50-year company anniversary

The Probst Company

Fig. 1 Founder of the company Ernst Probst with his wife Helene.

Fig. 2 The block crab „Polyp 64“ in use.

Fig. 3 Introduction of the new complete installation machine VM 203 on the exhibition GaLaBau in Nuremberg in 1988.

Fig. 4 Numerous visitors have shown great interest in the exhibits, such as here at bauma 2010 in Munich.

Fig. 5 Screeding machine Power Plan PP - Material distribution and making layer in one process.

It was in 1961 when Ernst Probst founded a company for the production of grabbing and handling equipment and started working in a small workshop located in Erdmannhausen (Germany). From his previous job as head of the mechanical maintenance department of a concrete factory, he had noticed already quite early that there was still a lot of work to be done in the field of building materials handling. There was a field where the own ideas could be realized as well as tested directly.

In 1964, the first serial product was brought on the market, the “Block Grab Polyp 64” for construction cranes. With a great variety of custom-made products and further standard products, such as the Block Loading Grab AHZ attachment for truck cranes, the upswing continued, the workshop soon became too small and the company moved to a larger production hall at Bahnhofstraße in Erdmannhausen. Later on the company moved from this site to the industrial area allowing increasing the workforce.

In 1978, the son Martin Probst joined the company after finishing his studies as a graduated mechanical...