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Lothar Schirwitz also made very fine one of a kind freehands. Today these db pipes wearing his name stamped are highly sought for after he retired having worked almost fifty years for Hartmann / Design Berlin. According to his potential he might have been one of Germany's praised highgraders, but he prefered to stay in the background unboastfully. | Lothar Schirwitz also made very fine one of a kind freehands. Today these db pipes wearing his name stamped are highly sought for after he retired having worked almost fifty years for Hartmann / Design Berlin. According to his potential he might have been one of Germany's praised highgraders, but he prefered to stay in the background unboastfully. | ||
In the early 1980s db was taken over by the Dr. Manfred Obermann Company from Berlin and afterwards administrated by PLANTA Tabak-Manufaktur, one of Germany's biggest tobacco companies (which itself now has been taken over by Mac Baren<ref>https://smokersplanet.de/ende-und-anfang-berliner-traditionsunternehmen-planta-tabak-jetzt-unter-dem-mac-baren-dach</ref>). The name was changed to '''Pfeifenstudio db - Design Berlin'''. Planta's international business contacts helped a lot to increase exports to England and the United States. Switzerland and Austria are also important customers and recently db is selling well in many East European countries. | In the early 1980s db was taken over by the Dr. Manfred Obermann Company from Berlin and afterwards administrated by PLANTA Tabak-Manufaktur, one of Germany's biggest tobacco companies (which itself now has been taken over by [[Mac Baren]]<ref>https://smokersplanet.de/ende-und-anfang-berliner-traditionsunternehmen-planta-tabak-jetzt-unter-dem-mac-baren-dach</ref>). The name was changed to '''Pfeifenstudio db - Design Berlin'''. Planta's international business contacts helped a lot to increase exports to England and the United States. Switzerland and Austria are also important customers and recently db is selling well in many East European countries. | ||
1993 saw another major step in db's history: Planta / db took over the former '''VEB Pfeifen und Holzerzeugnisse Bad Liebenstein''' (shortly "Howal" for "Holzwaren Liebenstein") that had been closed down in 1990 after the consolidation of the two German states. Howal had been the sole producer of tobacco pipes in the late GDR. The company had been founded by Carl Sebastian Reich in Schweina in 1887 and by it's 50th jubilee in 1937 [[C.S. Reich]] was the biggest pipe factory in Germany. | 1993 saw another major step in db's history: Planta / db took over the former '''VEB Pfeifen und Holzerzeugnisse Bad Liebenstein''' (shortly "Howal" for "Holzwaren Liebenstein") that had been closed down in 1990 after the consolidation of the two German states. Howal had been the sole producer of tobacco pipes in the late GDR. The company had been founded by Carl Sebastian Reich in Schweina in 1887 and by it's 50th jubilee in 1937 [[C.S. Reich]] was the biggest pipe factory in Germany. | ||