ( Memento of October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

[ueber-uns-1] Brief information about the company , accessed on May 21, 2019

[2] Every decent tanner was in Reutlingen , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 30, 1997, p. 15, according to the abridged version under LGR - Press Reports ( Memento of October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )