100 years of Jupiter kitchen appliances - About us
Since 1921, our goal has been to make healthy and fresh cooking suitable for everyday use and sustainable. The focus is on devices for chopping food. In keeping with the motto "Eat what I know" and "Tradition", we want to support you with our products in leading a healthy and varied lifestyle.
Jupiter products make a valuable contribution to the conscious handling of food. Sustainable and careful handling of raw materials plays a major role in this. With our products, you can process food completely and thus make your contribution for tomorrow today.
We develop our products with years of expertise and according to the highest quality standards. Each product therefore offers universal applications in your kitchen.
About the history of Jupiter kitchen appliances
In 1921, canning millionaire Wilhelm Leibbrand realized that the days of the glorious canning factory were coming to an end. The entrepreneur made a decision and developed the first vertically operating hand-held universal machine made of aluminum sand casting. As a trained chef, Leibbrand was a man of practice and knew exactly what he was doing. With Swabian diligence and inspired by the desire to build on his old successes, he founded the Jupiter company in 1921. The first kitchen appliances were sold at trade fairs and housewife exhibitions - a thorny path accompanied by inflation and the economic crisis. Nevertheless, Wilhelm Leibbrand was able to record steady growth.
Wilhelm Leibbrand was only 56 years old. He had already put the Jupiter company into the hands of the next generation. In 1930, Otto Kurz joined the company to begin his commercial apprenticeship. The Jupiter company's representatives undertook extensive sales trips - from Alsace-Lorraine to Breslau or from Hamburg to Garmisch - and helped Jupiter kitchen appliances to make a name for themselves.
The Second World War also brought the development of the Jupiter company to a standstill. Armament orders had to be accepted. In 1949, Clara Kurz and her husband, who had returned from being a prisoner of war, were able to continue expanding the company. The huge backlog of demand from people and a lucky hand enabled Jupiter kitchen appliances to rise again.
The range of products on offer grew, but it is thanks to Swabian persistence that even today – 100 years after the company was founded – the devices that have been part of Jupiter Küchenmaschinen GmbH's portfolio for many years are the ones that make the company successful: meat grinders and choppers, food slicers and juicers.