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The Warsteiner Group – Facts and Figures.
Founding Year of the Warsteiner Brewery 1753
Warsteiner Brewery Is in family ownership for more than
250 years and one of the largest private
breweries in Germany
Founder Antonius Cramer (1712 – 1773)
Proprietor of the Warsteiner Brewery Albert Cramer, Catharina Cramer
Board of Chief Executive Officers
Haus Cramer Management GmbH Albert Cramer
Catharina Cramer
Peter Himmelsbach
Stephan Fahrig
Numbers of Countries Exported to More than 60 countries on all continents
Export Quantity Highest export quantity of all private
German breweries
Number of Internationally Employed People More than 1000
History.
1753 First payment of a beer tax by the agriculturist Antonius Cramer.
1803 Establishment of the head office of the brewery in the centre
of Warstein by Caspar Cramer.
1896 Albert Cramer senior graduates at the Brewery School in Worms.
1928 Discovery of the “Kaiserquelle” with soft brewing water and beginning
of specialisation in pilsener beers.
1960 With an annual production of 100 000 hectolitre WARSTEINER is one
of the largest German breweries.
1974 The building of the brewery in the “Waldpark” commences just outside Warstein.
1978 Grand opening of the brewery in the “Waldpark”.
1984 Producing over 2 Million hectolitre, Albert Cramer turns WARSTEINER
into the largest German brewery.
1994 Expansion of the brewing capacity and the development of European
and international export.
2001 Participation in the König Ludwig GmbH und Co. KG Schlossbrauerei Kaltenberg.
2003 250-year anniversary. The company is in the eighth generation of family
ownership. The “einzig wahre Warsteiner” (The only true Warsteiner)
is available in more than 60 countries worldwide.
2005 Opening of the brewery’s own railway siding.
2005 The Frankenheim brewery from Düsseldorf becomes part of the Group.
2006 Catharina Cramer becomes the first woman on the executive board
of the Haus Cramer Management GmbH.
2006 Opening of the visitor centre “Unsere Warsteiner Welt” (Our Warsteiner World),
annually attracting more than 100 000 visitors.
2007 The Herforder Brewery becomes a subsidiary of the Group.
2008 Commissioning of unit IV (filling line) with a capacity of up to 55 000 bottles/hr.