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50 years of Dugar + Schuster

2007 – 2014

What happened from 2015 – 2024?

January 1, 2015: In Germany, a nationwide general statutory minimum wage of
€ 8.50 gross per hour worked comes into force.

November 2015: The German company Metabo is sold to the Japanese company Hitachi Koki.

1December 16, 2015 : The last edition of TV total is broadcast.

June 3, 2016: Luis Salom falls heavily during Moto2 free practice and succumbs to his injuries a short time later.

June 20, 2016: The Sunway TaihuLight is declared the fastest computer in the world. It is the first computer capable of running at 125,436 petaflops/sec. to execute more than 100 petaflops per second.

July 29, 2016: Bastian Schweinsteiger announces his resignation from the DFB national team.

January 20, 2017: Inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.

June 30, 2017: The German Bundestag decides to introduce “marriage for all”.

May 20, 2017: Last matchday of the 2016/17 Bundesliga; German champions will be FC Bayern Munich for the 5th time in a row.

May 19: 2018 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding at Windsor Castle

October 29, 2018: Angela Merkel announces that she will withdraw completely from politics after the end of the current legislative period in 2021.

December 31, 2018: Israel withdraws from UNESCO.

December 31, 2018: Chinese authorities notify WHO of “cases of pneumonia of unknown cause” in Wuhan. These are the 27 first documented COVID-19 sufferers who were infected with SARS-CoV-2. As it later turns out, people who were sick already had the virus in November.

March 10, 2019: A passenger plane crashes in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board. In response to this, all Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft are grounded worldwide.

April 15, 2019: Notre-Dame fire in Paris.

June 7 – July 7, 2019: 8th Women’s World Cup in France; The USA will become world champions.

January 23, 2020: The Wuhan lockdown brings international attention to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic.

August 11, 2020: Eruption of the Sinabung volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

August 23, 2020: Final of the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League in Lisbon; The winner will be FC Bayern Munich, who won their second treble after 2013.

January 20, 2021: Joe Biden (Democratic Party) is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. Kamala Harris becomes the first woman to assume the vice presidency.

January 23, 2021: Thousands of arrests occur during protests in Russia in response to the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

December 8, 2021: Olaf Scholz (SPD) and his cabinet are sworn in as the new German Chancellor. The SPD had previously become the strongest faction in the federal election and formed the first traffic light coalition at the federal level with the Greens and the FDP.

January 10, 2022: The first successful xenotransplantation of a heart from a genetically modified pig to a human is reported.

January 20, 2022: The Austrian National Council decides with a large majority to introduce general COVID-19 vaccination requirements for all adults from February.

14th/15th January 2022: The Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption is the world’s strongest in 30 years.

April 4, 2023: Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO.

August 25 to September 10, 2023: Germany wins the Basketball World Cup.

October 7, 2023: Hamas surprises Israel with a terrorist attack that results in the deaths of thousands of people or leads to war.

January 1, 2024: The age limit for a pension without deductions rises to 66 in Germany.

April 1, 2024: The Cannabis Act comes into force in Germany, legalizing the private cultivation and consumption of cannabis under certain conditions.

June 14 to July 14, 2024: European Football Championship in Germany.

Right Picture: Louis Salom 2013
Image by Box Repsol on Wikipedia

Cover photo: Supercomputer Sunway Taihu Light
Image by Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Wikipedia

50 years of Dugar + Schuster

2007 – 2014

What happened from 2007 – 2014?

January 6, 2007: Michael Schumacher gets a new job at Ferrari.

February 2, 2007: The German Bundestag passes the health insurance reform, according to which, among other things, all German citizens must be compulsorily insured in the future. Every German citizen has the opportunity to be included in health insurance

April 19, 2008: FC Bayern Munich wins the DFB Cup after beating Borussia Dortmund 2-1

May 25, 2008: NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft lands on Mars.

January 20, 2009: Swearing-in of Democrat Barack Obama, elected US President on November 4, 2008.

October 20, 2009: Out for the mail order company Quelle.

January 4, 2010: Inauguration of the Burj Khalifa (Tower of the Caliph), the tallest building in the world at 828 meters.

April 23, 2010: Greece, which is on the verge of national bankruptcy due to the financial crisis since 2007, is asking the European Union and the International Monetary Fund for a total of 45 billion euros in financial aid.

December 3, 2011: Thomas Gottschalk moderates his last Wetten, dass..? show.

January 13, 2012 : The Italian passenger ship Costa Concordia collides with a rock off the island of Giglio in the Mediterranean, 32 people lose their lives in the accident.

October 14, 2012: Felix Baumgartner succeeds in a record parachute jump from the stratosphere as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.

April 15, 2013: An attack occurs at the Boston Marathon, leaving three dead and more than 260 injured. The German company MAN is majority-taken over by the company Volkswagen AG.

December 5, 2014: The last vehicle is assembled at the Opel Bochum plant before this plant closes. December 31, 2014: Official end of combat operations and (partial [5]) withdrawal of the “International Security Assistance Force” from Afghanistan; 13,500 soldiers from several countries will remain in Afghanistan.

Right picture: Burj Khalifa in Dubai
Image by Joi on Wikipedia

Cover photo: Planet Mars
Image by Kevin Gill on Wikipedia 

50 years of Dugar + Schuster

1999– 2006

What happened from 1999-2006?

June 12, 1999: NATO troops invade Kosovo.

December 1, 1999: Northern Ireland regains its autonomy after 27 years of British rule.

May 1, 2000: The German Horst Köhler becomes director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

June 1, 2000: The EXPO 2000 world exhibition opens in Hanover.

March 16, 2001: The German-language Wikipedia is founded.

September 11, 2001: Terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the USA on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the USA claimed around 3,000 lives.

January 1, 2002: The euro is put into circulation as a new currency.

July 21, 2002: Michael Schumacher wins his fifth Formula 1 world championship title.

July 30, 2003: The last VW Beetle rolls off the assembly line at the Volkswagen plant in Puebla (Mexico).

2003: After the death of Maurice Gibb on January 12th, brothers Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb announced that they would never make music under the name Bee Gees again.

February 4, 2004: Mark Zuckerberg starts Facebook as a student at Harvard University as a platform for fellow students to contact each other.

June 21, 2004: SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately built aircraft to reach an altitude of 100 kilometers and thus reach space. Michael Melvill becomes the first civilian astronaut

January 18, 2005: The prototype of the Airbus A380 is presented to media representatives in Toulouse in the presence of prominent political guests.

January 27, 2005: The Berlin soccer referee Robert Hoyzer admits to having manipulated game encounters through decisions in order to enable betting fraud. The 2005 football betting scandal is getting underway.

May 9, 2005: The Bundestag decides to increase the sales tax from 16 to 19% and to increase the insurance tax.

January 24, 2006: The Walt Disney Company announces that it will acquire Pixar Animation Studios for $7.4 billion.

June 23, 2006: The Galapagos giant tortoise Harriet (* approx. 1830), considered one of the oldest known animals in the world, dies in the Australia Zoo in Queensland.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig Mello “for their discovery of RNA interference.”

Right Picture: Galapagos giant tortoise
Image by wirestock on Freepik

cover-photo: Galaxy
Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

50 years of Dugar + Schuster

1974 – 2024

The year is 1998

In Germany, Gerhard Schröder replaces Helmut Kohl as Chancellor after 16 terms in office.

The spelling reform introduced in the same year met with resistance.

1.FC Kaiserslautern becomes German football champion.

The Audi TT is presented.

One of the worst train accidents in Germany occurred with an ICE train in Eschede.

The EU decides to introduce the euro, initially for cashless payment transactions from January 1, 1999.

Mika Hakkinen becomes Formula 1 world champion.

France becomes football world champion in its own country.

The film TITANIC appears in German cinemas.

cover-photo: Audi TT – M. Hueltner
on wikipedia

Portrait of Gerhard Schröder: Stefan Prößdorf

50 years of Dugar + Schuster

1974 – 2024

The year is 1994

Michael Schuhmacher becomes the first German driver to become F1 world champion with Benetton.

Former world champion Ayrton Senna dies at the F1 race in San Marino.

The Eurotunnel between France and Great Britain opens. Deutsche Bahn AG is founded.

Sony launches the first Playstation.

Richard von Weizsäcker and Roman Herzog are Federal Presidents.

Netscape presents the first Internet browser.

Excite is the first internet portal.

The space shuttle Discovery takes off for the first time with a Russian cosmonaut on board.

The construction of the Transrapid test track in northern Germany is decided.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.

The film “Pulp Fiction” by Quentin Tarantino receives the Palme d’Or, and the film “Schindler’s List” by Steven Spielberg receives 7 Oscars.

cover-photo: Eurofighter. Av Javier Dieguez. CC BY NC 2.0
auf snl.no

Picture Excite: webdesignmuseum.org

50 years of Dugar + Schuster

1974 – 2024

The year is 1990

The unconditional release of Nelson Mandela marks the beginning of the end of apartheid.

The two adventurers Arved Fuchs and Reinhold Messner end their Antarctic crossing of the South Pole by reaching Scott Base after 92 days and 2,800 kilometers on foot.

Mikhail Gorbachev is elected President of the USSR. Second Gulf War: Iraqi troops invade Kuwait.

The East Berlin People’s Chamber votes for the GDR to join the Federal Republic of Germany.

On the way to the reunification of the two German states, the unification treaty is signed in Berlin.

With the accession of the areas of the GDR including East Berlin to the scope of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, the reunification of the two German states is completed.

In the 1990 federal election, the first all-German election, Helmut Kohl’s government was confirmed in office.

The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery as part of the STS-31 mission.

Thanks to a penalty kick converted by Andreas Brehme against Argentina, the DFB team won the final of the 14th World Cup 1-0 and became world champions for the third time.

Cover-Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1990-1003-400 / Grimm, Peer / CC-BY-SA 3.0 on Wikimedia Commons

50 years of Dugar + Schuster

1974 – 2024

The year is 1986

The space shuttle “Challenger” breaks apart after launch, all 7 astronauts die in the tragic accident.

Mikhail Gorbachev begins his political change in Russia with the “Glasnost” and “Perestroika” programs, which ultimately lead to the end of the Soviet Union.

In Chernobyl, incorrect operation of the control system of a nuclear power plant led to a reactor meltdown; the physical consequences have lasted longer to this day than the energy policy effects in Western Europe.

Portugal and Spain join the European Community.

In Germany, parental leave and childcare allowance are introduced.

Mitsubishi is experimenting with an on-board computer to provide information about vehicle conditions.

The Ford Scorpio is voted Car of the Year in Germany, the Opel Omega is announced as the modern successor to the Opel Rekord.

Our favorite, however, is the start of production of the BMW M3 in its original version, today a sought-after youngtimer. (Picture)

The Paris Dakar Rally was won in the passenger car sector by Porsche with the modified 959 in a one-two victory.

Meanwhile, the founder and organizer of the rally, Thierry Sabine, dies with his companions in a helicopter crash in Mali.

Right photo: BMW M3
Photo by T.Vogt on Wikimedia Commons

Cover photo: Space Shuttle Atlantis
Photo by Daderot on Wikimedia Commons

50 years of Dugar + Schuster

1974 – 2024

The year is 1982

Argentine troops occupy the Falkland Islands. This is the beginning of the Falklands War.

Helmut Kohl (CDU) is elected as the new head of government after a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD).

The first German test-tube baby is born in Erlangen.

Audi presents the aerodynamic “world champion” Audi 100 with a drag coefficient of just 0.30.

Walter Röhrl wins the 50th Monte Carlo Rally in Monaco with an Opel Ascona 400.

Niki Lauda is celebrating his Formula 1 comeback after a three-year break.

Michael Jackson’s successful album Thriller is released, which over the years becomes the best-selling album in the world.

The first Commodore 64 comes onto the market.

Student Scott E. Fahlman suggests using the three ASCII character string 🙂 for email jokes. The first smiley (emoticon) will soon spread across Arpanet. The Internet doesn’t exist yet.

50 years of Dugar + Schuster

1974 – 2024

The year is 1978

After 2 weeks of negotiations, the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is signed in Camp David; the Arab world is critical of this.

1978 is the year of the 3 popes, Karol Wojtyla is the first Pole to be elected the new pope and retains the chair in the Vatican for several decades.

The VW Golf comes onto the market and the Parker company invents the ballpoint pen with a push mechanism.

In Bavaria, Franz-Josef Strauss was elected Prime Minister with an absolute majority; he, too, will retain this office for a long time and shape the political landscape in Germany.

Germany becomes handball world champion and 1. FC Cologne becomes German football champion.

After more than 10 years of abstinence, Mike Hailwood wins the legendary motorcycle race on the Isle of Man with DUCATI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8t4ILQKAZA&t=4s

BMW starts small series production of the M1 sports car.

Dugar + Schuster sells the first heavy-duty lathes from TACCHI from Italy – a tradition that continues today.

The aluminum wheel or commonly called the “aluminum rim” is not only used for sports purposes but also for sporty drivers – manufactured by established companies such as Otto Fuchs Metallwerke, Kolbenschmidt or Mannesmann Kronprinz.

But aluminum wheels were also brought onto the market by racing-enthusiastic entrepreneurs with the companies ATS, BBS, Borbet, Campagnolo, Cromodora, OZ, Rial, Ronal and Speedline.

Image: BMW M1 with it’s original Campagnolo wheels https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M1