In 1898 VS was founded as Vereinigte Schulbankfabriken GmbH. As a full-service supplier VS
now creates intelli -gent furniture and integrative solutions for the education sector as well
as for living and working spaces in offices. This book and its many images take you on a
journey through the company's 125 years of history. It offers an overview of the
industrialization of furniture manufac - turing in Germany spanning the German Empire World
War I the German Reich the Great Depression the Nazis in Germany World War II and the
time after the war from the reunification of Germany to the present day. At the same time
this company history doubles as a cultural history of the field of education as well as its
furniture
