175 years of KERN & SOHN 250 of balance manufacture in the Sauter family-owned company A success story in eight generations
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175 years of KERN & SOHN
250 of balance manufacture in the Sauter
family-owned company
A success story in eight generations
1
Eight generations –
what a passion!
Albert Sauter
Managing Director
Albert Sauter
*1975
Martin Sauter
*1938 Wir haben in diesem Jahr einiges zu feiern !
Paul Walter Else 250 years of balance manufacture in the Sauter family,
Sauter Sauter Sauter
*1899 - † 1944 *1908 - † 1944 *1902 - † 1965 175 years of Kern & Sohn
Gustav Sauter
*1870 - † 1954 It is very rare to find a company with a In spite of all the highs and lows, balance
comparable long tradition. The virtues such manufacturing has maintained a stable
Albert Sauter as competence and handcra!ed quality, but course – over 250 years.
*1846 - † 1913 also time and again blows of fate, which
create an exciting script over the decades. Throughout the world we could only find
Gottlieb Kern Auguste
And it was the same for us. The fate of the one other family, which, like us, had been
*1819 - † 1886 Sauter
company hung by a thread on more than continuously involved with balance manu-
Jakob Matthäus one occasion. Several times, an untimely facture for such a long time.
Sauter III Sauter death in the Sauter family shook the suc-
*1808 - † 1844 *1818 - † 1846 cession of the company. Even worldwide we could not find any work-
shops or companies who, like us, have been
Simon Sauter
*1784 - †1831 For one generation, the namesake of our manufacturing precision balances
company – Gottlieb Kern even stepped in. continuously for 200 years.
Johann Jakob Sauter I This is how the KERN brand was created in
*1743 - † 1805 1844, and his successor Councillor of
Commerce Albert Sauter was either not
This is why we may be the oldest
able to or did not want to change it. manufacturer of precision balances
in the world.
2
Philipp Matthäus Hahn,
Pastor and Engineer from
Württemberg,
*1739 - † 1790. 1767
Builder of astronomic The Hahn balan-
clocks, calculating machi- ce made of wood
nes and balances. He was
the pioneer for the future
Martin Sauter balance industry in our
Senior Director region.
Already quite strange – the history of the foundation of the company started with a young village pastor …
“What are you doing there – technical wizardry has General hydrostatic balance
no place in a rectory!” from 1774
Cautionary words 250 years ago from the ded to be made of iron, then you would be turn your attention to work out how we can
church authorities, to the Swabian Pastor able to weigh 100 pounds and more. Now determine the quality of the wine right at the
Philipp Matthäus Hahn in the remote Swabi- it’s the turn of our village blacksmith and time of the harvest.” In the small area of
an mountain village of Onstmettingen (Alb- Hahn employee - Johann Jakob Sauter Württemberg not only did they work hard at
stadt-Onstmettingen today). Because he I. 1769 and it arrived, the Hahn balance drinking the wine, they also worked hard had never been seen in Southern Germany
was in the process of building an astrono- made of iron, which you could use to weigh before! This marvel in precision sank in the
mic clock, which was the most intricate and up to 200 pounds. A foundation stone for turmoil of the Napoleonic wars and was al-
beautiful in all of Württemberg. Amazingly weighing – the inclination scale – was born. most forgotten. But the main concept never
enough, it was the village blacksmith, my It had a long life. You will know it as the dial completely disappeared, our masterpiece
four times great grandfather, Johann Jakob scale in the corner shop. gradually found a new lease of life as
Sauter I who helped him. a pharmaceutical and chemical balance.
From that point balance manufacture
With his precise balance, Hahn measured the
It was through this that the pastor has never left our Sauter family. Someone who understood this very early
specific weight of the unfermented wine must
invented something else: The sons followed the fathers. on was my three times great grandfather
An automatic balance for tradesmen. to sell it as an export. Even in those days it Simon Sauter, son of the village bla-
The weight can be read directly from the A few years later: In the meantime was a quality issue. After a long search, in cksmith we already know, Johann Jakob
pointer, a complete innovation. The first Pastor Philipp Matthäus Hahn became 1774 he found the solution in a small, extre- I. From 1820 the moment arrived when
products were made completely of wood, famous from both a theological as well as mely precise beam balance with a sensitivity Simon was finding an emerging customer
but their load capacity of up to 20 pounds a technical point of view. One day the call of a 50th part of pin, i.e. almost a thou- base for his “fine weighing beams”, today
was somewhat modest. The balance nee- of a scholar caught his attention: “Why not sandth of a gramme. This level of accuracy we call them precision balances.
3
1769
Johann Jakob Sauter I
A clever village blacksmith became
a balance manufacturer
You already know our ancestor Johann
Jakob Sauter I from the previous story
Wooden
lathe from
around 1770
Every balance was a one-off and adapted to
suit the customers’ requirements. He was
*1743 - † 1805 of the founding of the company. He was a the first balance manufacturer in the Sauter
competent blacksmith and forged automa- family.
First generation tic balances for his pastor, graded the scale
and adjusted to the correct weight.
1769
Hahn’s iron balance by
Johann Jakob Sauter I
1768
Home clock manufactured
Everything under one roof: Living – Workshop – Agriculture
by Johann Jakob Sauter I
4
His sons became top engineers
At the same time, Johann Jakob Sauter I Sauter II and Johannes Sauter were forced Just one son, Simon Sauter,
became a clock maker and precision to emigrate. Their outstanding achieve- – remained faithful to his
engineer and trained three sons to become ments in fine mechanics were in Sweden hometown of Onstmettingen.
excellent engineers. With the Napoleonic and France. An enormous amount of
wars Württemberg became noticeably know-how was lost to the hometown.
impoverished and his sons Johann Jakob
Around the year 1810
Chemical balance, built by son Johann Jakob Sauter II,
Stockholm – for the Swedish chemist, Bercelius
Around the year 1800
Calculating machines manufactured
Around the year 1810
by Johann Jakob Sauter II, Stockholm
Astronomic planetarium
manufactured by Johann
Jakob Sauter II
1808
A technically-gifted family: Astronomic globe clock,
manufactured by Johannes Sauter, Strasbourg
5
1820
Simon Sauter
The daredevil – the man with the
“fine weighing beams”.
After 1812 the dreadful Napoleonic time
slowly drew to a close, trade and commerce
1820
Lathe of a precision
engineer
clock as a masterpiece, which proved his
skill as a perfect clock maker and mechani-
*1784 - †1831 recovered in small steps. Simon Sauter cal specialist. Around the year 1820 he was
took over the workshop of his father, Johann ready and offered “fine weighing beams”
Second generation Jakob I and became the standard bearer of through wholesalers and trading companies.
a new business. First he built an elaborate
Around the year
1825 Clocks made
by Simon Sauter
1820
Table clock with many
functions: Date display,
ringing of bells for going to
church and devout hymns Simon Sauter’s
sounding from a musical home in
6 cylinder. Onstmettingen
Simon Sauter’s hymnbook
with dedication from 1814:
The super accurate balance from Pastor The remote village of Onstmettingen “If you buy iron and wire and do not forge
Hahn from 1774 is recreated. The times became the nucleus of an unexpected with it, then you are not a blacksmith; if you
were good, which meant that he was soon speciality. It is almost a miracle, that in this have a book and don’t read from it, – and
able to dedicate himself, with his three mountain village, located far away from don’t follow what you have read, then the
sons, to balance manufacture, or more universities and long before industrialisa- result will be p – ?
precisely, precision balance manufacture. tion, such precise balances were made. (punishment) Read, pray and follow“
Around the year 1810
Hahn’s balance in
wall-mounted version 1825
Pharmaceutical balance
stands with hand-held
Around the year 1825 scale for the manufacture
Hahn’s balance in of medicines
wall-mounted version
for the mail from
Thurn & Taxis.
um 1830
Präzisionswaage. Dieses Konstruktions-
prinzip bleibt über 200 Jahre aktuell
7
1831
Jakob Sauter III Matthäus Sauter
In spite of a good order situation, there were hard
times within the company
The precision balance business thrived,
two sons of Simon, Jakob III and Mat-
The business had no leader, passing it on
within the Sauter family seemed to be im-
*1808 - † 1844 *1818 - † 1846 thäus took over the business. Tragedy of possible, at first. There was a risk of having
fate: both died one after the other, neither to shut down. The fate of the workshop
Third generation having reached the age of forty. hung by a thread.
Around the year 1840, first workshop of
Jakob III and Matthäus Sauter
Auguste Sauter, the widow of the deceased
Matthäus Sauter, mechanical specialist, asked the
town council of Onstmettingen for permission to
end the period of mourning early, so that she could
get engaged to Gottlieb Kern. Excerpt from the town
council minutes of 15 July 1846.
Around the year 1840,
workshop equipment in
the balance museum,
Balingen
“Many orders were placed shortly before the death
of your husband and from his bed he gave the neces-
sary instructions to his assistants for the work to be
finished, and this is how it has happened that some
of the work is finished and some of it is started”
Tare balance for pharmacists, exhibited by
Johann Jakob Sauter III at the Art and Precision balance around the year 1840, in
8 Industry exhibition in Stuttgart in 1842 First price list from 1843 glass housing with milligramme sensitivity
1844 Gottlieb Kern
The brand KERN stems from Gottlieb Kern
Now it was the time for Gottlieb Kern.
He came into the Sauter workshop as a
employees, Gottlieb Kern was already a large
company in Württemberg from a tax point of
*1819 - † 1886 newcomer and married the widow of view. Serial production of precision balances
Matthäus Sauter and became an attentive began. The GOTTLIEB KERN & SOHN brand
stepfather to Albert Sauter, the newborn name was known at home and abroad.
Gottlieb Kern with wife Auguste, son. The workshops grew, in 1863 with 9
previously Sauter
1863
Gottlieb Kern (sitting at the
front) with his engineers
Around the year 1860,
Analytical balance for
delicate weighing
procedures
1847
Balance on the Béringer
principle, so-called
1851
English balance, first
Gottlieb Kern created the first German letter
commercial product
scale, at the same time as the first stamp ap-
from Gottlieb Kern
peared in the Kingdom of Württemberg. The
principle of the dial scale from Pastor Hahn
was unmistakeable.
Invoice from
26 June 1874
9
1870
1890, Albert Sauter,
Councillor of Commerce
From the workshop to the factory
Albert Sauter entered the business in red for new machines was high, it makes
Albert Sauter 1870. He got on well with his stepfather, Gottlieb Kern proclaim: “Albert – we’ll end
*1846 - † 1913 Gottlieb Kern. The company name was up going to auction”. But this didn’t happen,
changed to Gottl. Kern & Sohn (actually KERN, with 22 employees became one of
Fourth generation stepson). He brought in mechanisation the largest precision balance manufacturers
wherever he could. The investment requi- in Germany.
New business premises and home, 1885/86 in walking 1904, Councillor of Commerce, Albert Sauter (third from
distance of the Ebingen railway station. The production the right) was elected to the committee of the Chamber of
building extends to the rear. Commerce with the largest number of votes.
The wild year of 1871. The old Württemberg weight
units such as the Lot and pound became obsolete.
1880
The modern metric units with gramme and kilo-
Pharmaceutical tare balance
gramme gained legal status. Orders flooded in.
with Aesculapius scale
1874 Gottlieb Kern and Albert Sauter were overworked -
First balance they could only fulfil half of all the orders.
catalogue
10with wife Julie Sauter,
née Landenberger
1885, it was now time for the move from successors in the Kern line. Albert Sauter
Onstmettingen to the new premises in neig- was not only a business man, but also
hbouring Ebingen, Albstadt-Ebingen today, one of the most active citizens in the
as there was a new railway there. After the town of Ebingen. In 1902 he was awar-
death of Gottlieb Kern, Albert Sauter was ded the title of Councillor of Commerce
the sole owner once again, as there were no by the Württemberg King.
1910
Opel type 6/14
(14 = 14 PS)
First car in the Sauter
family.
First driver: Amazingly,
Frida Jung née Sauter,
the daughter of Albert
Sauter
Inscription on the
wall in Albert Sauter’s
garage
“God as the leader,
luck as a companion.”
around the year 1900, a gas engine ran the individual machines in the production
hall through a transmission on the ceiling by means of leather straps
111902Gustav Sauter
Trying times were on the horizon
German industrialisation gained tremendous
momentum, balance manufacturers sprang
1896, Gustav Sauter
with wife Helene,
née Keller
the Reutlingen Chamber of Commerce wro-
te in 1902: “There is nothing else we can
*1870 - † 1954 up all over the place. Everyone was under- do other than hope that an angel comes
cutting everyone else so terribly that even down from heaven to help.” Macabre
Fith generation the customers urged the manufacturers to enough, it wasn’t an angel that came to
take more care with quality. In desperation help, but the First World War.
1888
Gustav Sauter, member
of one of the first cycling
associations, “Germania”
in Stuttgart
1895
Helene Sauter with
sister-in-law Frida Jung,
née Sauter
1921, Family of Gustav Sauter 1904, entrepreneurial family of Gustav Sauter with staff
121923, printing their own banknotes
helped get over the worst times
during the period of inflation
The military discovered the balance industry inflation which followed. To pay the wages tories for the first time. Tariff partnership
and ordered hospital scales, powder balan- he printed the money on packing paper was born, there were months of strikes and
ces, and eventually rifle and detonator parts. himself. lockouts about standard wages. With the
8-hour day which was won, working time
Gustav Sauter survived the turmoil of the After the war it was a new era: In 1918 was reduced from 48 hours.
First World War and the troubled times of women gained entry to the balance fac-
1900
Exhibition cabinet for
global exhibitions
November 1918, Union meeting in Ebingen
1915
Powder balance for automatic
1924
filling of powder to a precise
GOTTL. KERN & SOHN,
weight
picture from the sales
catalogue at the time
131932
Paul Sauter Walter Sauter
Construction, war and a
bad ending
Right in the middle of the worst economic
crisis in the WeimarRepublic, sons Paul and
Paul Sauter
were used intensively. But soon the fine me-
chanical businesses had to be converted to
Walter Sauter
*1899 - † 1944 *1908 - † 1944 Walter took over the succession from their making military equipment – whether they
father Gustav Sauter. The commercial world wanted to or not. In 1944 both company
Sixth generation seemed to stand still – KERN’s turnover fell owners were killed by an air raid on the
by 50%. After 1933, the few years of peace company.
Selection from the catalogue of 1933. 1944, Administrative and
The leading product, analytical balance in glass cabinet residence buildings after
the air raid
1938
Walter Sauter with
Mercedes 170 V
1940
Walter and
Ruth Sauter
141944
Else Sauter After this catastrophe, the sister of the
two brothers, Else, made every effort to
period in the 1950s which was so prosperous,
passed GOTTL. KERN & SOHN by. Businesses
*1902 - † 1965 make sure that the business continued, were in decline and survived on their capital.
as she wanted to keep it for the children With a baking and diet scale, there was an
of Walter Sauter. This was a success to attempt at a fresh start.
an extent, however the economic growth Else Sauter
1945
Carbide lamp, made
from the base of a
balance column
1945
GOTTL. KERN & SOHN
employees kept the
company afloat by ma-
nufacturing tool kits for 1954
plasterers Diet and baking balance –
manufactured for Dr. Oetker
151960
Martin Sauter
KERN is back in the game
Martin Sauter, at the age of 22, son of
the deceased Walter Sauter took on a task
ready for mechanical balances and business
started to pick up again. But the joy was
*1938 which was not straightforward. It didn’t look shortlived, in the 1970s the mechanical age
good, the product range was completely fell victim the age of electronics, a painful
Seventh generation outdated and needed to be fully re-vamped. break. Once again, a fresh start, which suc-
A!er hard years of development, KERN was ceeded with the help of globalisation.
Around the year 1976
Entrepreneur Martin
Sauter with son Albert
on his arm, together
? with Lord Erwin
Zizmann in the labo-
ratory
Around the year 1970
Assembly line for
balance assembly of
model 110
1977
Anniversary celebrat-
ion. From left to right:
Council chairman -
Johannes Klaiber,
Robert Ströhlin
celebrating his 25 ye-
Aerial photograph from
ars’ service, Managing
1980 – KERN manu-
Director, Martin Sauter
factured right in the
middle of the town of
Albstadt-Ebingen up to
1999
161985
Entrepreneurial family Martin and
Marijke Sauter in the inner courtyard
of the company in Albstadt-Ebingen
1994
Martin and wife Dr. Marijke Sauter,
née Heimke
In addition, along came high-quality metrolo- her abilitysen nach besten Kräften unter-
gical test services such as the calibration of stützt. The Ebingen factory created by the
balances and weights (DKD). KERN was then great grandfather and grandfather, in the
growing substantially and Martin Sauter was middle of the Ebingen residential area beco-
supported by his wife Dr. Marijke Sauter in mes too small and so, in the year 2000 the
sales and financial accounting to the best of factory moved to a new building in Balingen.
Top-pan precision balan-
ce from 1977, the first
electronic generation of
KERN 810
Around the year
1965 Mid-pan
analytical balance,
model 110
Since 2000, KERN in der Ziegelei in Balingen-Frommern
1970 from 1974, the new European OIML weights: Together
Sliding weight with the Physikalisch Technischen Bundesanstalt
precision balances (PTB - German metrology institute) pioneering work
KERN 150 with the introduction of the most accurate Class E2
172003
Albert Sauter
Heading for new shores
At the beginning of the new millennium,
Albert Sauter, the oldest son of Martin
In 2008 there was further diversification
and an impressive range of medical balan-
*1975 Sauter, came into the business. During ces was launched. Six years after that,
these years the classic precision balance a new, promising segment was introduced:
Eighth generation range was expanded significantly to include Microscopes and refractometers.
industrial balances.
KERN management team
and others on the occa-
Wenn Kraft auf sion of the retirement of
Präzision trifft …
the long-serving works
manager Elmar Hauschel
Since 2014, microscopes
and refractometers have
been available through
KERN Optics
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The start of the SAUTER Medical balances
force-measuring device complement KERN’s
range line of business
18Investment in the future: KERN in the anniversary
2013, Albert Sauter year of 2019, with building extension and state-of-
with wife Jessica Sauter, née Kümmel the-art, fully-automated high-bay warehouse
Once again, space was getting tight at With the founding of SAUTER GmbH, Albert
KERN & SOHN, so in 2014-2015 the site in Sauter re-invigorated the traditional family
Balingen was significant extended, with the name and, under the KERN umbrella, offe-
addition of a multi-function building and a red measuring devices for force, hardness
high-bay warehouse with 100,000 storage and layer thickness.
locations.
11.06.2016, Sauter family tour with the Balingen
mayor on a works open day
2014 – 2015, Construction site in der Ziegelei in Balingen-Frommern 2018, Albert and Jessica Sauter with their daughters
19Präzisionswaage mit DAkkS
calibration
DAkkS-Kalibrierung nach DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025 für
since 2014
Waagen, Masse, Kraft, Festkörpervolumen, Festkörperdichte test device for
crane scales
Another little anniversary:
25 years of the calibration laboratory at KERN & SOHN Ensuring correct position and database
supported management of test equip-
The beginning of 1944 was not easy: DAkkS calibration of balances Installation qualification (IQ) ment by KERN
Clearing the high hurdle of accreditation in Commissioning of the balance including the We will take responsibility for your comple-
accordance with DIN EN 45001 (today DIN Our calibration services range from correct documentation. te documentation including the reminder
EN ISO/ EC 17025) in the German calibrat- high-precision analytical balances through service for recalibrations.
ion service DKD (today DAkkS = Deutsche to floor scales for 6,000 kg. With crane Maintenance qualification (MQ) Ensuring
Akkreditierungsstelle (German accreditati- scales we calibrate up to 50,000 kg. that maintenance is out professionally from Short calibration times
on body)), was an important step for us, as Together with the calibration a technical point of view and is properly at the KERN factory, 4 days, express
the benefit for our customers is so great: documented and ensuring accurate measu- service 48 hours
Together with the calibration rement.
• DAkkS calibration certificates open we can offer you a wide range KERN will also carry out the complete
doors, with no ifs or buts, to Quality of further services: Operating qualification (OQ) Checking all test service at your premises.
Management Systems such as, for the parameters which determine the per-
example, the DIN EN ISO 9000 family of Usage accuracy (process accuracy) formance of the measurement process.
standards. The user should be certain that he has This also includes user training.
• For DAkkS-tested measuring devices, you taken the influencing factors at the location
can be sure that the measuring results of measurement and when carrying out the Performance qualification (PQ)
fully comply with internationally-recogni- measurement into account properly. The PQ is the documented proof that, in the
sed regulations. selected application, the balance or weig-
• In this way, the metrological require- Minimum weight of sample hing system is working as intended.
ments specified in a certified company’s What is the lightest item you can weigh on
Der KERN Kalibrierservice
management system for test equipment your balance, while still achieving accurate
ist markenunabhängig
are fulfilled. and reliable weighing results?
20Robot-assisted Compressive testing for
weighing comparators force (Newton) up to 5 kN
for rapid, accurate
calibration of weights
DAkkS calibration of weights We can come to your premises and calibra- Factory calibrations Factory calibration of torque wrench
te your test weights (class M1 to M3) from (ISO calibrations too) test devices.
We calibrate to all international OIML 10 kg up to 2,500 kg with ourmobile MA- When being used, torque wrenches or
weight classes: E1, E2, F1, F2, M1, M2, M3. COS calibration system and will generate Not all calibrations must or are able to be screwdrivers must guarantee the specified
Our calibration service ranges from 1 mg the DakkS calibration certificates on-site. carried out in accordance with DAkkS, in torque. These are calibrated with a torque
up to 2,500kg. many cases a factory calibration is suffi- wrench test device. The factory calibration
Qualifications for any weights: cient. Factory calibration certificates meet certificate for this proves the measuring
In addition we offer calibration of free nomi- international standards and are proof of a accuracy of the test device.
nal values, e.g. Newton or special weights. • Selection of the appropriate test weight sophisticated, trusted calibration.
Together with for the balance The calibration range goes from 1 Nm up to
• Reconditioning and adjustment of old Factory calibration of the temperature 200 Nm (Newtonmeter)
Together with the calibration customer weights in moisture analysers.
we can offer you a wide range of • Short calibration times: 4 working days, These are balances with drying devices Factory calibration of devices for mea-
further services: express service in 48 hours for solid samples which contain moisture. suring layer thickness
Maintaining the correct temperature in the for lacquer coatings and metallic coatings.
Volume determination for the most DAkkS calibration for tension and drying area is an important criteria for the The calibration range goes up to a wall
accurate Class E1, as a weight experiences compression forces results of a moisture analysis procedure to thickness of 2000 micrometer.
small, but measurable, air buoyancy. be meaningful. Calibration of your moisture
For mobile force-measuring devices, analyser will be carried out at the KERN & Factory calibration of hardness testing
Testing the magnetic properties (sensi- calibration ranges in Newtons from 50 N up Sohn factory. devices and hardness comparison pla-
tivity and polarisation) for weight material to 5 kN tes in accordance with UCI, Shore, Leeb
to avoid measuring errors from magnetic
fields. On-site calibration with the MACOS
calibration system from KERN.
212019 Typical KERN advantages:
• W
KERN – a powerful partner by your side
e always have more than 100,000
Free of charge from KERN:
• We will build your own personal webshop
For many years, KERN has been certified
and accredited in accordance with inter-
balances in stock • You save – we will hold the stock for you national metrological standards.
An impressive mark of confidence: • Ordered today – on its way tomorrow. • Tailor-made marketing support
Since the year 2000, over 2.2 million • KERN hire purchase looks a!er your cash • Support with digital system solutions
balances sold • Up-to-date information on availability from the KERN Centre of Expertise
System solutions Precision balances Analytical balances Moisture analysers Bench scales Price-computing Counting balances/
Industry 4.0 Counting systems
Parcel scales/ Floor scales/ Display devices/ Hanging Scales/ Pallet truck scales Test weights Medical scales
Platform scales Pallet scales/ Platforms/ Crane scales
Drive-through scales Weighing bridges
22“Our customers are the key to our
longevity in this industry
We serve our customers and learn from them. This wealth of
experience is a precious asset, which we will continue to maintain
carefully in the future. As a medium-sized, owner-managed business
no-one can stop us in our endeavours in this area.“
Albert Sauter & Martin Sauter
DakkS calibration service Microscopes
(DKD) and verification
service
Force-measuring devices Refractometers
23KERN & SOHN GmbH
Balances, Test weights, Microscopes. DAkkS Calibration laboratory
Ziegelei 1
72336 Balingen
Germany
info@kern-sohn.com
www.kern-sohn.com
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