Swabian celluloid factory

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The Swabian Celluloidwarenfabrik August Haidorfer was a company based in Mengen .

history

The company was founded by August Haidorfer in 1912 to process the new plastic celluloid . The trademark symbol was the letter S for stork.

The Schwäbische Celluloidwarenfabrik initially produced toiletries and toys . In 1923 a large multi-storey manufacturing building was built. The products manufactured by 160 employees found buyers all over Europe and overseas.

From the 1930s on, dolls were produced under the brand name Storch, the designs came from the Berlin modeller Anton Karpf. The first series of dolls with a stiff neck and painted eyes became known as "Helga". The second model "Gabi" already had a rotating head. At the end of the 1930s, the company had over 400 employees, making it the largest employer in the city of Mengen.

As a result of the Second World War, no more products could be exported and production was partially converted to goods that were important for the war effort. After the war, celluloid was in short supply; production was temporarily switched to wooden toys. In the 1950s, the production of celluloid toys was the focus again; the product range was expanded. The company founder August Haidorfer died in 1963. In 1967 the mass production of dolls ceased.

1972 Efka-Continua Kunststoffverarbeitung GmbH took over the Swabian Celluloidwarenfabrik. In 1982 production was stopped. In 1987 the building of the celluloid goods factory was demolished in large quantities. In 1992 the machine house and the chimney were put down.

Today there is an exhibition in abundance to commemorate the company's history. Stork dolls from the Swabian celluloid factory are exhibited in numerous doll museums around the world.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anika Küster: History under the sign of the stork. In: Schwäbische Zeitung. July 9, 2003, accessed August 7, 2014.

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