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A little
bit of history...
1961:
Setting Up RIWA
Senior manager Fritz Wagener
founded RIWA (Fritz Wagener) in 1961, having its home
in a Nuremberg in a former
car garage. Starting on March 29th, 1961, the small
family-run business manufactured plastic components for
the photo industry. Slide frames, ventilators, tiny
cog-wheels and many other minute parts. Pretty soon,
this production facility was too small to keep up with
all the orders pouring in. Fritz Wagener found just the
right area in the countryside: construction of the RIWA
factory started in Dietenhofen in 1964. The topping-out
ceremony was held on July 12th, 1965. By fall, the
company moved into the new production facilities with
an area of 1000 square meters. It was the same year in
which Fritz Wagener took over the company Herpa.
1965:
Takeover of the 1949 founded company HERPA®
In its branch in Beilngries,
Herpa already produced accessory for model trains and
electric racing-car courses. And since Herpa was
founded in 1949, we will be celebrating the 50-year
anniversary of the company in 1999. The name Herpa set
together out of "Hergenröder Patente (patents)".
But let’s go back to the year 1965. For the time being,
production of products for the photo industry was
continued in Dietenhofen under the RIWA, and accessory
for the model market under the Herpa banner. After the
model accessories had grown and were still growing
strongly, pushed of course even more by the
introduction of the car miniatures in 1978, the company
concentrated all its workmanship in this branch and
helped Herpa mature into a well-known and respected
name in the field of car models. Nowadays for
collectors as well as industrial customers Herpa
belongs to the first choice in modelcars and since a
few years in model-airplanes, too.
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