Schwermer Dietrich Stiel
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1894 |
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Bad Wörishofen , Germany
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| management | Petra Kneipp |
| Number of employees | 100 |
| Branch | Confectionery |
| Website | www.schwermer.de |
The Schwermer Dietrich stem GmbH is a German confectionery -Unternehmen based in Bad Woerishofen .
history
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In 1894, the confectioner Henry Schwermer, who had previously learned at Café Kranzler in Berlin, founded the company in Königsberg in East Prussia . Soon the coffee house business with confectionery specialized in the production of Königsberg marzipan , pralines and tree cakes . Henry Schwermer received the gold medal for his Baumkuchen creations at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 .
After the founder's death in 1918, his daughter Charlotte Stiel took over the company. When Schwermer had to leave Königsberg after the Second World War, this laid the foundation for a new beginning in Bad Wörishofen . After the premises in the re-established Café Schwermer became too small, the new company was established in 1968 under the management of their son Dietrich Stiel, which was expanded several times to its current size of around 15,000 m².
Today the company employs around one hundred people in production, which is exported to 37 countries. The great-grandson of the company founder, Peter Stiel (1949–2019), was the fourth generation to take over the management of the family business.
At the beginning of 2017, Schwermer was taken over by Heidi Chocolat Suisse . The Swiss company belongs to the Austrian Meinl Group through the Romanian holding company KEX Confectionery AG .
curiosity
The manufacturer's chocolates were delivered to the Mir space station and were on board the space shuttle .
literature
- Harald Saul: Unforgettable cuisine East Prussia: Traditional family recipes and their stories . Bassermann Verlag, 4th edition 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see mourning for the former owner of Schwermer, Augsburger Allgemeine, January 2019 accessed May 11, 2019
- ↑ Niemetz owner Heidi Chocolat buys German confectionery , Die Presse, January 24, 2017