Kufner family crest
Family History

Family Kufner , since 1595

A crest carved in wood, a line of generations, and a family motto that has outlasted every one of them: "Bleib Stan — Sorgen Zergan", stay steadfast, and your worries will disappear.

Five generations of the Kufner family have shared the same instinct: when the way things were done didn't work anymore, they didn't wait for someone else to fix it, they invented their own way through. New materials, new machines, new ways of working that others said couldn't be done. That same instinct, to build something better rather than accept what already existed, runs through every generation, alongside the will to keep going when circumstances made it hard.

1862

Bartholomäus Kufner fought for his ideals as a young man riding with Garibaldi, then returned home and built, from nothing, a business ahead of its time, among the first in his city to embrace new industrial technology.

1903

Josef Adolf Kufner, an engineer by training, found a better way to make an old product and changed an entire industry's standard in the process.

1930s–40s

Georg Kufner invented a new way of working that made his products lighter and more accessible than anything before them, and helped the family survive the upheaval of the Second World War, when most of its factories were destroyed and everything had to be rebuilt from nothing.

1950

Georg & Joseph Kufner were barely into their twenties when they had to abandon their studies overnight after their father's sudden death, and Joseph went on to pioneer a completely new way of making garments, dismissed by many as impossible until it became the new standard.

1990s

Dominik Kufner joined his father and developed a new generation of the family's core innovation, learning that a good idea is always met with doubt first, and that only those who keep pushing ever see it through.

2009

Dominik Kufner & Sofia Cinel brought two traditions together and started again from nothing, moving the family's inventive streak into entirely new territory.

Today

Dominik & Sofia Kufner, and their children Joseph and Matthias, carry that same instinct forward, the drive to build something new in careers and pursuits of their own. In this family, that's simply what you do.

"Bleib Stan — Sorgen Zergan." Stay steadfast, and your worries will disappear. It's more than a line carved into wood three centuries ago. It's a family that has never waited for the perfect conditions to build something new. Joseph and Matthias carry that same instinct into whatever comes next.