Translations:Gaggenau/8/en

The company was reestablished in 1931 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.