Veritas Sewing Machines

The history of Veritas sewing machines originates with Clemens Muller who founded his sewing machine factory in Dresden in 1855. On 1st October 1894 he registered the trade name of VERITAS with the Imperial Patent Office. After Clemens Muller died in 1902, his factory became a family owned private company, before converting to a public company in 1918.

After World War II Dresden was in East Germany (DDR) and the company was taken into state ownership. It was merged with the former Seidel & Naumann factory which was also in Dresden. The new name was VEB Mechanik Schreibmaschinenwerke Dresden.

In 1955 the Veritas name was transferred to the former Singer factory, VEB Nahmaschinenwerk Wittenberge. The Naumann name was also still used on some models. During this period the Veritas machines obtained a good reputation for innovation and for being well manufactured. During the 1980's production was generally in the range 300,000 to 350,000 machines per year. Total Veritas production passed the 5 million mark on 6 October 1933.

After the reunification of Germany, the factory was closed in 1991. Approx. 7.5 million machines had been produced at the Wittenberge factory during the period from 1945 until its closure.

Following the closure, the rights to the Veritas and the Naumann names were purchased by investors who also owned the Singer & Pfaff names. They didn't actively use the names, and eventually in 2002 they sold the names to the Bernina subsidiary, Crown Technics Gmbh. Crown relaunched the Veritas brand in 2016 with a range of new models.