In 1946, Franz Baumann had begun to make teddy bears from war blankets purchased from the English Army. He showed his bears at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1949. By 1951, he collaborated with childhood friend, Franz Kienel, to form Baumann & Kienel.
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