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Vollmer GmbH & Co.KG or Vollmer is a German manufacturer of model buildings and accessories for use with model railroads.
The Vollmer Company was founded in 1946 by Wolfram K. Vollmer (1924–2010) and initially manufactured metal collar buttons. The German currency reform of June 1948 and subsequent economic growth led to a demand for plastic collar buttons and the company introduced plastic injection technology. Vollmer also began to develop plastic model railway accessories and presented a patented catenary system for HO scale model toy trains at the 1949 Nuremberg Toy Fair. By 1954, the company had begun production of HO-scale model houses. In the 1970s Vollmer had a large enterprise that included American models as well as European models.
Vollmer GmbH is based in Stuttgart- Zuffenhausen and produces an extensive range of houses, model railway and industrial buildings, vehicles, catenary and general accessories in G, H0, TT, N and Z scales.
In 2014, Susanne Vollmer, director of the company, announced that the company will stop production and shut down business during 2014.
In summer 2014 Vollmer and Viessmann announced that Viessmann acquire the license in the brand Vollmer and that from September 2014 the Vollmer products will be available for the market.
Vollmer is a family name. Notable people with the name include:
- Andy Vollmer, former SEC General Councel
- Antje Vollmer, (born 1943), German politician
- August Vollmer, former police chief of Berkeley, California
- Clyde Vollmer, former major league baseball player
- Dana Vollmer, American swimmer
- Gerhard Vollmer, German physicist and philosopher
- Gustavo J. Vollmer, former World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
- Heinrich Vollmer, German small-arms designer
- Henry Vollmer, American politician
- Jana Vollmer, German former beach volleyball player
- Joan Vollmer "Beat generation" poet
- Jürgen Vollmer, German photographer
- Richard W. Vollmer, Jr., former United States federal judge
- Sebastian Vollmer, American football player
- Tiffany Vollmer, American voice actress