Company profile
Pape & Olbertz is one of the leading manufacturers of starters, resistors and switchgears for industry.
Our innovative medium-sized enterprise offers customer-specific solutions as a basis of mutual success.
We act with responsibility towards our customers, suppliers and employees.
| Managing Director | Thomas Streich | |
| Share capital | T EUR 210,300 | |
| Headquarters | Pulheim | |
| Company premises | 6576 m² | |
| Turnover | approx. EUR 3.0 million | |
| Employees | 23 |
| 1919 | Company founded by engineers Ludwig Pape and Hans Olbertz , new name Pape & Olbertz Fabrik elektrischer Schaltgeräte GmbH |
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| 1945 | Efferen factory ruins reconstructed |
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| 1948 | Production of starters, rheostats and resistors |
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| 1960 | Production site expanded, new offices constructed |
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| 1971 | Company taken over by Florian Bauer, new name Pape & Olbertz Fabrik elektrischer Schaltgeräte GmbH u. Co. KG |
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| 1975 | Production plant expanded |
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| 1982 | Production taken over from Adler Hanover |
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| 1986 | Cooperation agreement with AEG for the manufacture of railway and industrial resistors |
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| 1991 | Took over production of AEG resistance devices |
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| 1998 | MBO by all employees, new name Pape & Olbertz Schaltgeräte und Widerstände GmbH |
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| 1999 | Brand license agreement with the legal successors of AEG. production and direct distribution of AEG resistance products |
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| 2007 | New location, moved into new company premises in Pulheim |
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| 2009 | 90-year company anniversary |
