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Meanwhile, possibly as early as in 1890, Wolf and his sons founded another company located in
Reichenbacher Straße which eventually settled for the name Carl Wolf Söhne. All the produce of FrieWo except for lamps was diverted into the new company, including lighters, kerosine ovens, kitchen ware such
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Following the end of WWI, the subsidiaries of
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Zwickau/Sa., or GLZ. The company produced a variety of electric lighting appliances such as railway signaling handlamps and torches, as well as portable Ni-Cd batteries. The production of carbide lamps ceased in 1958, and that of gasoline lamps in 1960, the company henceforth
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September 1945, the company was transferred under Soviet military administration. In March following year, the production facilities were to be disassembled and shipped to Poland. However, this would mean the
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explosions while shining brighter than previous designs and not giving off as much smoke as oil lamps did. In 1884, together with a business partner, Wolf founded
Friemann & Wolf, or FrieWo. Initially based in a small workshop, the production quickly moved to a newly built factory in
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Zwickau, which was both a part of the reparations claimed by the USSR, as well as needed for Soviet vehicles and other equipment stationed in Germany. Thus, in the end, a third of the equipment was allowed to stay.
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with Ni-Cd and lead-acid batteries. After the Nazi Party's ascend to power, the
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