ROHR Spezialfahrzeuge GmbH looks back on 175 years of company history – and, together with Kässbohrer I Driven by professionals®, looks forward to a successful future.

A good 175 years ago, the "Fundamental Rights of the German People" were published in Frankfurt. Without this historic event, the fundamental rights and freedoms we take for granted today would be hard to imagine. The development of the carriage and vehicle trade would also be hard to imagine without a patent application that also dates back to this time: the invention of the so-called "pneumatic tire" by Robert William Thomson. His "pneumatic tire" is considered the forerunner of later bicycle and vehicle tires. The roots of the ROHR company date back to a pre-industrial era and a time when neither tires nor engines as we know them today existed. Instead, products were developed for regional crafts and guilds, and vehicles were primarily built for agriculture. In the Straubing region, trade was traditionally closely linked to the grain and food industries. For the current parent company of ROHR Spezialfahrzeuge GmbH, the Kässbohrer Group, which originated in Ulm, Germany, in 1893, this was the Swabian automotive industry very early on.

As with all very long corporate histories, the company's history is always associated with ups and downs and constant change. The management of ROHR Spezialfahrzeuge GmbH was therefore all the more pleased to receive the certificate of recognition for its 175th anniversary and to receive a personal visit from Mr. Helmut Hentschel, representing the Lower Bavaria Chamber of Industry and Commerce, at the group's Straubing location!

Katharina Venus, Vice President of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Lower Bavaria, congratulated the management of ROHR Spezialfahrzeuge on this special anniversary by awarding them an honorary certificate from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

By the way, special vehicles for the food industry are still produced in Straubing, as are airfield vehicles and mineral oil tankers for the energy supply. And for ROHR and Kässbohrer, one thing remains equally true: progress requires technical innovation, and for innovation to succeed, it requires a company and an owner family that believes in the future and sees special vehicle construction as a key competency between large-scale industry and logistics, even in the next 100 years!

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