Golliwogg Leven 1925 Replica by Hermann Green

Description

Golli made by German company Hermann Green.  A replica of one produced originally in 1925.  Measures 36cm in height.

The Hermann Green family owned factory specialises in special occasion & character teddy bears.  Over the years they’ve produced the odd Golli as well.  Every item is hand crafted with love.

Hermann Green brief history: After the the First World War and the death of Johann in 1919, the Hermann brothers and sisters started their own separate businesses. In 1920 Max Hermann founded his own company in his birth house in Neufang.      

Together with his wife Hilde, Max Hermann moved in 1923 from Neufang to the World Toy Capital of Sonneberg. Here his Teddy Bear company became a well-known name. His Teddy Bears are send around the globe.

At  the beginning of the Thirties Max Hermann developed his well-known trademark “the green triangle” and “the Bear with the running dog”

To this day, these features are the important parts of the sign of HERMANN-Coburg

  After the Second World War, Germany
was divided into East and West. The World Toy Capital of Sonneberg became part of East Germany. Together with his family, Max Hermann fled in 1953 from Sonneberg in the East to Coburg in the West.

Here Max Hermann built up again his company and continued the old tradition of the manufacture of his Teddy Bears. The picture shows the first employees in Coburg.

When Max Hermann dies in 1955, his son Rolf-G. takes the leadership of the company.