Eberhard Päßler

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Eberhard Päßler (born June 22, 1918 in Dresden ; † June 5, 1979 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was an important engineer and owner of Eberhard Päßler KG in the early GDR . The company was expropriated in 1972 and became part of VEB Elko Dresden. Some of the devices he designed and produced belong to the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the German Historical Museum because of their technical innovation and their modern and timeless design .

Life

His father, Rudolph Päßler, already worked as a technician. Eberhard Päßler also completed a degree at the Dresden City Engineering School , in the technical school for mechanical engineering, precision engineering and electrical engineering, which he graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1939.

His wife died when his twin daughters Gertrud and Gudrun were born in Lauban (now Poland) in 1943. Päßler hid in Thuringia in 1944 so as not to be used for military service. In 1945, after the end of the war, he moved back to Dresden. Here he built up his company of the same name, Eberhard Päßler KG.

At the same time, after training with the important heroic tenor and chamber singer of the Dresden court opera, Adolf Löltgen , he sang as a tenor at the Dresden State Opera (at that time in the Kurhaus Bühlau, the Dresden Semperoper was bombed out). In 1955, the now very successful entrepreneur acquired the representative villa "Elbhöhe" on the Weißer Hirsch . In 1972 he was expropriated by the state organs of the GDR. In 1978 he moved to Radebeul . He died on June 5, 1979, bitter and impoverished, in the Karl-Marx-Stadt hospital (today Chemnitz ).

Companies

Eberhard Päßler founded Eberhard Päßler KG on November 11, 1945 in a barrack on Williamstrasse in Dresden. From May 1955, the headquarters of the rapidly expanding company was the former " Saxonia mill and bread factory " in Dresden-Mickten on Kötzschenbroder Strasse 9, which Päßler had acquired .

On 1st 1972 the company with around 400 employees was expropriated and converted to the state VEB ELKO. This state-owned company continued to manufacture all LAVA products. Päßler was forced to work for another three months in his former company in order to make the new devices, which he had previously developed, ready for production.

A long and fruitless struggle for patent and trademark rights followed. ELKO, and thus the GDR, paid neither for its patents nor for the LAVA trademark registered on it.

In 1981 the VEB Elko Dresden became an enterprise of the combine Präcitronic Dresden, which in 1987 was subordinated to the VE Kombinat Kosora Dresden. In July 1990 the company was converted into Elko GmbH Dresden in accordance with the Trust Act .

Products

After the war, Päßler started manufacturing simple electrical cooking appliances with two employees from 1945 onwards. The product range was later expanded and Päßler KG mainly produced electrical household appliances such as irons, kettles, stoves and heaters. With the purchase of a few suppliers, the company grew rapidly. From 1965 on there was a sales crisis because these devices no longer met international technical requirements. Päßler was able to master the crisis by developing new devices with a modern design from this time on. These now corresponded to international standards and made the company competitive again.

Päßler produced two product lines:

  • Motec model kit

  • LAVA (T01) single-slice semi-automatic toasting device

  • LAVA view rapid toaster

  • Motec patent certificate for the FRG

Model technology

Motec (model technology) comprised steam engines and steam tractors (for children and teaching purposes), metal construction kits and picture viewers as well as associated pictures and films. This was produced as a small series in the factory.

Under the name EPD (Eberhard Päßler, Dresden; because of the capital letter "D" in the logo often misread DEP) Päßler produced steam engines up to 1963. At least three different models are known: A large steam engine, type D1, with a horizontal boiler (electrically heated) and a horizontal, fixed cylinder (whose design is reminiscent of Bischoff steam engines); a small steam engine, type DoI (?) or Do1 (?), also with a horizontal boiler, spirit burner, horizontal cylinder; as well as a steam engine with an electrically heated standing boiler, steam cylinder in a rectangular casing with a flange-mounted, disengageable dynamo (the design is reminiscent of Märklin generators from the 1930s). All machines are of a very high technical quality.

The LAVA product line sold stoves, hot plates, stoves, kettles, toasters, grills, irons, etc. in large series for the modern household, which were also internationally competitive. In order to ensure high quality, the trays for the cookers VI and VII as well as the toasters T01 and Sirat were originally obtained from Sweden despite the GDR's chronic lack of foreign currency.

Single devices (selection)

  • From 1966, the H10 household scales (up to 10 kg; with an attachment can also be used as baby scales) by the company Eberhard Päßler. In 1971 the annual production was 120,000 pieces.
  • LAVA T01 toaster : developed in 1968; In 1971 the annual production was 80,000 pieces; Production probably until 1987.
    Due to its modern design, the T01 belongs to the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the German Historical Museum .
  • LAVA-Sirat , a modern two-slice toaster (developed in 1969) with infrared tubes, viewing window, crumb tray and with the optional memory function; Production probably until 1988. For reasons of cost, the devices initially manufactured unchanged by VEB soon dispensed with crumb trays and special functions. In order to break away from the import from Sweden, powder-coated sheets were used. As a result, an inferior device that was no longer exportable was produced.
    The original LAVA-Sirat also belongs to the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the German Historical Museum in Berlin.
  • LAVA EK VII single boiler with stepless control.
    The double boiler LAVA DK VII was developed in 1971 and went into production from 1972. It was based on the previous model DK VI and was even flatter and therefore more material-saving. The optical signal display was a patent from Eberhard Päßler. The 120,000 first quality pieces planned for 1972 were completely intended for the western market. Mostly they were supplied with different company signs for retail chains like Karstadt, Neckermann or Bomann. The DK VII is still produced today, partly unchanged, by various companies in Asia, Western and Eastern Europe. Millions of copies have now been made around the world.
  • Kettle Päßler KG, built from 1950
  • LAVA Univerto grill unit UTG1 (infrared grill )

Patents

In the GDR, patents first had to be registered with the GDR's Office for Inventions and Patents . For the western countries, the patent applications were then submitted individually by the entrepreneur through one of the few patent attorneys licensed in the GDR. The special conditions of the individual countries, such as technical requirements, special power supply or the respective industrial standards, had to be observed. The then assigned patent numbers and trademarks of the individual countries were usually adopted and cataloged in the patent registers of the GDR.

Individual patents (selection):

Toaster T01: Patent 75 356 (filing date May 8, 1968). There were also patents for the T01 for other countries such as FRG, CSSR, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

Two-disc toaster Lava Sirat: Patents for GDR, FRG CSSR, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Benelux countries, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, USSR, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Japan ( later withdrawn).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archives Saxony  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv.sachsen.de  
  2. ^ Edition Semperoper Vol 1: The Zero Hour , Edition Günter Hännsler
  3. ↑ Information from the Saxon Main State Archives
  4. ↑ a b c d Norbert Wass (Ed.): Electrical appliances in home and household , VEB Verlag Technik Berlin, 1975, p. 86 ff, p. 94f ff, p. 96 ff, p. 102 ff
  5. ↑ Trademark and patent P1779 490.0 and WZ 785 278
  6. ↑ Patent Office Czechoslovakia 4657-71 PV and PV 1741-69
  7. ↑ Patent Office of VR Poland P-130139
  8. ↑ Patent Office of VR Bulgaria Pt 10 916
  9. ^ Patent office of VR Romania 5636 / S / 59300
  10. ↑ Yugoslav Patent Office P. 2332/68
  11. ^ British Patent Office 1254 122
  12. ↑ Patent Office of the Republic of Austria 3 A 9845/68 (later withdrawn)
  13. ↑ Patent Office for Switzerland and Liechtenstein 478557 [<Simply enter a hyperlink address here> online here]; last accessed on July 22, 2010
  14. ^ Patent Office of the French Republic 1596 661
  15. ↑ Dutch Patent Office 68.14908
  16. ↑ Belgian Patent Office 727266
  17. ↑ AP 81 445, 637 074, 367 572 and 638 232
  18. ↑ Patent Office of the FRG P 19 40 997.3
  19. ↑ Patent Office Czechoslovakia PV 6626-69
  20. ^ Patent Office of VR Poland P 136 291
  21. ↑ No. Patent Office of VR Romania 6439 / S / 61173
  22. ↑ Patent Office of VR Bulgaria 7 560
  23. ↑ Yugoslavian Patent Office P 2367-69
  24. ↑ British Patent Office 960 668
  25. ↑ Patent Office of the Republic of Austria 3A7798 / 69
  26. ↑ Patent Office for Switzerland and Liechtenstein 497 161
  27. ↑ Patent Office of the Benelux countries 521 357
  28. ^ Patent Office of the French Republic 816 253 and 69.08930
  29. ↑ Dutch Patent Office 69.21158
  30. ↑ Belgian Patent Office 727266 122 163 and 737 439
  31. ^ Patent Office of the Hungarian People's Republic PA-1026
  32. ↑ Patent Office of the USSR No. 1367172
  33. ↑ Danish Patent Office 2 135
  34. ↑ Swedish Patent Office 11 788/69
  35. ↑ Japanese Patent Office 55969
personal data
SURNAME Päßler, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, inventor, company owner
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1979
Place of death Chemnitz