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Normen Krekelberg - Sohre Leder
Normen Krekelberg

In the company since 2005
Manager / Responsible for Purchasing / Sales

Andrea Krekelberg - Sohre Leder
Andrea Krekelberg

In the company since 2010
Responsible for Accounting / Payment Transactions / Staff

Lambert Krekelberg - Sohre Leder
Lambert Krekelberg

In the company since 1993
Responsible for Sorting / Arrangement of Perforations & Perforation Marks / Dispatch

Roman Rubaszewski - Sohre Leder
Roman Rubaszewski

In the company since 2016
Responsible for Leather Cutting / Leather Processing / Dispatch
(Worked previously for over 20 years in the tannery J. Krekelberg GmbH)

Ingo Jennissen - Sohre Leder
Ingo Jennissen

In the company since 2018
Sales – Handling – Accounting
(Previously since his apprenticeship in 2003 at Fa. Esser & Wackers)

Friedel Zumborn - Sohre Leder
Friedel Zumborn

In the company since 2018
Sales management
(Previously since his apprenticeship in 1973 at Fa. Esser & Wackers)

Hans Hubert Wallraven - Sohre Leder
Hans Hubert Wallraven

In the company since 2011
Responsible for Perforating & Embossing / Transport

Melanie Fünder - Sohre Leder
Melanie Fünder

in the company since 2013
Responsible for Perforation & Perforation Marks

Sandro Salvagno - Sohre Leder
Sandro Salvagno

In the company since 2018
Warehousing – Dispatch

Peter Dahlmanns - Sohre Leder
Peter Dahlmanns

in the company since 2021
Warehousing – Dispatch

Kevin Sieberichs - Sohre Leder
Kevin Sieberichs

in the company since 2023
Warehousing – Dispatch

Since 1960

Karl F. G. Sohre is a company that can look back on a long tradition. Its origins reach into the 60s of the 19th century. 

Founded in Dresden as leather wholesale suppliers, tanneries in Freital and Ostritz later belonged to the company which ranked among the best-equipped leather manufacturing factories before the Second World War. 

After the turmoil of war, only the branch in Cologne remained which was continued as a leather wholesale supplier.

1993
Sohre was taken over by the Krekelberg family who, to this date, has counted among the most important suppliers with their vegetable tannery.
2002
Initial start-up of the first perforating machine
2006
Initial start-up of the CNC cutting machine
2010
Management take-over by Normen Krekelberg
2012
Production is switched to contract manufacturers in Germany
2016
Takeover of the machine park of Gerberei Krekelberg (Krekelberg Tannery)
2017
The leather range of Gerberei Krekelberg is continued
2018
Takeover of Esser & Wackers; the complete range of goods is continued
2019
Construction of a new hall and expansion of the storage area to approx. 2300 m²
2020
Commissioning of a 2-bridge cutting system
2024
Takeover of the product range of the Franz Reiners leather factory