The Vesta Sewing Machine Company came through the world economic crisis relatively well, in 1940 Karl Dietrich was the owner and CEO. In 1906 the company produced Saxonia, Dietrich and Vesta sewing machines, by 1920 the name of Dietrich was replaced by Vesta. The trademark name of Vesta, which later almost replaced the name Dietrich, was used for the first time in 1895 according to advertisements. Dietrich also started manufacturing knitting machines in 1906. Dietrich began by building Saxonia hand and treadle sewing machines, then changed to Vibrating Shuttle, then to IF type machines (ring shuttle, long beak), CB and rotary sewing machines, as the other Altenburger factories did in 1890. The washrooms and showers were exemplary, as was the canteen. His son took over the company and enlarged the existing factory, adding first a lighting department and in 1911/12 a completely new building. There Dietrich made shuttles, cabinets and tools, and was to a large extent independent of suppliers. In 1889 Dietrich established its own foundry. At this time the annual production was about 12,000 sewing machines. In 1875 the company moved to Wilhelmstrasse, and in 1880/81 into the new factory building in Ziegelstrasse. He started manufacturing his own sewing machines in 1874. Annual production amounted to 1871 – 20 sewing machines, 1872 - 400 sewing machines.īy 1873 Dietrich left the partnership, because he didn’t see eye to eye with Köhler, and set up in the "sewing machine retail trade" with a repair outlet in the Sporenstrasse in Altenburg. Under the company name of Dietrich and Co they rented premises in an Altenburger brush factory, bought the most important machines (Winselmann obtained the money from a wealthy building family in Ploetzkau) and started sewing machine production with only a few men.Īt first only hand sewing machines using the Singer principal called Saxonias were manufactured. In the summer of 1871, even before the Franco-German war they planned to develop their own sewing machine company, and founded it on July 21st, then registered it on October 7th. Company History translated by Claire Sherwellįriedrich Leopold Oscar Dietrich (1847-1904), Heinrich Hermann Köhler (1849-1914) and Leberecht Friedrich Gustav Winselmann (1842-1907) got to know each other as fellow mechanics in the Clemens Müller sewing machine factory in Dresden.
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