Chronicle of an everyday object
1425
In the House Book of the Twelve Brothers Foundation in Nuremberg, Lorenz Schneider, who died in 1414, is depicted with a hanger.
16th Century in Central Europe
- First hanger for hanging up uniforms
- Solid wooden hanger for mounting epaulettes
- Further development for nobility, church and curia
1770, Paris
- Establishment of the first garment business
- Garment and textile businesses have dealt intensively with the presentation of clothing and were important purchasers of the most varying possibilities for hanging up clothing.
Around 1800
- High jacket collars necessitate the adaptation of clothes hanger shapes.
- Hangers with long wooden rods are employed to protect clothing from rats and mice or to make drying the clothing easier.
- American President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) is said to have invented the forerunner of the wooden clothes hanger. The sketch of a clothes hanger wardrobe has survived.
1836
The serial production of coats begins in Berlin.
Around 1850
- Regular use of wire clothes hangers for the voluminous women’s clothing of the Victorian era.
- Isaac Singer invents the first sewing machine. The industrial manufacture of textiles begins.
1865
Wilhelm Busch publishes the stories of the rascals Max and Moritz. An illustration with a clothes hanger is depicted.
1867
First patent for a clothes hanger (adjustable in length) in the USA
1869
O. A. North is said to have developed a wire clothes hanger with shoulder pads.
1884
First German patent for a clothes hanger
1899
Messrs. Sinram and Wendt establish a clothes hanger factory in Hanover, primarily for wooden hangers. The company is later known by the name “UNION”.
1903
Albert J. Parkhouse invents the classic wire clothes hanger. His boss John B. Timberlake registers the patent and makes a fortune with his firm, the Timberlake Wire and Novelty Company.
1924
Adolf Pieper opens another clothes hanger factory in Hameln. Starting in 1970, plastic hangers are also produced here.
1948
German currency reform, numerous company formations: Martin Wagner establishes the MAWA Metal Goods Factory in the Pfaffenbräu Brewery.
1955
Patent registration and production of the first MAWA GmbH pants hanger
1960
MAWA GmbH produces the first metal hanger for tops with anti-slip coating.