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no 4 | november 2025                                                                   DIZ | DoePke-Info-ZeItung ––– Page 3


             A journey through time – Doepke from 1956 to 2026





        1956                                 1999                                  2023


        Businessman Franz Doepke and         Doepke takes its international activities   A new production hall is completed
        technician August-Wilhelm Engels     to the next level: the subsidiary Doepke   and another one is being planned.
        establish Doepke in Norden (East Frisia).   Middle East is established in Dubai.   The subsidiary Doepke Morocco is
        They are pioneers in residual current   The Asian market is served from here.   established.
        protection technology, as they develop,
        manufacture and sell the first residual
        current circuit breakers.
        The business faces an uphill battle to begin   2019                        2026
        with, as ‘residual current circuit-breakers’
        are still relatively unknown in the 1950s   Doepke brings the production of   Doepke celebrates its
        and there are no regulations prescribing   miniature circuit-breakers in-house.   70  anniversary.
                                                                                    th
        their use.                           A new hall, ‘Plant 2’, is added to the
                                             company premises. The number of
                                             employees grows to 250.
        1979

                                             2020
        The company takes a big step on the
        international stage: the subsidiary
        Doepke UK is established in England.   Digitalisation takes a huge leap forward
        Sales for the United Kingdom are     this year. The Doepke Academy now
        concentrated at the Daventry site, where   offers online training programmes on
        consumer units are also manufactured.   electrical engineering topics.


        1993                                 2022



        Just four years after the fall of the   Production figures are boosted even
        Berlin wall, a new site is added: Doepke   further. The number of employees
        opens a new plant in Bickenriede,    now exceeds 400. A new product for
        Thuringia. Miniature circuit-breakers and   monitoring electrical facilities is launched
        transformer assemblies are produced here.  on the market under the sub-brand
                                             Doepke e.Guard. This brings software
                                             components into the Doepke portfolio for
                                             the first time.








        Doepke     talk                      Subject:  Leakage currents and their impact


        11 December 2025
                                             The experts:










                                             Jens Kleineberg     Sebastian Onnenberg     Johann Meints       Mario Sembritzki
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