Hasse & Wrede

Hasse & Wrede was founded in 1897 in Berlin, Germany, by Carl Hasse and Julius Wrede. Since 1921 the company has been a member of the Knorr-Bremse Group, and it shares services with its parent company Knorr-Bremse Systems for Commercial Vehicles.

The company is headquartered at Georg-Knorr-Straße 4 in Berlin and has production facilities in Germany, Brazil, the United States of America, China and India. It supplies custom-built dampers to engine builders worldwide and states that it has been the world market leader in damper design for more than forty years.

Hasse & Wrede is certified to ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 14001 and is an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO). The managing director is Björn Bethke.