Julius Schmid (manufacturer)

Julius Schmidt (March 17, 1865 – 1955), later Julius Schmid, was the creator of the Sheik condom and the Ramses condom.[1]

Biography

He was born in Schorndorf, Germany on March 17, 1865. He emigrated to New York City at the age of 17, in 1882.[2] He founded Schmid Laboratories in Little Falls, New Jersey in 1883.[3]

References

1. Brendan I. Koerner (September 29, 2006). "The Other Trojan War - What's the best-selling condom in America?". Slate magazine. Retrieved 2007-07-21. Jules Schmid, a onetime sausage-maker who'd started making lamb-gut condoms in the 1880s; by the time Trojan debuted, he was manufacturing rubber condoms under the Ramses and Sheik brand names. Schmid's packages often featured romantic Egyptian or Arab images. ...
2. "Julius Schmid". PBS. Retrieved 2011-09-25. Born into poverty in Schorndorf, Germany, in 1865, the half-paralyzed Jewish immigrant arrived in New York at the age of 17 to make his fortune. ...
3. "Carl J. Schmid, Former Chief Of Drug Maker, Is Dead at 85". New York Times. June 10, 1983. Retrieved 2011-09-25. He became president of the company in 1939 upon the death of his father, Julius, who founded the concern in 1883 in Little Falls, N.J.