Always looking to the future
– an overview of the success story:
1905 Christian Meister moves with his wife Dorothea from Eichsfeld to Beverungen and sets up a millwrighting establishment.
21/11/1905 Birth of the future company director, Gustav Meister. He grows up with three brothers and sisters.
1912 Christian Meister builds a house with a small workshop in Dalhauser Straße.
1928 Gustav Meister finishes vocational milling training in Dippoldiswalde near Dresden.
14/12/1929 Entry into the craftsman’s register as a millwrighting operation.
24/07/1933 Gustav Meister marries his wife Josefa, née Saken, who gives him three children: Hans-Christian, Maria and Renate.
25/09/1934 Birth of Hans-Christian Meister.
1938 Gustav Meister takes over the firm.
1939-1945 The business stands idle during the war years.
1945-1949 Millwrighting work resumes.
05/09/1950 Gustav Meister founds the company “Meister & Knieb” together with Albert Knieb. Albert Knieb is a relative and has technical expertise in the production of cereal cleaning machines.
1952 The owners of “Meister & Knieb” part company, leaving Gustav Meister in sole charge from
20/05/1952 At this point, the first industrial sieves are manufactured.
Nov. 1962 A new factory building is built in the Blankenauer Straße, complete with office, because the workshop in the Dalhauser Straße has become too small.
27/08/1963 “Gustav Meister GmbH, Specialist Manufacturers of Industrial Sieves” is founded. From now on, the range focuses on sieves.
1965 A small house is built next to the factory for Hans-Christian Meister, who joined the company at a young age.
1966 Just four years after the new factory is built, it has to be extended again. A new office building is also erected.
1969 The constantly growing number of orders makes a second factory building necessary.
1972 Construction of recreation areas for the employees, who now number 34.
1973 Innovation: manufacture of patented sieve stacking elements made of high-quality thermoplastic plastics begins – and this proves to be a great success.
