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The
History of Warrings Furniture Manufacture
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1909
On 1. March 1909, Johann Warrings established a shop for furniture,
decoration and upholstering.
1914
With the beginning of World War I, Johann Warrings was called-up
and had to give up the business.
1918
After the war he bought a business house including an existent
furniture trade, a joinery and a funeral director's office.
1935
Johann Warrings and his son Hero set up a shop trade in the newly
built "Hanseatenhaus."
1939
The beginning of the war in September 1939 was a bad blow for
the company again. The shop had to be closed down, and the company
could only be upheld on a small scale.
1944
"Hanseatenhaus" was completely destroyed by the major attack on
Bremerhaven.
1945/46
Fugitives and expellees landed in the area of Bremerhaven. Among
those were the two joiners Bruno and Horst Knobloch from Silesia,
and from Thuringia, members of Albin May's family who had been
well-known for his handicraft furniture works (Zeulenrodaer Kunstmöbelwerke
Albin May).
1948
With this personal support a new joinery was built on the garden
plot of Warrings family.
1949
The first trade fair for furniture took place in Cologne. Here,
Warrings presented first period furniture (some of them had been
built after sketches from Zeulenroda), which achieved a good success.
Refering to this, the companies managers decided to build period
furniture consequently. In this year died Johann Warrings, the
companies founder. His son Hero took over the business and conducted
it until 1996.
1958
Warrings company has become one of the founder members of a community
for advertising, "Arbeitskreis Deutscher Stilmöbel", which still
exists. The great amount of jobs required an increase of the production
and the extention of the factory.
1966
A branch of the company was established in Tann/Rhön, where sculptures
were produced. A dockyard
was founded in Bremerhaven. Several fine wooden boats were built,
but soon the business had to close down as plastic boats flood
the market.
1968
Warrings took over Klocke & Co., founded in 1897. The company
from Bremen brought in the lacquering of Bergisch-Baroque and
a bedroom line.
1996
Annette Warrings succeeded the management of the business from
her father. Klocke's furniture production moved to Bremerhaven.
1997
The export trade was intensed to countries such as Bahrain, Great
Britain, Russia, Egypt and the USA.
1999
As the last member of the founder family, Annette Warrings left
the manufactory Warrings.
2000
The business was sold in july to an investor-group. Todays name
is: Warrings Manufaktur für Stilmöbel GmbH & Co.
KG
2001
The subsidiary "Lofthouse by Warrings" was founded in January.
For the first time in Warrings' history, furniture of the Lofthouse-range
is offered directly to private customers. Further in this year,
an e-Commerce platform was initiated at www.warrings.com/lofthouse.
2002
In October departure from the rented buildings
in Bremerhaven and move into the manufactory existing since
more than 40 years in Tann/Rhön. Shutdown of the location
Bremerhaven.
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