{"id":4327,"date":"2016-04-19T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rittmeyer-beri.de\/?page_id=4327"},"modified":"2017-03-21T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T11:19:36","slug":"50-years-feintechnik-r-rittmeyer-gmbh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rittmeyer-beri.de\/en\/50-years-feintechnik-r-rittmeyer-gmbh\/","title":{"rendered":"50<\/span> years FEINTECHNIK R.Rittmeyer GmbH"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all started on our kitchen table. After work and the evening sandwiches it was cleared, then refilled with files and hammers, precision manufacturing equipment, freehand sketches, resistors, oils and fats. Coils were still wound manually with copper wires with a thickness as low as 0.1 mm \u2013 to save about 10 cents…A classical moonlighting activity. The day job as workshop manager at the Institute for Applied Physics of the University of M\u00fcnster was “the profession”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Ruth

Ruth and Bernward Rittmeyer<\/p><\/div>\n

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A friend persuaded our father and grandfather Bernward Rittmeyer and his wife Ruth to strive for, originally joint, self-employment. On 05\/01\/1966 (indeed on May1st!)<\/span><\/a><\/span> it was \u2013 with the approval of the university and, for reasons of financial security, at first alongside the existing employment relationship \u2013 finally time for the birth of the new small company FEINTECHNIK R.Rittmeyer & Co. The manufacturing site: in M\u00fcnster, “An the Kleimannbr\u00fccke 10”; the size: not even 40 sqm; employees: one; equipment: 2 ancient, very simple turning machines (at least, no longer with belt drives…). A garage with a toilet \u2013 more was not possible initially. And since our father was still employed in “public service”, the wives became the founders.<\/p>\n

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This is how it all started.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Alfred-Krupp-Weg-76\"

M\u00fcnster, Alfred-Krupp-Weg 76<\/p><\/div>\n

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Just a few months later, on 10\/01\/1966, it was however possible to expand the company’s floor space to luxurious 150 sqm. A rental floor at the Alfred Krupp-Weg 76, with the charm of post-war industrial architecture. Something that is unmatched today…<\/span><\/p>\n

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This was the floor in which the young company should develop. It was its home until the 3rdNovember 1978. The only advantages: affordable rent and in walking disance to the apartment. As provisional as this may seem nowadays \u2013 in these years the FEINTECHNIK progressed enormously:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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