History

1864	Founded by Conrad Dietrich Magirus
1872	1872 2-wheel hand ladder climbable when free-standing, model »Ulmer Ladder«
1892	First horse-pulled rotating ladder 25 m
1904	First steam powered self propelled “fire engine”
1916	First fully automatic drive turn table ladder in the world
1917	Production of Magirus motor vehicles
1931	First turn table ladder with steel ladder set

The First Magirus steam auto turntable ladder

1936	Fusion with Humboldt-Deutz Motorenfabrik
1951	Made the highest turntable ladder in the world 52 m
1953	First turntable ladder with hydraulic drive
1965	First forward control truck chassis
1971	First rescue vehicle RW-rail for subway and local railway operation
1972	First large airport crash tender
1980	First turntable ladder »low-design«
1986	First computer controlled turntable ladder
1987	Take over of previous Bachert production plant in Weisweil, Germany
1992	Iveco Mezzi Speciali, Brescia, Italy
1994	First articulated ladder DLK 23-12 GL CC
1996	Production start of light pumper vehicles in Görlitz/Germany
1997	Lohr-Magirus in Graz/Austria
2000	First oscillation-free turntable ladder (Computer Stabilized)
2005	„Firework of Novelties“ at the Interschutz in Hannover
2007	New modular bodywork generation AluFire 3
2010	Presentation of the models M 32 L-AS (turntable ladder with single extension), M 33 P, SuperDragon 2, MultiStar2 at the Interschutz in Leipzig