In the company since 2005 Manager / Responsible for Purchasing / Sales
Good leather out of conviction.
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In the company since 2010Responsible for Accounting / Payment Transactions / Staff
In the company since 1993Responsible for Sorting / Arrangement of Perforations & Perforation Marks / Dispatch
In the company since 2016Responsible for Leather Cutting / Leather Processing / Dispatch(Worked previously for over 20 years in the tannery J. Krekelberg GmbH)
In the company since 2018Sales – Handling – Accounting(Previously since his apprenticeship in 2003 at Fa. Esser & Wackers)
In the company since 2018Sales management(Previously since his apprenticeship in 1973 at Fa. Esser & Wackers)
In the company since 2011Responsible for Perforating & Embossing / Transport
in the company since 2013Responsible for Perforation & Perforation Marks
In the company since 2018Warehousing – Dispatch
in the company since 2021Warehousing – Dispatch
in the company since 2023Warehousing – Dispatch
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