Bernstein company history

Around 1900		Robert Hugo Bernstein establishes an electrical wholesale firm in Döbeln (Saxony)
1922		His sons Hans and Herbert establish "Monopol GmbH" in Leipzig with telecommunications products
1946		The company is held "in trust" by the Soviet military administration
1947		Permission to set up a production branch in the west Hans Bernstein takes on this task, while his brother Herbert stays in Leipzig. By chance, the place where Hans Bernstein starts production of switches becomes Porta Westfalica
1970		The Röcke branch factory is established and sensor production starts Start of export business
1978		Hans Bernstein dies. His widow, Ursula Bernstein, and their sons Hans Joachim and Thomas take over the businesses Compact Gehäuse GmbH is established and enclosure production starts
1982		The Hartum branch factory is established and enclosure production is transferred
1983		Secomex GmbH in Eickhorst is established for producing explosion protected devices
1985		The foreign subsidiary Bernstein Cobodec SARL is established in France, near Paris
1986		The foreign subsidiary Bernstein Coliprox Ltd is established in Birmingham, England The foreign subsidiary Bernstein Cosemec GmbH is set up in Austria, near Vienna
1991		The foreign subsidiary Bernstein US is set up in Illinois, USA
1995		The foreign subsidiary Bernstein BV is set up in Holland The foreign subsidiary Bernstein AS is set up in Denmark
1997		The foreign subsidiary Bernstein SRL is set up in Italy, near Bergamo
1999		The production factories in Germany are combined under the name of Bernstein AG
2005		The foreign subsidiary Bernstein LTD is set up in China
2006		The foreign subsidiary Bernstein KFT is set up in Budapest, Hungary The foreign subsidiary Bernstein AG is set up in Switzerland