History

The history of Pfeifer goes back to 1579, with the earliest record of the Pfeifer family?s rope factory in Memmingen dating from this year. In 1950 Hermann Pfeifer, aged 22, took over the rope business which then employed just 2 people. With a commitment based on personal conviction, a wealth of ideas, farsightedness and openness, Hermann Pfeifer succeeded in turning this small business into an industrial enterprise, which flourished in the reconstruction period following on from the Second World War.

With the acquisition in 1994 of the Gustav Kock Wire Rope Factory in Mühlheim a. d. R. (Germany), a global leader for elevator ropes, a strategic landmark was set in the development of the company. With Gerhard Pfeifer, the twelfth generation of the family leads a group of companies with outstanding performance in the world markets for ropes, lifting and construction equipment.