History
Medical technology since 1851
Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH was founded in 1851 in Tuebingen, Germany. Under the 5th generation of managing directors, Christian O. Erbe and Reiner Thede, this family business develops, produces and sells systems for electrosurgery, vessel sealing, argon plasma coagulation, cryosurgery and hydrosurgery. Erbe is considered a pioneer in electrosurgery, a technology that utilizes high-frequency currents in order to cut through, coagulate or devitalize tissue, or to seal blood vessels.
1st Generation
In collaboration with the surgeon Professor Victor von Bruns, he developed new designs that set new standards in the field of medicine.
2nd generation
Christian Gottlieb continually broadened his selection of products, now adding induction equipment, microtomes, endoscopy lighting and ophthalmological instruments to his existing repertoire of instruments.
3rd generation
Otto Erbe changed the course of the company. In terms of the technology used, he focused on the development of an adjustable spark gap that used tungsten rather than silver contacts, for which he was granted a German Imperial Patent in 1931.
4th generation
In 1962, the first sales office was opened in Cologne, with more to follow in Munich, Hamburg, Krefeld, Hannover, Frankfurt and Nuremberg.
5th generation
With Christian O. Erbe and his brother-in-law Reiner Thede, the first joint managers in the history of the company took over in 2003.