The story
In 1937, Fritz Schaefer started a small company in his garage and produced a selection of sheet metal products. After switching to the serial production of transport boxes and containers, the company was able to expand its business and had to set up a larger facility in Neunkirchen-Salchendorf in 1948.
With the death of Fritz Schaefer, his four sons - Hans, Gerhard, Manfred and Theo - took over. After producing boxes for bottled milk for a while, the company then developed fixed storage boxes in 1953, which were originally made from sheet metal, but are now also available in a plastic version. This was the start of SSI Schaefer.
When the mine "Pfannenberger Einigkeit" was closed down in April 1962, the premises were sold to Theo and Manfred Schaefer, sons of the entrepreneur Fritz Schaefer. They established the Pfannenberg GmbH, which started producing workbenches. Soon thereafter, the company was renamed Schäfer Werke KG and began manufacturing radiators and boilers.
In 1971, Hans and Gerhard Schaefer started the Schaefer Shop in Betzdorf whioch would be the Schaefer Shop company.
In February 2020, SSI Scheafer Group named Steffen Bersch as the new CEO. Bersch will join the company on March 1 for a transition period before succeeding current interim CEO Helmut Limberg on April 1.
In 2023, Peter Edelmann became the CEO after Steffen Bersch left the company.
From Wikipedia’s article on Schaefer Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5