Höfner guitars in the 1940s

Through the 1940s, Karl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG controlled the Höfner name, and 2 plants built it: Höfner Schönbach works (now Luby, Czech Republic) and Höfner interim workshop, Möhrendorf.^[1]

3 eras touch the 1940s across 1 line. The version changed in 1945 and 1948. A guitar from either side of those years can be a different Höfner.

Year by year

Eras in the 1940s

Other brands in the 1940s

• Epiphone in the 1940s
• Fender in the 1940s
• Gibson in the 1940s
• Gretsch in the 1940s
• Harmony in the 1940s
• Ibanez in the 1940s
• Martin in the 1940s
• Maton in the 1940s
• Rickenbacker in the 1940s

Höfner, year by year

Sources

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   Hofner: A Short Historygraded primary

   • He established his works at Schönbach then the European centre of stringed instrument making. [...] On 1st January 1994 Höfner was sold to Boosey & Hawkes, a major british music companyHöfner in the 1940s: owners and plants
   • During the 1930s the company began production of guitars [...] resulting in the summer of 1945 in the takeover of the company by a state administrator.Höfner in the 1940s: owners and plants
   • they set up the business, almost from scratch, in 1948 at Möhrendorf in Bavaria.Höfner in the 1940s: owners and plants

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