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Margarete Steiff
Margarete Steiff was a German seamstress who in 1880 founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, more widely known as Steiff, a maker of toy stuffed animals.
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business · Foundress of Margarete Steiff GmbH in Germany · designer · tailor · entrepreneur · also Margarete Steiff, Apollonia Margarete Steiff, Margarethe Steiff, Steiff
Born 24 July 1847 · Died 9 May 1909 · Q69306
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Fernsehprogramm: Margarete Steiff
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2023· 1 entry
Nachrichten: Margarete Steiff: Eine Frau mit Bärenkräften
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2020· 1 entry
Augsburger Allgemeine: Vom Kuscheltier zur "Hall of Fame": Eine Ehre für Margarete Steiff
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2018· 1 entry
Stuttgarter Zeitung: Margarete-Steiff-Schule in Stuttgart-Möhringen Der Außenseiter gibt alles
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2014· 2 entries
WDR: Margarete Steiff, Spielwarenfabrikantin (Todestag 9.5.1909)
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WDR: Stichtag: 9. Mai 1909 Margarete Steiff stirbt in Giengen
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2011· 1 entry
Die Tageszeitung: Biografie Margarete Steiff: Karriere mit Kuscheltier
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2006· 2 entries
Movie Pilot: Kommentare zu Margarete Steiff
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Stern: "Margarete Steiff": Heike Makatsch für Emmy nominiert
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1910· 1 entry
Steiff won the Grand Prix at the Brussels International Exposition in Belgium
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1909· 1 entry
Died 1909-05-09.
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1902· 2 entries
The company began making a toy bear with moveable joints based on a design by her nephew, Richard Steiff
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Richard designed "Bear 55 PB", the first soft toy with movable joints, which was to become the world's first teddy bear
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1897· 1 entry
Margarete's creative nephew, Richard, joined the company
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1892· 1 entry
Margarete's small company applied for a patent "for making of animals and other figures to serve as playthings"
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1880· 1 entry
Founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, more widely known as Steiff, a maker of toy stuffed animals
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1879· 1 entry
The American magazine The Delineator published a pattern for a cloth mouse, rabbit, elephant, and other animal patterns followed
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1877· 1 entry
Margarete opened a felt store and began making felt underskirts, which had just become fashionable, for the firm of Christian Siegle in Stuttgart
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1847· 1 entry
Born 1847-07-24.
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