Piegler brothers

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Metal goods factory for hairdressing supplies in Nuremberg , Lange Gasse 15, which existed from 1948 to 1976. The owners, the brothers Kurt (1900–1969) and Theodor Piegler (1904–1991) built it up in 1948 after dismantling and expropriating their historic metal goods factory in Schleiz (then Soviet zone of occupation ). A piece of European hairdressing history is reflected in the company's history.

Theodor Piegler (1976)
Kurt Piegler (1959)

prehistory

In 1819 Heinrich Gottfried Piegler (1797–1849) in Schleiz / Thür. founded a company that has made a name for itself through the large-scale production of Döbereiner lighters and their worldwide marketing. After his death, three of his sons continued the company.

After JW Döbereiner's pupil, the chemist R. Böttger, invented the safety matches in 1848, they soon supplanted the aristocratic table lighters. A grandson of HG Piegler, Richard Piegler jun. (1865–1916) switched production to hairdressing supplies with the advent of fashion hairdressers at the end of the 19th century. Domestic and international business went very well and he managed to outstrip the French industry, which was dominant in these articles at the time. In 1903, R. Piegler was recognized by the State Association of Saxon Hairdressing Guilds for his outstanding achievements. His death in 1916 and the raging First World War hit the factory hard. In 1918 his son Kurt Piegler, who had completed a commercial apprenticeship, joined the company and led it to a new boom in the economically difficult post-war years. The number of employees rose from 10 to 50 and warehouses were set up in London and Rotterdam. Since the production rooms at Markt 1 in Schleiz were no longer sufficient, the building was rebuilt. The move took place in 1926. In 1927, Kurt Piegler's younger brother, Theodor, joined the company as technical manager after completing his engineering training. The first company in Europe to produce hairdressing supplies in a chrome finish. Business was so flourishing that the new building had to be expanded several times with additions. The number of employees rose to 80. The brothers also mastered the difficult times from 1933 onwards.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the machinery was dismantled and transported to the Soviet Union, as well as the humiliating process of expropriating the two company owners. Fearing for their lives, they fled to the American occupation zone on August 28, 1948.

History of the company in Nuremberg

Theodor Piegler with the company range at the Euro Friwa sample show in Würzburg (1970)

After a short stay in the refugee camp in Moschendorf bei Hof, the brothers succeeded in gaining a foothold in Nuremberg. To enable them to resume their work, the city of Nuremberg allocated them rooms in the north block of a former latrine building on the former Nazi party rally grounds on Luitpoldhain, where they began producing hairdressing supplies again under the most primitive conditions. Their business connections abroad from the pre-war period were of great help to them. The OHG was entered in the town's commercial register as “Metallwarenfabrik Gebr. Piegler” on December 1, 1948. The two brothers, who were over 40 years old, succeeded in making a new start, with export business again playing a major role. In 1954 the company moved to newly built production facilities near the castle (Lange Gasse 15). The creativity of the brothers is borne out by the fact that in 1955 they patented an innovative one-hand atomizer with a blower ball. The range of goods included almost everything that a hairdressing salon needed at that time: hairdresser's figureheads, display basins, bowls, razor cups, foam cans, powder cans, cotton wool dispensers, glass sets, disinfection containers, head wash bottles, hairdressing lamps, thinning heads, various atomizers for liquids and powder, oil bottles as well as , Hair wash basin, etc. Every year the company was represented at the Euro Friwa sample show in the Huttensaal in Würzburg. Kurt Piegler died in 1969, two years later his wife, Ruth Piegler, became a partner. In 1976 the last surviving owner, Theodor Piegler, 72-y. dissolved the company that was recently exposed to increasing competitive pressure from propellant aerosol cans and plastic products.

Web links

Commons : Gebr. Piegler  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ KJ Arnold: Dismantling in the Soviet Occupation Zone and Berlin 1945 to 1948. Ed .: Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv - Center for Contemporary History Research. Potsdam 2007, p. 203 and 413 ( nonstopsystems.com [PDF]).
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  4. ^ Museum in the Rutheneum Schleiz (ed.): The Schleizer Duden 2022 - "The Letter P": 200 years of the Gottfried Piegler family in Schleiz (Internet publication) . Schleiz 2020 ( rutheneum-schleiz.de ).
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  9. ↑ F. Gnegel: Feuerzeugs - companion book for the traveling exhibition of the same name of the Westphalian Museum Office . Ed .: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Westphalian Museum Office. Münster 1994, p. 73-75 .
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  11. ↑ Hairdressers' sundries: Gebr. Piegler, Nuremberg . In: Kelly's Directories Ltd. (Ed.): Kelly's Directory of Manufacturers and Merchants 1965-66 . tape 2 . Kingston upon Thames 1967, p. 2757 .
  12. ↑ Espacenet (Ed.): Patent Fa. Gebr. Piegler: One-hand atomizer with blower ball (1955) . February 24, 1955 ( espacenet.com ).
  13. ↑ Museums Nord (Ed.): Some products from the metal goods factory Gebr. Piegler . ( museen-nord.de ).
  14. ↑ Europeana (Ed.): Oil bottle from Gebr. Piegler. Location: Mr. Zopf's hairdressing museum in Neu-Ulm. ( europeana.eu ).