Heinrich Stoll (entrepreneur)

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Heinrich Stoll (born May 14, 1847 in Salach ; † after 1900) was a German entrepreneur.

In 1873 he and Christian Schmidt took over a “mechanical workshop for the production of knitting machines” in Riedlingen an der Donau. In 1876 the two entrepreneurs parted ways. In 1880 Schmidt relocated the production of knitting machines to Neckarsulm , and this company later became NSU Motorenwerke .

Stoll opened his own company in Reutlingen in 1878 , the Heinrich Stoll knitting machine factory . From this company today's “H. Stoll AG & Co. KG ” , which has subsidiaries in the United States, France, Italy, Japan, China and India and employs around 1000 people worldwide.

In 1891 Heinrich Stoll built the first really usable left-left flat knitting machine , which was presented to the public in 1893 at the world exhibition in Chicago . Stoll received a patent for this technology in 1900.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgart Commercial Register HRA 50360
  2. ↑ The history of the knitting machine on www.ivanic.de ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ivanic.de
  3. ↑ German Hosiery Museum - On the history of knitting machines ( Memento of the original of February 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsches-strumpfmuseum.de
  4. ^ Lexicon of knitting and knitting

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personal data
SURNAME Stoll, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Salach
DATE OF DEATH after 1900