About ENL - Eduard Niedermeier Landshut
The company ENL was founded by father and son Peter and Eduard Niedermeier as a small log business with a focus on fir and oriented to regional customers already at the turn of the century, in 1898.
When the company was born, the four employees who worked there at that time had to deliver all the logs from many small sawmills around the district town of Landshut with a horse-drawn vehicle.
Greater distances than 20 km could not be accessed with a normal horse-drawn vehicle. During the years between the two World Wars and after Peter Niedermeier’s death, the trade with soft wood was successively reduced.
But ENL had started to supply veneer factories in Germany with the first loadings of hardwood logs in veneer quality (especially nut tree). This was only possible because of the steadily growing spread of railway wagons and side tracks in timber and veneer commerce. Already at that time, the collection of the trunks as well as the steadily growing wagon loadings were provided by two heavy goods vehicles. The veneer manufacturer Heinrich Jakob conveyed the necessary knowledge and know-how to Eduard Niedermeier.
After Eduard Niedermeier’s sudden death in 1949, ENL was managed interim by his wife Maria Niedermeier. Today’s owner and CEO Rudy Niedermeier became joint owner in 1956 and sole owner already in 1960.