Kategorie: KELLNER STACKING

Toys with a story. From the Thuringian Forest The Schnuckenacks plug-in figures go back to Georg Kellner, a young piano maker who followed his passion in Leipzig in 1914 and began building flyable aircraft models, which were followed by ship models, powered by spring drives, electric motors or steam engines. After the First World War, he began to offer construction kits, which were soon used as craft, craft and visual aids in school lessons. In 1930 Kellner developed his patented system of building blocks of different colors and shapes, which could be put together using elastic connectors to form a wide variety of figures, mythical creatures, animals, vehicles or cable cars. The waiter plug-in figures were born. After the Second World War, the company moved to Tabarz in the Thuringian Forest. Under socialism, the wooden components of the boxes were replaced by plastic ones and hundreds of thousands of them were produced in series. The company, which was transferred to public ownership in 1972, had to stop production in 1989. At the same time, however, Hans Georg Kellner founded a workshop for wood design in Berlin, bought back the nationalized former family property in Tabarz in 1992 and reissued the famous plug-in figures - as before, made of wood, supplemented with leather and colorful felt.