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'''Josef Brunner''', oldest son of the farmer Konstantin Brunner from the hamlet Nieder-Huggerwald belonging to the community of Kleinlützel (Canton Solothurn), was sent in 1871 to a pipe turner in Winkel / Alsace for his apprenticeship. Like it was usual at that time, Brunner went on wanderings as travelling journeyman after ending the apprenticeship. So he came to Saint-Claude, the world's stronghold of the briar pipe manufacturing then. There Brunner was able to increase and deepen his knowledge in the field of industrial pipe making.

At some point in the late 1970's Bru-Bu went out of business. Some of the Brunners, as far as known, continued as timber traders. But in 1986 new life filled the old Bru-Bu pipe workshop, when the gang of '''Dr. Horst Wiethüchter''' and '''"Former" Nielsen''' started to produce the high-grade '''[[Bentley]]''' pipes there. (The article on Bentley is coming soon.)

Following Josef Brunner, '''Moritz Tschan''' in 1892 established a second pipe factory in Kleinlützel. Wherewith the small place in the Canton of Solothurn became the center of the Swiss pipe manufacturing - rhapsodically called "the Saint-Claude of Switzerland".

[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]][[Category: Switzerland]]