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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. | ||
<gallery widths= | <gallery widths=230px heights=185 caption="Design Berlin Gotha 41, courtesy Chip Fadeley"> | ||
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<gallery widths=250 heights=185 caption="Another Gotha example (#44) and details, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | |||
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Currently db employs appr. 12 workers in Schweina, where the production of the series pipes was concentrated. The design work and the unique freehands were made for further years in the old workshop in Berlin-Kreuzberg until these activities were also moved to Schweina. '''Rudolf Apelt''', today working on his own as "[[Baiano]]", followed Lothar Schirwitz until young and talented '''Martin Schmalz''' took over. | Currently db employs appr. 12 workers in Schweina, where the production of the series pipes was concentrated. The design work and the unique freehands were made for further years in the old workshop in Berlin-Kreuzberg until these activities were also moved to Schweina. '''Rudolf Apelt''', today working on his own as "[[Baiano]]", followed Lothar Schirwitz until young and talented '''Martin Schmalz''' took over. | ||