About us
Convincing across generations
Success through tradition and innovation
The starting point of our company was Rosenfeld, where our headquarters are still located today: the company’s history began here in 1880 when Wilhelm Sülzle opened a toolsmith’s shop on Rosenfeld’s market square. This was the first time that what has become our trademark over the years came together: the combination of commercial knowledge with technical know-how.
Today, this knowledge is spread over many shoulders: a small business has grown into a high-performance company with around 1,000 employees, which has been successfully managed by the founding family for four generations.
Even after the turn of the millennium, the SÜLZLE Group has continued to grow steadily. Under the management of Andreas and Heinrich Sülzle, the expansion of the company network has created a group of companies that combines steel, energy and ideas in a symbiosis.
Our focus
What matters
We continuously invest in machinery, office organization and personnel development at all locations and combine many years of experience with modern concepts and new ideas. Because the most important growth factor is innovation: every year we register new developments as patents and thus shape the future technologies of tomorrow.
Then as now, values such as quality and reliability are not just empty commitments for us, but the basis for creating individual and tailor-made solutions for you every day.
1880
Company foundation: Wilhelm Christian Sülzle opens a blacksmith’s shop on the market square in Rosenfeld, where several journeymen work and apprentices are also trained
1922
Wilhelm Sülzle’s son Wilhelm Karl takes over the company (in today’s Sülzle House)
1929
Industrial building: Construction of the workshop (and thus the first industrial building in Rosenfeld) next to today’s town hall
1953
Restructuring: Wilhelm Karl Sülzle divides his company into three parts: Helmut Sülzle Eisenwaren | Wilhelm Sülzle Landmaschinen und Riemenverbinder | Heinrich Blickle Süro Gerätebau
1956
Purchase of the Rosenfelder Fruchtkasten by Helmut Sülzle and his brother-in-law Heinrich Blickle
1961
Helmut Sülzle marries Edith Sülzle, née Mayer
1988
Company management in transition: After the death of Helmut Sülzle, Edith Sülzle continues to run the company with her employees and with the help of the entire family
1990
4th generation: Heinrich Sülzle joins the company. Andreas Sülzle follows in 1998.
2000
SÜLZLE Stahlpartner: Foundation of Stahlpartner in Dornstetten, further locations follow (Dusslingen, Pforzheim, Denkendorf).
2002
Takeover of the company Steim Eisenhandel Dusslingen (today SÜLZLE Stahlpartner Dusslingen)
2003
Foundation of the company Sülzle Stahlhandel GmbH Pforzheim (today SÜLZLE Stahlpartner Pforzheim)
2005
Foundation of the company Sülzle Stahlhandel GmbH Denkendorf (today SÜLZLE Stahlpartner Denkendorf)
2007
Foundation of the partner company Stahlpartner Aichach in Bavaria
2008
Takeover of the KOPF companies by Helmut Sülzle GmbH
2010
Foundation of SÜLZLE Nutzeisen in Sulz am Neckar.
2012
Takeover of the former steel bending company F+G in Bad Schönborn (today SÜLZLE Stahlpartner Bad Schönborn)
2012
Takeover of the former CMC steel bending plant in Dessau-Roßlau (now SÜLZLE Stahlpartner Dessau-Roßlau)
2014
Takeover of Klein Technical Solutions GmbH in Niederfischbach (today SÜLZLE KLEIN)
2015
Takeover of the Max Schön bending shop in Lübeck – Opening of the first Sülzle Stahlpartner location in Northern Germany (today SÜLZLE Stahlpartner Lübeck)
2016
SÜLZLE positions itself in France and takes over the French list mat manufacturer SOTRALENTZ CONSTRUCTION with 2 locations.
2017
SÜLZLE Stahlpartner opens a new branch in Seelze near Hanover and now has 13 locations throughout Germany.
2018
Takeover of the Hagmeyer Stahlcenter in Geislingen an der Steige (today’s SÜLZLE Hagmeyer)
2018
Takeover of STAHL Ehrenfriedersdorf GmbH & Co. KG in the Ore Mountains, today’s SÜLZLE Stahl Ehrenfriedersdorf GmbH.
2018
SÜLZLE Stahlpartner takes over the bending operation of Eisen-Pfeiffer in Stockach on Lake Constance and now has 15 locations throughout Germany.
2019
On 25 May 2019, SÜLZLE Stahlpartner opened a state-of-the-art bending shop on around 10,000 square meters in the port of Lübeck at Nordlandkai.
2024
The SÜLZLE Group is taking over the steel trading company P.T. Post retroactively as of 1 January 2024, thereby further expanding its market position.
2025
SÜLZLE Stahlpartner GmbH will take over the reinforcing steel division of WesterwaldStahl GmbH in Ransbach-Baumbach on 1 July 2025.
Interview with contemporary witnesses
Edith Sülzle
Senior manager of the SÜLZLE Group
Edith Kuret
Member of the Management Board
Heinrich Sülzle
Managing Partner of the SÜLZLE Group
Heinrich Sülzle
Managing Partner of the SÜLZLE Group
Andreas Sülzle
Managing Partner of the SÜLZLE Group
Hartmut Sülzle
Head of Digitalisation
Victor M. Kaufmann
Moderator for leadership and management
Ms. Hertwig & Mr. Müller
Former long-term employees
German Reimer
Managing Partner Stahlpartner Aichach
Stefan Holweger
Commercial Manager SÜLZLE Group
Frank Gansloser
Managing Partner AVAT Automation
Ralf Grau
Managing Partner SÜLZLE Nutzeisen
Henry Klein
Managing Director of SÜLZLE KOPF
Jean-Jacques Muller & Olivier Schmitt
SOTRALENTZ Construction
Ralf Völkle & Gerhard Reich
Long-standing employees of the SÜLZLE Group
Manuel Koch & Martin Gühring
Head of the Route Department and Assistant to the Management
Maximiliane Checa Chumillas & Rebecca Haibt
Senior personnel officer and employee in the HR department