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  1. Dassler was married to Käthe until his death from heart failure in 1978. They had 5 children. In 1973, their son Horst Dassler founded Arena, a producer of swimming equipment. Käthe Dassler died on 31 December 1984. Posthumous. After Adolf Dassler's death, his son Horst and his wife, Käthe, took over the management. Horst died on 9 April 1987.

  2. Katharina Martz, daughter of the renowned shoe mould producer Franz Martz, meets Adi Dassler 1932 in Primasens, where he attends an apprenticeship at the Shoe Technical School. They married two years later.

  3. Adolf’s wife, Kathe, became more involved in the business and played a crucial role in the success of the company. Adidas prospered firmly. Adolf and Kathe developed relationship with sports personalities around the world due to which Adolf further enhanced his understanding of needs of different sports.

  4. In 1948, after over 30 years of working together, Adolf and Rudolf abruptly shuttered Geda and separated. Two reasons for the feud that are cited are strife between their respective wives, who did not get along, yet were forced to live in the same villa, and Rudolf's increasing suspicion that his brother Adi was behind his conscription into the ...

  5. Oct 24, 2022 · Initially, during World War II, the Dassler factory continued producing track shoes, but in 1941, the Nazis ordered it to produce 10,500 pairs of shoes a month for the regime. Things were not good at home, either. For one, the brothers and their wives all lived together, including Adi's wife who was just a teenager.

  6. Adi Dassler and Fritz Zehlein - two true athletic companions fascinated with numerous sporting disciplines such as track and field, soccer, boxing, ice-hockey, and javelin, as well as skiing and ski jumping.

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  8. Nov 2, 2020 · They started a relationship and were married in 1934 after which Käthe moved to the town of Herzogenaurach. They had five children, Horst (1936), Inge (1938), Karin (1941), Brigitte (1946), and the youngest daughter, Sigrid (1953). Horst Dassler went on to run adidas alongside Käthe after Adolf’s death.

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