Klingelnberg Celebrates 29 Employees for 50, 40, and 25 Years of Company Loyalty
In keeping with tradition, machine manufacturer Klingelnberg has in 2023 once again honored its long-standing employees with an anniversary celebration. This year’s honorees included four colleagues celebrating 40 years with the company and 22 employees looking back on 25 years of service. Three employees are even marking a full 50 years of service. The corresponding celebrations are planned for early summer 2024.
“An anniversary is always something special. Not only in one’s personal life but also in our company. Especially when employees look back on a quarter century or even half a century of their working life at Klingelnberg, it is an occasion for us to celebrate these anniversaries fittingly. Every year, we are delighted with the extent to which our employees identify with the company,” said CFO Christoph Küster. Klingelnberg congratulated colleagues Rainer Tietze, Cornelia Päper, and Klaus Höller on their 50th anniversary with the company.
Rainer Tietze—Mechanical engineering service technician
Rainer Tietze began his training as a toolmaker in 1973 in the measuring instrument and mechanical engineering sector. Originally, he wanted to train as an electrician. However, because all the electrician training positions at Klingelnberg were filled at the time, he quickly decided to switch. “The Klingelnberg company had an excellent reputation for vocational training. So it was very important to me to get an apprenticeship there. That’s why I became a toolmaker instead of an electrician. Klingelnberg also had a high level of commitment toward its trainees. As long as you weren’t too bad at it, you were guaranteed a permanent position,” Tietze recounted. After completing his apprenticeship, Tietze initially worked as a machine fitter in mechanical engineering, and after his military service, he was employed in the field as a service technician. “In the field, I had the opportunity to continuously develop my skills. In addition to looking after many different machine types, I also helped with many software developments as a user. My tasks also included supporting the construction of various special machines and the creation of user manuals,” said Tietze, recalling his professional life. Most recently, in addition to his service role, Tietze was responsible for the development and sales activities of retrofit kits for old machine models.
Rainer Tietze considers the introduction of the phone to be the biggest change in his fifty-year career at Klingelnberg. “During my four-week trips to places such as China and Russia in the early eighties and nineties, I was often only able to speak to my family on the phone after making an appointment two days in advance. Nowadays, with cell phones in everyone’s pocket, this is unimaginable. When it came to technical problems on-site, you were also on your own at first, as it was not yet possible to quickly call a colleague for advice. Unlike in the past, we can now connect to the machines via remote maintenance,” continued Tietze.
“The belief that working at Klingelnberg is something special was instilled in me during my apprenticeship. Klingelnberg has always been a family business for me, as several generations of employee families work there. We all quickly grew to understand that if Klingelnberg was doing well, then we were doing well too. I would particularly like to acknowledge that I have always received my salary on time during my fifty years with the company. So I was always prepared to do my bit at any time,” said Tietze, summing up his 50 years with Klingelnberg.
