Couplings are our life, technology is our passion and progress is our constant drive.
We have been true to this credo for more than 9 decades – a time in which we are constantly developing, but have never forgotten our roots.
The transition from the initially small E. Georg LÜDECKE KG in Leipzig to today’s well-known LÜDECKE GmbH has been shaped by three personalities in particular with their long-term vision and forward-looking thinking.
With the development of the claw coupling for compressed air in 1930, Emil Georg LÜDECKE laid the foundation of LÜDECKE‘s success. In 1949 he moved the company to Amberg, where it is still based today. In 1986 Erwin Bogner, who had been managing director and partner since 1956, assumed the company and established it as a top address for high quality coupling systems. With entrepreneurial vision and a huge personal effort, Bogner established a global sales distribution network and settled in an innovative way the course for future product focuses (pneumatics, temperature regulation, processing and construction industry, water application). Under his direction, the planning and the start of the new company building in 2015 emerged, which Klaus Herdegen successfully implemented. Herdegen joined the LÜDECKE GmbH in 1995 and now continues the family company as Chief Executive Officer. During his leadership LÜDECKE is taking his biggest steps in expanding and developing in its 90-year-old history.
In addition to highly innovative product developments, the permanent expansion and optimization of the product range, the expansion of production, the implementation of digitization in all areas, the transfer of know-how and knowledge, this also means: taking on more responsibility. Responsibility for daily actions as a company with regard to the environment, employees, society and the next generation. Because this is already in the starting blocks and is ready to open a new LÜDECKE chapter.
Our heart beats for first-class coupling systems. But we are also a company with a big heart and a strong connection to our hometown of Amberg. With LÜDECKE you not only enter into a cooperation, but also a permanent relationship with a reliable and experienced partner – and that has been for 90 years.