An overview of the chronology of Schnellecke

01 June 1939

Freight forwarder Albert Schnellecke founds a freight forwarding company in the new City of the KdF Car as an official railway carter and furniture transporter.

01 September 1939

Start of World War II. Vehicles are confiscated for the German Armed Forces. Business is done with tractors, horses, and horse and cart teams. His wife Margarete helps out in the company. Their daughter Annegret is born in 1942 and their son Rolf in 1944.

May 1945

By the end of the war the company has been looted and the storage shed on the Fallersleber Road has been set on fire. The city is renamed Wolfsburg after the name of the local castle.

28 December 1949

Albert Schnellecke dies from the effects of pneumonia at the age of 47.

1949/50

Margarete Schnellecke continues the small freight forwarding company under extremely adverse circumstances and at great personal sacrifice. Her son Rolf grows into his role in the company while still in school. The company continues to concentrate on railway carter forwarding and furniture transporting in the fast growing city of Wolfsburg.

1965

Start of regional transports for Volkswagen.

1967

The first freight forwarding building "Am Güterbahnhof" is built. At 22, Rolf Schnellecke joins his mother’s short-haulage company as a limited partner and founds the Rolf Schnellecke Company on May 1, 1968 after successfully completing the necessary exams for long haulage. The company is later expanded to a group of companies, and then converted to the Schnellecke Group AG & Co. KG in 2007.

1970

The first transports abroad, including to Belgium, Yugoslavia and Spain, are carried out.

1985

Opening of the new freight forwarding center in Wolfsburg-Sandkamp as the company headquarters. Start of logistics services for the automotive industry with pilot projects in picking, pre-assemblies and sequencing.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, takeover of the transport divisions of the former Sachsenringwerke in Zwickau and Barkas-Werke in Chemnitz. Development of a forwarding network in Saxony. Establishment of logistics supply centers in Glauchau and Zwickau. Establishment of further branches in the new federal states.

1994
Takeover of Karosseriewerke Dresden and construction of a new pressing plant in Radeberg.

Foundation of Schnellecke Logistics España in Barcelona.

In the course of globalization and the outsourcing of logistics services, overseas locations are established.

1995

Foundation of Schnellecke South Africa.

1997

Foundation of Seglo Logistics in Mexico, a 60% subsidiary of Schnellecke Group AG & Co. KG.

1998

Foundation of Karosseriewerke Dresden España.

1999

Foundation of Seglo Logística in Brazil.

Foundation of Schnellecke Slovakia.

2000

On the occasion of Margarete Schnellecke's 95th birthday, the Margarete Schnellecke Foundation is established with the aim of supporting elderly and needy people.

2001

Foundation of KWD Portugal.

2002

Nikolaus Külps and Dr. Tim Kannewurf are the third generation to join the family business.

2002

Foundation of Dalian Schnellecke Logistics in China.

2005

Foundation of Schnellecke Russia.

2007

As of 01.01.2007, the group of companies is managed in the legal form of an AG & Co. KG, under the leadership of Nikolaus Külps as Chairman of the Management Board (CEO). Rolf Schnellecke takes over as Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

2009

Schnellecke acquires 100% of the shares in Seglo Logistics in Mexico.

2010

Foundation of Schnellecke Jeena Logistics India.

Foundation of KWD Bohemia in the Czech Republic.

2012

Foundation of Schnellecke USA.

2013
Prof. Rolf Schnellecke transfers shares in the family business to the third generation.

2013

Opening of the stand in Duisburg.

2014

Schnellecke turns 75 years old, Karosseriewerke Dresden turns 150 years old.

Site opening in Dingolfing.

Foundation of the KWD branch in China.

2017

Seglo Mexico is integrated into the Schnellecke Logistics umbrella brand.

Schnellecke founds the 50/50 joint venture CDC Schnellecke Logistics Company, Ltd. with headquarters in Shanghai.

Site opening in Soltau.

2018

Schnellecke accelerates the strategic development of the use of automated and autonomously controlled transport systems by founding GS Fleetcontrol, a 50/50 joint venture with Götting KG.