History

The spinning company Drecker & Kuhlmann in Wipperfürth has been totally destroyed by a major fire.

On January 29^th the owner of the spinning company, Mr. Richard Drecker and Adolf Berrenberg – an employee of Edison in the USA – founded the "Berrenbergsche Elektricitätswerke GmbH".
After Mr. Richard Kersting joined the company, on December 17^th  1904 the change of name into „Radium- Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft m.b.H“ took place.

 Eugen Kersting, the oldest son of Richard Kersting and his wife Alma,  joined the company.

After his father’s death, Eugen Kersting took over the business administration together with Richard Drecker. Under the technical leadership of Eugen Kersting Radium started an amazing rise in the following years.

In Germany colour television went on air. Thanks to the electric lighting of Radium the game show „Der Goldene Schuss“ could be broadcasted coloured.

Radium fitted almost all stadiums for the Olympic Games in Munich with lamps especially developed for this purpose.

 Soccer World Championship in South Africa: 4 out of 10 stadia are lit up by floodlighting from Wipperfürth. The German National Team qualifies for the semi-final underneath our lighting.

Today, as the oldest active German lamp manufacturer Radium makes innovative lamps and light solutions on highly industrialised production lines for the global market.