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 "license": "https://www.radlerparfums.com/terms",
 "id": "schimmel",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "BELL-SCHIMMEL",
  "GILD1900",
  "NDB-FRITZSCHE",
  "PFAP-1925",
  "WD-1"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "Schimmel & Co.",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GILD1900",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GILD1900.txt:7",
  "quote": "caused the firm of Schimmel & Co. of Leipzig to commission the authors",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "kind": "aroma-chemical company",
 "also": [
  "producer of naturals"
 ],
 "founded": {
  "value": "1829",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1829,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "NDB-FRITZSCHE",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-FRITZSCHE.txt:7",
  "quote": "die aus der 1829 gegründeten Firma Spahn & Büttner, später Spahn & Schimmel, hervorgegangen war",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "founded as Spahn & Büttner, later Spahn & Schimmel"
 },
 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "Ernst Ludwig Spahn, druggist",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "NDB-FRITZSCHE",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-FRITZSCHE.txt:8",
   "quote": "Ernst Ludwig Spahn in eine Fabrik ätherischer Öle umgewandelt",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": "Louis Schimmel and his brother turned Spahn’s drug business into an essential-oil factory between 1839 and 1854"
  }
 ],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Leipzig",
   "role": "founded in",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GILD1900",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GILD1900.txt:7",
   "quote": "caused the firm of Schimmel & Co. of Leipzig to commission the authors",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "place": "Miltitz near Leipzig (works moved there in 1901)",
   "role": "works",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "NDB-FRITZSCHE",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-FRITZSCHE.txt:9",
   "quote": "1901 wurde die Betriebsstätte hinaus nach Miltitz bei Leipzig verlegt",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "rose oil distilled at Miltitz from rose bushes brought from Bulgaria in 1888",
   "material": "rose-otto",
   "year": 1888,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GILD1900",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GILD1900.txt:8",
   "quote": "In 1888 the firm obtained a considerable number of rose bushes from Bulgaria",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "heliotropin, made from 1879",
   "year": 1879,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "PFAP-1925",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:18",
   "quote": "la maison Schimmel, dès 1879, commença la fabrication de l’Héliotropine.",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "a report on volatile oils, published from January 1877",
   "year": 1877,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GILD1900",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GILD1900.txt:9",
   "quote": "Since January 1877 the firm of Schimmel & Co., Leipzig, has published a report on volatile oils",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "acquired by",
   "name": "Hermann Traugott Fritzsche (1854)",
   "year": 1854,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "NDB-FRITZSCHE",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-FRITZSCHE.txt:10",
   "quote": "Sein Vater hatte 1854 die chemische Fabrik Schimmel & Co. in Leipzig erworben",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "relation": "acquired by",
   "name": "Bell Flavors & Fragrances (1993; Bell’s own account)",
   "year": 1993,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "BELL-SCHIMMEL",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BELL-SCHIMMEL.txt:7",
   "quote": "With its acquisition of Schimmel & Co. in 1993",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "acquired in 1993 by Bell Flavors & Fragrances, whose own history tells it",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "BELL-SCHIMMEL",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BELL-SCHIMMEL.txt:7",
  "quote": "With its acquisition of Schimmel & Co. in 1993",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Schimmel & Co.. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "Miltitz: Gildemeister and Hoffmann (1900) already describe the firm’s roses grown near Miltitz; the Neue Deutsche Biographie dates the move of the works there to 1901. Both can hold: the plantation first, the works later.",
   "sources": [
    "GILD1900",
    "NDB-FRITZSCHE"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "links": {},
 "copy": {
  "lede": "A Leipzig house of essential oils and synthetics, founded in 1829 as Spahn & Büttner; its works moved to Miltitz in 1901, and it published a report on the oil trade from 1877.",
  "body": [
   "It grew roses at Miltitz from Bulgarian bushes brought in 1888 and distilled their oil; it made heliotropin from 1879. The firm commissioned Gildemeister and Hoffmann’s The Volatile Oils, one of the sources read here."
  ]
 },
 "source_licence": {
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  "classes": [
   "CC BY-NC-ND",
   "CC0",
   "no licence stated",
   "open government licence"
  ],
  "commercial_use": "facts and short quotes only",
  "single_source": null,
  "licence": null
 },
 "wikidata_qid": {
  "value": "Q2235962",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q2235962.json:2",
  "quote": "\"qid\": \"Q2235962\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Schimmel & Co.)"
 }
}