So, it is with pleasure that I tell you that your puppet is “Jolly Hase” made by the German toy company Steiff somewhere between 1973 and 1986. Margarete Steiff was born in Germany in 1847.

July 24, 2022 is the 175th birthday of Margarete Steiff. A great opportunity to introduce this woman entrepreneur to your students.

Hans-Otto Steiff, 75, retired president of Margarete Steiff G.m.b.H., makers of teddy bears and other animal toys, died Dec. 31 in his hometown of Giengen, Germany, after several strokes. The ...

The BMO Harris Bank collection of Steiff animals has steadily grown to include more than 150 Steiff animals -- collectors’ items originally made in Germany by Margarete Steiff, who hand-stitched ...

Against overwhelming odds, through despair and desperation, Margarete fought her way out of her hopeless situation to become the legendary founder of the "Steiff" toy-empire, which achieved world-wide ...

The company’s painstaking approach to toymaking began in 1880 in the Giengen dressmaking shop of Margarete Steiff, Hans-Otto’s great-aunt. Partially paralyzed by polio since childhood ...

German dressmaker Margarete Steiff made her first bear in 1884.

A secretary has filed a $60 million sexual harassment suit that threatens to take the stuffing out of famed teddy bear maker Margarete Steiff GmbH. The German company and CEO Martin Frechen are ...

The nine Steiff bears are from Rebekah Kaufman’s personal collection of about 800 Steiff animals which she displays in every room of her Cambridge home. A third-generation Steiff collector and a ...

Steiff's teddy bears, loved by children of all ages the world over, are distinctive, says Toyohiko Sato, a member of the exhibition committee. "First, the material used is mohair, the expensive ...