Thread: Lauterjung = Puma

I can't find the post where I mentioned that Lauterjung was Puma so I just started a new thread.


The PUMA Chronicle
Puma-Werk Lauterjung & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG

1769
Johann Wilhelm Lauterjung writes down his trademark in the knife makers role of Solingen - the PUMA history started.
1855
His great-grandchild Nathanael (1815-1865) moved the production to the nearby city of Solingen
1876
His son, Ernst Otto Lauterjung (1855-1931) for the first time also manufactures pocket-knives, stilettos, sabers and hunting knives in an additional small factory.
1900
On May 26th the name "PUMA-Werk, Lauterjung und Sohn" is written down on the Solingen register of companies.
1920
The sons Eugen (1883-1961) and Franz (1888-1976) build a second plant in Solingen and push the export. So PUMA got known internationally before the II. World War.
1936-1945
During the second World War the production is put under the authority of the war industry.
1946
Return to the civilian production of pocket- and household knives.
1953
Oswald von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1915-1986), husband of Renate Lauterjung, changes the produktion on functional hunting-, fishing-, outdoor- and sporting knives. In cooperation with top forestray commissioner Walte Frevert, a numerous PUMA classics are developed (Waidbesteck, Jagdnicker, Waidmesser, universal hunting knife and hog spear). The bloodhound leader Tassius designs the Rüdemann and the Wildtöte.
1956
PUMA develops the model White Hunter for the East african hunting organization.
1965
PUMA introduces the number system. Every model gets an examining number of its own, incl. guarantee exercise book, with production year.
1967
Renate von Frankenberg takes over the management in the PUMA-Werk.
1986
Oswald von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf dies and leaves an economically highly profitable and internationally recognized enterprise behind.
1991
Sale of PUMA-Werk to the Solinger family Hindrichs.
1995
Harald Lauer, already active in the enterprise since the end of the seventies, becomes Managing director of PUMA-Werk. Under his management new production methods are forced, e.g. CNC controllers and laser technology.
1998
Sale to businessman Heiner Hiepass-Aryus and removal to the modern industrial area "Aufderhöhe".
2003
Next to the classic line PUMA offers its customers a series of very qualitative knives in traditional design under the label "PUMA IP" ( PUMA International Production).
2008
With "Puma TEC" the company completes its knife program with economically attractive, fixed blade and folding knives in a modern look.

When did they stop making straight razors?

Jerry

Originally Posted by figaro

When did they stop making straight razors?

Jerry

From what I have been told - Dovo made them under contract, (ground by Heribert Wacker who had previously made them at Puma Werk for most of his career), for about the last fifteen years of their manufacture. That would mean that Puma stopped in house production of them in the mid 1980s.

Do not be mistaken by this - the ones made at Dovo were every bit as good as the ones made by Puma proper. Most razors comming out of Solingen then and today are of superior quality and each is capable of being your "holy grail" of shaving if it is honed right.

PUMA, a well known name from Solingen, the home of high quality cutlery

Solingen, the traditional home of high quality knives, has been the scene of success for PUMA-WERK, Lauterjung & Sohn an internationally renowned byword for quality for more than two centuries. It has always been part of the PUMA-WERK philosophy to manufacture products worthy of the magic name "Solingen". This attitude has produced impressive results: Hunting, sporting and pocket knives with the PUMA emblem are among the beat of their kind in the world, and are known and sought after all over the globe. By using the name PUMA, Lauterjung & Sohn are making a clear profession of their determination to uphold the standards maintained in Solingen, the centre of the German cutlery trade for centuries.

PUMA-WERK, Lauterjung & Sohn, currently employing about 100 highly qualified staff members, has remained in family ownership since its foundation over 200 years ago. Johann Wilhelm Lauterjung had his first trade mark entered into the renowned Solingen Master Cutlers Guild register as long ago an 1769, before the French Revolution and the invention of the steam engine. Using this trade mark a long and fruitful period of hard-working craftsmanship followed for the founder working together with his son, Johann Wilhelm Lauterjung (1755-1820), and grandson, Nathanael Lauterjung (1784-1839), in a cottage alongside the Wupper river. Solingen's craftsmen had very early learned to harness the water power of the Wupper to drive their grinding stones. In the Lauterjung workshop the first famous knives were, at that time, ground on heavy natural stones. At the beginning of the nineteenth century there were still 93 grinding cottages and six drop-hammer forging shops in operation, for cutlery products, along the Wupper and its seven tributary streams.

The invention of the steam engine also led to structural changes within the cutlery industry. More and more firms moved into the centre of the then still small town of Solingen.

Thus Mathanael Lauterjung (1815-1865), a great-grandson of the founder, also moved his company to Solingen. This workshop rapidly expanded so that Ernst Otto Lauterjung (1855-1931) was able to set up the company's first small factory. At that time special care was taken to manufacture various items of cutlery of particularly high quality. The programme included razors, haircutting scissors, pocket knives, but also "cold arms", such as stilettos, hunting knives and sabres. Valuable hand-painted catalogues still convey an impression of this very varied range of cutlery.

The next generation, Eugen Lauterjung (1883-1969) and Franz Lauterjung (1888-1976), entered the company after the First World War. They were the first members of the family to be "Just" businessmen. Under their influence, the sales emphasis turned increasingly to export, making considerable increases in production necessary. The two directors adopted various measures in order to cope effectively with this demand. A large building was erected, which still serves as the main factory building even today. From then on the PUMA-WERK in Solingen had two places of production. Both were equipped with efficient machines to provide the necessary assistance for those processes carried out by hand in order to cope with the increasing production of fine cutlery. Apart from that, the company abandoned the then still common practice of home labour in the cottages of the surrounding district and changed the whole production to craftsmen within their own factory. This move was a sensation at the time in Solingen. The transition to a more progressive method of working immediately showed in an improvement in quality. It was now possible to control all stages of production directly within the factory.

After the Second World War a fundamental change took place in the PUMA-WERK. With the entry of Oswald von Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorf into the company, the production programme was reorganized completely. As an experienced hunter, well *acquainted with the special needs of hunting all over the world, Oswald von Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorf systematically switched over production to specialise in the manufacture of outdoor *knives for hunting, fishing and sport. Production of razors and haircutting scissors was reduced. In close cooperation with Walter Frevert, a well-known senior forest ranger (among other things he was in charge of the state-owned forest range of Rominten and was for many years president of the Interna*tional Bloodhound Association), patented hunting knives were produced which, without exception, are adapted to the customs in specific hunting areas in the world. On the basis of a carefully planned range of products, and by still continuing to employ traditional production methods, it soon proved possible for the PUMA-WERK,Lauterjung & Sohn company to make a breakthrough in the international market. Today the company occupies a leading position in the hunting, fishing, and sporting knives sector.

In, 1967 Mrs. Renate von Frankenberg took over the company as a general partner from her father Franz Lauterjung. This means that the PUMA-WERK is now in the sixth generation of family ownership, with the Lauterjung family also directly responsible for the company's running right from its inception. The company has also in the meantime expanded for the fifth time with a further new building. Production conditions have been so arranged that the highly skilled workers have modern and friendly working facilities at their disposal. However, PUMA still takes great care, to cultivate tradition: High quality cutlery goods are produced in the factory in exactly the same way as 200 years ago, with modern technology to assist the skills of craftsmanship. It is thus little wonder that the knives from the PUMA company are indisputedly con*sidered as being among the leading products of their kind in the world, both with regard to their craftsmanship and finish, and also their usefulness. Whether this is with regard to the wide range of hunting knives, or knives for use on expeditions, for mountain climbing or for camping, or just special knives for sport fishing, sailing and diving, each individual knife is characterised by its superb quality.

First class handwork and well-selected material have formed the image of the PUMA trademark all over the world.

John, good work.
But "Puma" was "Lauterjung", I have wrote about this in Wiki.

Not to be confused with "Friedman & Lauterjung", of NY, Newark NJ, and Walden NY, makers of the "Electric" brand of straight razors.

Originally Posted by manah

John, good work.
But "Puma" was "Lauterjung", I have wrote about this in Wiki.

This is what the companies official name is today:

Puma-Werk Lauterjung & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG

You can say it any way it makes you happy but it is the same thing!

Originally Posted by mparker762

Not to be confused with "Friedman & Lauterjung", of NY, Newark NJ, and Walden NY, makers of the "Electric" brand of straight razors.

I wondered about that but didn't want to say anything until after I get one.

Is there a correlation of style of logo with date of manufacture?

Jerry

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...tml#post424515

There ya go John-----


Jimmy your right mine is the New York made "Friedman & Lauterjung".