The Industrieverband Schneidwaren und Bestecke (IVSB) was formed by the merger of the Fachverband Schneidwarenindustrie (FSI), founded in Solingen in 1946, and the Gesamtverband Besteck-Industrie (GBI), founded in Wiesbaden in 1966, on May 4, 1971. The IVSB was integrated into the structure of the commercial economy as a federal trade association within the Wirtschaftsverband Eisen Blech Metallindustrie im BDI (Iron Sheet Metal Industry Association). In 2002 the company merged with the Verband Haushalts-, Küchen- und Tafelgeräte to form the Industrieverband Schneid- und Haushaltswaren (IVSH). The local manufacturers' associations of the cutlery industry can be regarded as historical forerunners of the trade association of the cutlery industry. After a strike on 13 May 1891 the association of all factory owners in Solingen was founded. Initially, it included the Tafelmesserfabrikantenverein, the Scherenfabrikantenverein, the Taschen- und Federmesserfabrikantenverein and the Gabelfabrikantenverein. After the renaming to Verband der Fabrikantenvereine Solingen on 4 May 1900, the fifth member was the razor manufacturer association. Outside of this umbrella organization stood the Waffenfabrikantenverein and the various clubs for the owners of the fights. After 27 July 1903 they organised themselves as sub-associations in the newly formed association of employers in the Solingen district. This local employers' umbrella organisation was open to all branches of industry, in contrast to the Association of Manufacturers' Associations Solingen, which was limited to the cutlery industry and changed its name again to the Association of Manufacturers' Associations Solingen in 1907. Since 1909, Dr. Hornung has managed both the AGV's and the "Verband's" business. In 1911, the membership of the two associations was demarcated, and the AGV transferred the steel goods companies to the Solinger Fabrikantenvereine association. This personal union in the management of the two trade associations existed until 1926. On 12 April 1922, the local trade associations were reorganised according to economic, technical and socio-political criteria with the founding of the Employers' Association of the Upper District of Solingen. The new AGV acted primarily as a local collective bargaining partner, no longer taking on any trade association tasks. In addition to the AGV, the Solinger Fabrikantenvereine association and the Solinger Schlägereibesitzervereine association continued to exist as independent economic organisations under the umbrella of the Eisen Stahlwaren-Industriebund (ESTI), founded on 14.6.1919 as a "representative of the entire iron and steel industry in the organisation of the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie". The ESTI with its headquarters in Elberfeld was active in the Bergisch-Märkischen region (Wuppertal, Remscheid, Solingen, Velbert, Hagen). With the ESTI, Solingen entered into a relationship with the umbrella organisation of the iron processing industry and thus with the RDI. AGV and ESTI worked so closely together in Solingen that they maintained joint management with two managing directors of equal rank, Dr. Oskar Bachteler and Dr. Willi Großmann. The smashing of the trade unions on 2 May 1933 was followed from 19 May 1933 by the fixing of collective wages by the "trustee of labour". The Solingen Employers' Association was also suddenly without function as a collective bargaining partner and was finally dissolved by the National Socialists on 22 January 1934. The mergers of the companies now concentrated on the specialist organisation. The umbrella organisation in Solingen was the ESTI with its three main professional associations, the Solingen Steelware Manufacturers Association, the Solingen Racketeering Owners Associations Association and the Razor Blade Industry Association (founded on 3.10.1925, 1930 Association of Razor Blade Manufacturers). The ESTI from Solingen was finally integrated into the DAF under the name "Fachgruppe Schneidwarenindustrie der Wirtschaftsgruppe Eisen- Stahl und Blechwaren" and functioned as an economic policy organisation covering the entire cutlery industry of the German Reich. Gustav Grünwald from Argenta (Düsseldorf) was the first head of the Cutlery and Cutlery Division based in Solingen. He was followed by Franz Buchenau in Heinr. Böker and Dr. Walter Müller in Pränafawerke. After the end of the Second World War, on 6 November 1945, the EBM Economic Association received permission from the occupying forces to reestablish itself. Under the chairmanship of Kurt Peres the Fachvereinigung Schneidwarenindustrie was formed. The first domicile was the former Gräfrather Rathaus, then the Fachvereinigung found its accommodation on Albrechtstraße. From 1.4. 1946 the new name was Fachverband Schneidwarenindustrie. Dr. Bachteler was able to resume his full-time activities for the association on 1 November 1946. In 1953 Bachteler became managing director of the AGV at the same time. Dr. Oskar Bachteler died on 17.3.1961. During this period, Paul Ad. Schmidt in company Müller
