Images in time - the erbe chronicle

The Company chronicle It is the year 1851. It will be decades before electricity comes from a socket. In his workshop at Holzmarkt, Christian Heinrich Erbe constructs optical devices and other instruments for scientists at the university. His range of products will soon to be expanded by surgical snares, platinum burners and electrodes heated for treatment and surgical applications using galvanic current generated by zinc-carbon batteries. The university mechanicus has laid the foundation for the “C. Erbe Mechanische und optische Werkstätte.” Today, 164 years and four generations later, the business is still based on solid craftsmanship, exacting precision and modern electrosurgical technology. Physicians around the globe perform operations using highly specialized surgical systems from Tübingen. Erbe – a Swabian family enterprise in its fifth generation – has not only shaped the history of a city but also that of the business world and technology for more than one-and-a half centuries. The Erbe biography – a captivating chronicle of our times.