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Siebenwurst currently employs over 340 employees

• 14 administration staff
• 7 management staff
• 8 IT & systems staff
• 10 sales/application support/calculation staff
• 3 work preparation staff
• 77 bank groups
• 40 CAD/CAM
• 77 machine manufacturing staff
• 16 injection die-casting staff
• 21 model construction staff
• 13 project management staff
• 6 quality assurance staff
• 28 trainees
• 10 logistics / warehousing staff
• 16 supporting services staff

We’re Thinking About the Future

People are the most important factor in our company’s success. For this reason, we want to continue to invest in highly qualified personnel in the future.  We provide vocational training in the following specialist areas:

• Model Design and Construction Mechanics - Specialisation in auto body model construction
• IT Specialists - Specialisation in system integration
• Industrial Managers
• Draughtspersons
• Process Engineers
• Tooling Engineers

Our Training Program Successes:

• 4 Chamber Winners in Model Construction
• 2 National Winners in Model Construction
• Our 3rd National Victory in the Professional Model Builder Competition
• Participation in the Model Builder Professional World Championship in Canada 1999

History of Siebenwurst - A Company Rich in Tradition

A Look Back in Time by Leonhard Siebenwurst

Leonhard Siebenwurst, my grandfather, founded a model pattern shop in Nuremberg’s Fabrikstrasse 38 on May 19th, 1897.  He began with one helper and a hand-operated lathe making wooden models for the manufacture of cast iron parts.  My grandfather was born on January 29th, 1864 and died on July 15th, 1913 in Nuremberg.  At the time of his death, around 8 model designers and builders were employed by the company.  Grandfather had manufactured wooden models.  He additionally did the preliminary work for a relative, Mr. Maurer, owner of the Maurer "Motorfahrzeugfabrik Union".  The Maurer company built the first motor vehicles in Nuremberg.  Prior to 1900, Maurer built and supplied the first cars.

After grandfather died, my grandmother managed the company until their two sons, Karl Christian and Johann Friedrich, took over the reigns.  In the 1930’s, my father and his brother went their separate ways and my father opened his own model construction company at the old Nuremberg-Wörth location.  Around 1940, he relocated the model construction business to Celtisplatz in Nuremberg, south of the main train station.  The number of model builders employed there grew to about 40 people.  Totally destroyed in March of 1943, work was restarted in another hall, but this was also completely destroyed at the end of 1943 along with all of the documentation.  Until the end of 1943, 1:1 casting house models of Messerschmidt aircraft were made of wood and used for wind tunnel flow measurements.  Following the total destruction at the end of 1943, the operation was again relocated to Dietfurt.  Some 25 Nuremberg-based employees also accompanied the move to Dietfurt, with work beginning in a wooden barracks.
At the end of World War II in 1945, foundry work collapsed and my father resorted to carpentry work for a time, repairing things like doors and windows.  Some time around the end of the 40’s, casting house models were once again in demand and we picked up the work again.  The number of our model builders rose again and we started very early on with apprenticeship training - model builders already in the 1940’s.  The first Master was Mr. Biller, one of the employees who had transferred from Nuremberg to Dietfurt.  In the early 1950’s, the first casting house models made of aluminium were made for large-scale serial production.  This developed into mould design and construction with tools made of steel.  The first things we did were to make moulds from grey cast iron and steel for casting aluminium parts - dead-mould casting.  This then developed toward the end of the 50’s into mould design and construction for plastic moulds, initially press moulds and then injection moulds.  This sector grew then very rapidly, requiring us to build new halls and invest above all in copy and milling machines.  Apprenticeship training was increased, and we consequently frequently had 40 - 45 apprentices working on completing the 3 ½ year course.  Today, our operation has expanded in this way to over 320 employees, making us one of the most important employers in our region.  We give our employees prospects for the future and secure workplaces.  And with our products, we are among the best and most important operations in our branch.
It is this history that provides us with our motto:
"We are the most capable problem-solvers for our customers, from design models up to production"