Kastinger (brand)
Kastinger is a brand for mountain , hiking and leisure shoes.
The company of the same name founded by Hermann Kastinger had a business in Seewalchen am Attersee, Austria , from 1909 to 1981 . After several bankruptcies and Registered Hallows Jump is companies Lemipan based in the German Pirmasens current licensees.
history
In 1909, Hermann Kastinger founded the Kastinger parent company in Seewalchen am Attersee . At the beginning, the company produced women's and men's shoes as well as mountain boots . In 1932, son Max Kastinger took over the business from his father. In addition to double-stitched shoes, glued models were also manufactured for the first time. With the decision in favor of this style , the foundation stone was laid for the inexpensive mass production of street and winter shoes. In 1953 the first successes were also achieved outside of Austria. For his extraordinary successes, Max Kastinger received the Golden Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria.
In 1969, Kastinger introduced the first injection molded ski boot with buckles. A year later the company became a founding member of the Austrian ski pool and in 1972 equipped the alpine downhill skiers at the Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo (Japan) . At that time, Fischer for skis, Tyrolia for ski bindings and Kastinger for ski boots were the world's largest companies in the respective product segment in Austria.
In 1974 Kastinger equipped various athletes . Beginning with the Himalaya-Lohul Expedition, other orders followed, such as the equipment for the Austrian Caucasus Expedition, the Pamir Expedition, Nepal-Himalaya Expedition and the Karakoram Expedition. In the same year, the Liechtenstein ski racer Hanni Wenzel won gold and silver at the Alpine World Championships in St. Moritz with Kastinger products. In addition, the Liechtenstein ski racer Willi Frommelt won bronze - also with Kastinger equipment. In October 1974, Max Kastinger received the Austrian professional title of Kommerzialrat .
In 1976, athletes equipped by Kastinger achieved Olympic successes at the Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck . In addition, various mountain expeditions were equipped with Kastinger products. The Austrian extreme mountaineer Peter Habeler decided to wear only Kastinger climbing shoes this year . The company's expansion also continued: by 1977, Kastinger had manufactured up to 2,400 shoes a day on a work surface of 18,000 square meters.
On May 8, 1978, the extreme mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler succeeded as the first people to climb Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen. Both wore Kastinger shoes. In the same year Messner climbed the Nanga Parbat , and in 1979 also the K2 , single-handedly - also without bottled oxygen and with products from Kastinger. Hanni Wenzel won the 1978 Alpine Ski World Cup in Kastinger Ski Boots. In addition, the alpine teams from the USA , the Czech Republic , Japan , Liechtenstein and Austria were equipped by Kastinger.
In 1995, after several changes of ownership and years of financial bottlenecks, Kastinger was taken over by Erbacher Ski + Sport , a company based in Bad Ditzenbach in Germany , which was renamed Kastinger Sport . The Kastinger brand will remain. In 2009 the Kastinger brand celebrated its 100th anniversary . In 2012 the Kastinger brand was relaunched . Together with the new slogan “Tradition in Motion”, that was a new start for the brand. In 2016, Lemipan from Pirmasens became the new licensee of the Kastinger brand.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c More than 100 years of Kastinger company history kastinger.com. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
- ^ Rudolf Lehmann: Education and Teaching , page 643 limited preview in the Google book search