Oscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut production company, owned by Kraft Foods, known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon and Lunchables products.

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German immigrant Oscar F. Mayer (March 29, 1859 in Kösingen, near Neresheim, Württemberg - March 11, 1955) began working at a meat market in Detroit, Michigan, and later in Chicago, Illinois. In 1900 in Chicago, Oscar Mayer, along with his brother Gottfried, leased the Kolling Meat Market, on the near-northside of Chicago. The two sold bratwurst, liverwurst, and weißwurst and were popular in the predominantly German neighborhoods of Chicago around the market.^[1]

Oscar Gustave Mayer, grandson of the founder and the third Oscar Mayer to head the company until he retired in 1977, remarried in 1999, at the age of 85.

In 2007, the company was subject to an email hoax which claimed that Oscar Gustave Mayer did not support the United States military.^[2][3] On July 6, 2009 Mayer died of old age at 95 in Hospice Care in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.

The "Oscar-Mayer-Platz" in the village of Kösingen, now in the Federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, is named for him.^{[citation needed]}

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[edit] External links

• Oscar Mayer Homepage

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