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 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-AT, M 33 P, SuperDragon 2, MultiStar2 at the Interschutz in Leipzig