History

1906

Foundation of Ramsay at the slaughterhouse in Hamburg

1911

Foundation of Dohr in Tientsin/China by Gustav Dohr

1930er

relocation of Dohr headquarter to Gdansk

1950

company Dohr is rebuilt in Hamburg by Kurt Köhnke and Wilhelm Schulz

1981

Kurt Köhnke transfers the management to his son Dietrich and his son-in-law Joachim Otte

1998

Dohr becomes majority shareholder in Ramsay

2004

Björn Köhnke, Volker Otte, Cärsten Otte and Dietmar Huss take over the management from Joachim Otte and Dietrich Köhnke

2006

commissioning of the new production site of Ramsay in Gehrde near Osnabrück

2010

commissioning of the new Dohr warehouse in Hamburg

2013

establishing the Viva Casing GmbH as a joint venture with the patent holder Oriol Comas and the Director of Operations in China