Georg Köhler (company)

Georg Köhler was a manufacturer of toys and metal goods in Nuremberg. The trademark were the intertwined capital letters GKN in a triangle. 

Companies

Pecking rooster

Georg Köhler founded his factory in 1932 in a residential area of ​​Nuremberg and produced animal figures with clockwork, initially a frog and a bird that could peck. Later, more and more species were added, for example a duck, a cat, etc. Each year the range was expanded by up to eight items. The clockworks and friction drives for the toys were supplied by the Bühler brothers (now Bühler Motor ). Georg Köhler died in 1942, after which the entrepreneur Fritz Collischan took over the factory. There was a new upswing for the company after the war in 1948, when enough raw materials were available again and more and more new toy figures could be manufactured. In 1954, toys with plastic parts or made entirely of plastic were added to the range. After Collischan died, his daughter continued the business in 1965 and increasingly switched to plastic parts. 

GKN had to close in 1997 under strong pressure from competition, especially from Ernst Paul Lehmann in Nuremberg. 

source

Historytoy. Company history Köhler. Retrieved March 2, 2017.