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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 | 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. | ||
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. | ||