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BE-HA Quality Germany, [2] later renamed Teddy-Hermann, was founded in 1912 in Sonneberg, Germany, [3] by Bernhard Hermann, who had previously spent several years working with his father Johann in the family business of crafting children's violins and later toys. [4]
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A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear.Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the U.S. and Richard Steiff under his aunt Margarete Steiff's company in Germany in the early 20th century, the teddy bear, named after President Theodore Roosevelt, became a popular children's toy and has been celebrated in story, song, and film.
Steiff was founded in 1880 by Margarete Steiff, a seamstress. [2] [3] She began making fabric elephants that were sold in her shop as pincushions.[3] [4] [5] However, children began playing with them, and in the years following she went on to design many other animal-themed toys for children, such as monkeys, donkeys, horses, camels, pigs, mice, dogs, cats, rabbits, and giraffes.
Richard Steiff (7 February 1877 – 30 March 1939) [1] was a German designer, known for creating one of the first teddy bears.In 1897, he joined Steiff, a stuffed toy company founded in his hometown Giengen by his aunt Margarete Steiff, and became integral to its growth as a global toy company.
Replica of an original 1903 Steiff teddy bear, Steiff-Museum Giengen, Germany A stuffed toy is a toy doll with an outer fabric sewn from a textile and stuffed with flexible material. They are known by many names, such as plush toys , plushies , lovies , stuffed animals , diane , and stuffies ; in Britain and Australia, they may also be called ...
Pages in category "German companies established in 1912" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .