Karl Märklin

Karl Märklin (* 1866 ; † 1930 ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

In 1888 Karl Märklin and his brother Eugen took over the small business for the manufacture of doll kitchen equipment, which was founded by his father, Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm (1817–1866) in 1859 and since his death in 1866 by his mother, Caroline Hettich (1826–1893) and toy stoves and founded the open trading company Gebrüder Märklin .

In addition to toys, they initially produced household goods, acquired a factory for technical tin toys in Ellwangen in 1891 and in the same year brought an expandable system of a clockwork train with standardized rails onto the market. They introduced toy steam engines in 1895, electric toy trains in 1897, and a smaller gauge the following year. Sample warehouses and sales outlets were set up in London , Paris , Amsterdam , Milan and Moscow .

In 1911 the Märklin brothers had a new company building built and in 1920 converted the company into a GmbH. In 1914 they added metal construction kits to their range, introduced the 20-volt system in 1926 and increasingly oriented the model railways on the model of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Eugen Märklin's son Fritz has been running the company since 1935 .

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