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Die Seite wurde neu angelegt: „Bergmann joined the company in 1880. He became a partner in 1884 and the company was renamed "Eisenwerke Gaggenau, Flürscheim und Bergmann". The company's core activities at this stage were heavily focused on the iron foundry, smithy and enameling plant.<ref>Michael Wessel: Michael Flürscheim, page 144.</ref> Bergmann's friendship with the Cologne-based chocolate manufacturer Ludwig Stollwerck proved pivotal at this time. Gaggenau received an order from…“
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[[File:1900 ca Belegschaft der Eisenwerke Gaggenau BSH Konzernarchiv.jpg|thumb|400x400px|Gaggenau's workforce around 1900. (Source: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH)]] | |||
[[ | The product portfolio was reduced dramatically at the turn of the century. The plant focused on products such as bicycles – more than 250,000 of the popular "Badenia" bicycles were sold between 1880 and 1908<ref>Michael Wessel: Michael Flürscheim, page 146.</ref> – as well as coal and gas-fired stoves. During the First World War, production was switched fully to war materials. Business began to recover again initially following the war. But inflation and an economic crisis at the end of the 1920s ultimately led to the closure of the plant. | ||
The company was reestablished in 1931<ref>The history of "Eisenwerke Gaggenau GmbH" in keywords (Gaggenau town archive), materials on the history of the Gaggenau ironworks, BSH Corporate Archives, C03- 0296.</ref> and taken over by Otto von Blanquet. In the following years, Gaggenau developed the first electric cooker, representing another important step on the path toward becoming a cooker and oven specialist. After a bomb attack destroyed large parts of the plant facilities on September 10, 1944, work began again initially on rebuilding the factory in the post-war years. It was onward and upward from there, with the company expanding and modernizing its product offering in the course of the currency reform in 1948 and the subsequent "economic miracle". Dr. von Blanquet continued to develop ovens – though of a different type. The revised design consumed less coal and gas ("coal and gas-saving stoves"), gaining the company the reputation of an economic alternative. With the growing popularity of the electric oven, the electric variants of the economical ovens as well as the electrical heating and ventilation systems also gained ground increasingly. Gaggenau appliances thus found their way into many new kitchens in the rebuilt Europe. | |||
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