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  Even by 1904, the generously planned premises of the Baier & Schneider building in Wollhausstrasse were beginning to burst at the seams, and within only 96 days fifty construction workers managed to put up the walls and roof of what was to be the 'new building'.  This new construction was 16 meters wide and 75 meters long. Together with its cellars, it was seven storeys high and decorated in arte nouveau style. In 1906, Wilhelm Hagenmeyer introduced the first price list as a feature of the modern way of accounting. In 1925, which marked the end of inflation, it was used to consolidate what had already been achieved. In this way, Baier & Schneider was again able to stand on a sure foundation at the beginning of an economic crisis.
| | Dr. Richard Schneider, son of the firm’s founder, Andreas Schneider, laid the foundations for modern machine manufacture, and with the introduction of the electric motor, individual machines could be placed in any sequence desired. This idea continued into the thirties, which enabled the machines to be progressively linked to one another so that production could be carried out in an ordered, sensible way. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, about 500 people were employed at the firm. On 4th December 1944, the factory, like the rest of Heilbronn’s inner city, fell victim to a hail of bombs, which resulted in its total destruction.
| 1877 – 1903
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