C.Ed. Schulte

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C.Ed. Schulte GmbH cylinder lock factory
legal form GmbH
founding 1840/1888
Seat Velbert , Germany
Number of employees 430 (2014)
sales € 42 million (2014)
Branch Locking technology
Website ces.eu

The C. Ed. Schulte GmbH, CES for short , is a company with headquarters in Velbert , which is known for the manufacture of locking systems . It is the oldest cylinder lock factory in Germany. It manufactures mechanical and electronic locking systems, locks and security cylinders.

history

The small iron industry in the Velbert area emerged from peasant part-time businesses . The oldest evidence of the hardware business in Bergisch Land found in the lifting registers of the monastery are from the early 12th century. First of all, factories were founded in the middle of the 19th century by well-funded merchants . The castle masters, who had an average of one and a half employees in 1855, then bought simple machines. In this way workshops became manufacturing operations . Even before 1840, the ancestors of the company founder Heinrich Schulte worked as lockmakers in Velbert. In 1857 the workshop was transferred to the son and namesake of the CES group, Carl-Eduard Schulte. He founded the factory in 1887, which was entered in the commercial register in 1888. At that time there were 30 employees. The company is still run as a family business in the seventh generation.

In 1896 the first steam engine was installed in a lock factory in Velbert at CES . As early as 1909, CES was the first German company to start manufacturing locking cylinders. During the occupation of the Ruhr after the First World War, the export-oriented lock industry was plunged into a deep crisis. The French customs authorities confiscated C.Ed. Schulte and imposed a fine of 200,000 francs. During the global economic crisis at the end of the 1920s, the workforce was reduced from 280 to 75 employees. With the recovery of the construction industry , CES became the market leader in Germany. For the new building of the University of Cologne in 1934, the largest locking system in the world until then was manufactured. The Kölnische Zeitung reports on the “University's magic lock”, where a key can open 867 locks. During the Second World War, the metal industry in Velbert was hardly bombed , although it was located between the economic areas of the Rhine , Ruhr and Wuppertal , which is said to be due to the numerous investments made by the American economy.

In 1988 an electronically controlled locking cylinder developed in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute was presented. In 2006, CES was a founding member of the Schlüsselregion eV and since 2009 the company has been offering dual study places together with the Bochum University of Applied Sciences. In the same year the key design was introduced with the unmistakable "Made in Velbert - Germany".

370 people are employed at the main location in Velbert Oberstadt. In 2004 cylinder production was founded in Sibiu , Romania .

The best-known objects that have been equipped with CES cylinders include the Dresden Frauenkirche , the cruise ship AIDAcara , the Reichstag building of the German Bundestag, the Elbphilharmonie , the University of Oxford and the Arena auf Schalke .

literature

  • 125 years of C. Ed. Schulte GmbH , 1966.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Boisserée: Economic area Düsseldorf. Stalling, 1977, p. 206.
  2. ↑ The recipe for success of the silent locksmiths . In: Handelsblatt of February 22, 2010.
  3. ^ Gert Ritter: Velbert - Heiligenhaus - Tönisheide. Cultural geographic development of a Niederberg industrial area. A. Henn Verlag, Ratingen 1965, page 68.
  4. ↑ Ulrich Morgenroth: From the locksmith to the key region. Lock and fittings in Velbert and Heiligenhaus from 1547 until today . Scala Verlag, Velbert 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813898-3-8 .
  5. ^ Henri Schmidt: Velbert in French hands , published in collaboration with the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Abbot Velbert-Hardenberg. Scala Verlag, Velbert 2016, p. 122 ff.
  6. ↑ Horst Degen, Christoph Schotten (ed.): Velbert - history of three cities. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-1843-1 , p. 293.
  7. ↑ "Fabriggeschäft" and magic castles. ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: Rhein-Wupper-Manager, August 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rhein-wupper-manager.de
  8. ^ Friedrich Küppersbusch: Locks for Baghdad. In: The daily newspaper taz , February 19, 2003. From taz.de, accessed on January 20, 2019.
  9. ↑ CES invests in the future and remains loyal to Velbert. On: "DerWesten" from May 24, 2015.
  10. ↑ Spruck, Matthias: CES invests in the future and remains loyal to Velbert. In: https://www.waz.de . May 24, 2015, accessed March 5, 2020 .