Franz Doepke and August-Wilhelm Engels found Doepke in Norden (East Frisia). Designing, manufacturing and selling residual current protection circuit-breakers.

Doepke moves to a new purpose built facility with manufacturing, sales and administration on the same site, located in the Norden commercial district.

Doepke opens a new manufacturing plant in Bickenriede (formally East Germany), Just four years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This facility helped provide local manufacturing jobs in the area.

Doepke Norden Sales Marketing & Training move to a new building across the road. Making room for additional manufacturing plant in the factory. Meeting the increasing demand for Doepke Service and Products.

A new production building is added on land adjacent to the existing manufacturing facility, located in the Norden commercial district. Providing additional facilities to demands for specialised production runs.