BEANDS


BEANDS


Emma and August Bremicker


Hege production in the 1940s


Hege production in the 1950s


In these difficult early days, every helping hand was therefore welcome. Emma Bremicker, the founder’s wife, not only took care of commercial tasks, but also travelled to the Ruhr region by bicycle with a sample case to present and sell various padlocks.


This perseverance and the pioneering development of foreign markets, which sometimes required exhausting train journeys as far as Indonesia, as well as the introduction of automated production processes slowly began to pay off.


By the end of the 1930s, ABUS already employed almost 300 people and had an export share of 80%. The company founder August Bremicker lived to see this success before he died in 1938. The company was continued by his sons – above all Werner Bremicker, the first full-time employee.


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Bold new start and innovative spirit ensures upswing


With the beginning of the Second World War, the previously successfully established foreign business collapsed and production was completely stopped. The Bremicker family was not discouraged by these events and in 1947 initiated a comprehensive restart with 79 employees. This was to set the trend for the company’s success right up to the present day. ABUS developed numerous milestone products in the security world such as the internationally renowned Diskus lock launched in 1959 as well as the first ever bicycle D lock offered from 1972. By the 1950s the original factory was no longer able


to keep up with demand and in 1957, ABUS opened a second factory in Rehe, Germany. Today this facility has


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