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Steiff Summer Family Festival 2019

February 13, 2021June 24, 2019

Steiff Summer Family Festival – Giengen, Germany The Big Steiff Summer Family Festival in Giengen from June 28th to 30th. From June 28th to 30th, Margarete Steiff GmbH invites you to the annual summer family festival around the Steiff Museum in Giengen an der Brenz. On three days, all Steiff fans, lovers and collectors can look forward to a varied program on the show stage as well as various highlights of the famous plush bears. Steiff is known far beyond …

Margarete Steiff: A Brief Biography

February 13, 2021June 23, 2019

Margarete Steiff – Founder of Steiff Margarete Steiff: A paralyzed seamstress created a toy empire. She managed to be incredible, as a woman with her disability was already written off in the 19th century. Despite her fate, the German Margarete Steiff did not give up and created the toy empire that still exists today. An inconspicuous tailor in a wheelchair created the first plush toys. Among them is the legendary teddy bear. Apolonia Margarete, or even Gretel – as everyone …

The Teddy Bear Who Took On Hitler’s Third Reich

February 13, 2021June 23, 2019

Tom Matthews and the WWII Steiff Bear This is the four foot, battered teddy bear who took on Hitler’s Third Reich – and won. Quite simply, there’s not a bear in the world who can boast the wartime exploits of this paw-atrooper. Yes, he needs some TLC – he’s effectively blind, with buttons for eyes, and the ears need re-stitching. But that’s hardly surprising for a mascot that marched with our troops all the way to Berlin. The toy trooper …