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Altenburg-Stralsunder Spielkartenfabriken A.G. is Germanys biggest playing card manufacturer, the merger of Altenburger fabrication (since 1832) and the company in Stralsund (since 1765) happened in 1931. The company was expropriated by the GDR in the 1950s and a new factory was built in Leinfelden, which existed until the 1990s.