Disposable diapers have only been available in Germany since 1973
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Prior to the use of the disposable diaper and its marketing starting in 1961, cloth diapers were used, if diapers were used at all, and were washed or boiled after use to clean them.
The American Marion Donovan is considered the inventor of the disposable diaper, but she was unable to market her design for a diaper.
The first commercial disposable diaper was launched in the USA by the Chux company.
But it was the invention of a disposable diaper by Victor Mills, a director at Procter & Gamble, that had the breakthrough success. This diaper was then marketed in the USA under the Procter & Gamble brand Pampers from 1961.
However, the Pampers brand was not introduced in Germany until the fall of 1973. In the same year, Procter & Gamble made the decision to build a factory for Pampers in Euskirchen. This factory eventually developed into the largest Procter & Gamble plant outside the USA and the largest employer in the Euskirchen district.
