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Abus

From family blacksmith shop to globally successful security company

1924, in the small town of Volmarstein, near Wetter an der Ruhr: it was a time when people still went to the cinema to watch silent films, when children played in streets barely passable by car and computers were still pure dreams of the future. But in 1924, August Bremicker and his sons achieved the masterpiece of launching a padlock that marked his future and that of his family: the “Iron Rock”.

At that time, the family began developing and producing locks in the basement of their house. With strong competition: in Volmarstein and its surroundings there were then many blacksmith shops of this type. But August Bremicker and his sons were so successful that the company quickly grew to 300 employees. So in 1929 they bought the production plant on Hegestraße in Volmarstein, which is still in operation today.