Who made Höfner guitars in 1945?

In 1945, Karl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG controlled the Höfner name. No plant is on record for that year.^[1]

A Höfner guitar from 1945 belongs to whichever era was running on its product line that year. An era is a stretch when the company that controlled the name and the plant that built the line both stayed the same. If you know the line, the table below tells you which version of Höfner you have. The name dates from 1887^{[1, S1024]}, 58 years before.

Line by line in 1945

What changed in 1945

• Höfner German-built guitars and basses (Schönbach, Bubenreuth, Hagenau; 1930s to present): a new era begins under Karl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG^[1]
• Höfner German-built guitars and basses (Schönbach, Bubenreuth, Hagenau; 1930s to present): the 1930–1945 era ends (Karl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG, Höfner Schönbach works (now Luby, Czech Republic))^[1]

Other brands in 1945

• Epiphone in 1945
• Gibson in 1945
• Gretsch in 1945
• Harmony in 1945
• Ibanez in 1945
• Martin in 1945
• Rickenbacker in 1945
• Every brand in 1945

Höfner, year by year

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

1. 1
   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 1945: 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.Era ends: Höfner German-built guitars and basses (Schönbach, Bubenreuth, Hagenau; 1930s to present), 1945

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