jobst friseur frisör ausstattung                                                                                                                          
1910       1936   1941 1942     1945       1950 1951       1957   1959     1969   1973           1987       1989                       2006         2010        
Career Résumé
of Friedrich Jobst

An innovator with
the spirit of invention

  

Through his ability to create new
things and to reassess and improve
processes, he became one of this
new generation of German inventors.

 

 Fritz Jobst’s first
Swiss type automatic lathe		   A successful start
in the special machine business

Enquiries and orders for special machines
followed from all parts of the GDR. With the
machines, precision-made parts and screws
could be made, mostly for the camera industry,
for firms such as ZEISS IKON.

 
A new start in
Schwäbisch Gmünd -
Waldstetten

They arrived by their own means
in July 1958 at Schwäbisch Gmünd.

 
 
His own company premises
with a family house in
Bettringen-Lindenfeld

     
Fritz Jobst's sudden death

 

His wife Herta, who had stuck to her husband through
thin, continued to manage the firm with her son
Ekkehard (33 years old).
A new building for the company

Ekkehard Jobst, as company director, was
suddenly confronted with the task of
managing the company alone. His technical and
commercial skill, allied to perseverance and
hard work – his father’s qualities -
have enabled him to continue to successfully
manage the firm.
 
Continuation of a
successful
range of products

Through perseverance
and willpower,
Ekkehard Jobst has
overcome all difficulties.
       
Market oriented
and innovative

Ekkehard Jobst has invested
substantially in both new
developments and in advertising,
where needed.
   
Our most fathful employees

The "new brooms sweep cleanest!"
philosophy is not that of our company.
We rely instead on very specific
technical know-how and experience,
which has been acquired in the course
of long-term co-operation and personal
commitment, with the aim of contributing
to the success of the firm.
  Uschi Klepke   Günter Hinderer

   

     
  Friedrich Jobst,
the founder of the company,
was born on
22nd  July 1910 in Dresden.		   He attended the Vocational Training School of Elbaue,
belonging to the  Sachsenwerk Niedersedlitz Plant,
from 1925 bis 1929, leaving as a qualified mechanic.		 Hard times followed. High
unemployment brought
a series of challenges.		 In 1941 he obtained a qualification
in precision engineering
at the Technical College of Dresden.		   In 1942 he proposed a framing device
of his own invention to
ZEISS IKON AG. DRESDEN. It was
adopted by the company 1 year later.		 Immediately after the end of the Second World War, on 8th May 1945,   
Fritz Jobst registered a new business.
On 29th May 1945 he received official authorisation to collect metal
and to salvage and overhaul machines within all areas of the old part of the town of Dresden.		 In 1950, as a visitor to the Trade Fair  
in Leipzig and to an industrial exhibition
in West Berlin, he obtained brochures and
technical documents with a view to  
constructing a Swiss type automatic lathe.		   Using these plans, he designed and built
his first Swiss type automatic lathe.
In September 1951 a successful trial run
provided the foundation for the building
of further machines.		 Through this success, it quickly became
known in the GDR that Fritz Jobst developed
and built machines.		 Due to continuous repressive state measures,
self-employed persons were deprived of their
further existence in the GDR.
This resulted in the precipitate flight of the
Jobst family to West Berlin in December 1957.		 Fritz Jobst, now 48, was too old to be employed
as an engineer, and was over-qualified as a
metal worker.		   In April 1959, he made a new start in rented
premises in Waldstetten, with obsolete machines,
some of them rented, as an automotive supplier.		     In 1973, he developed by himself
a new, water-hydraulic pivoting mechanism
and applied for a patent		   He then turned his attention to products in other areast. With the plans for the new building ready, our "boss"
Fritz Jobst suddenly died on 28th April 1987.
As a 77 year-old he had still been active in his own firm.		   As a mechanics technician he had acquired the
necessary experience in his father’s firm.		     In 1989, the new building on the "Gügling" industrial area of Schwäbisch Gmünd was opened.
It comprises administration, CNC machines, modern machinery – all this in a bright,
friendly atmosphere. 		                      It has become ever more important to react swiftly to changes
in the marketplace, with innovations and price adjustments,
and it will continue to be so in the future: "Messrs. Jobst", as
a small but high-quality firm, is constantly confronted with
competition from the "big companies" both at home and abroad.		       This can particularly be seen in the
case of our employee Mrs. Ursula Klepke,
who has now been with the firm for 35 years		   and of Mr. Günter Hinderer, who has now
been with us for 26 years.

It is our company policy to consult all our staff,
most of whom have been with us for many years,
are regarding new developments.