goods and increasingly for work in the coal mines. Louis Neuhaus Under Louis Neuhaus (1848-1905) the company was able to specialise more and more. The Neuhaus winch became an increasingly important tool in the rapidly growing mining industry. Although the Neuhaus company still did not go beyond the operation of an artisan forge with factory production of winches, Louis expanded the business with great success. He had the old forge demolished and a spacious new one built next to the residential house, where the first machines driven by muscle power were also used. Emma Neuhaus Louis Neuhaus died at the age of 57 and his wife Emma Neuhaus (1859-1932) took over sole responsibility. She had to work with assistants and for particularly difficult jobs she called in master craftsman Wilhelm Müller, who did in the evening hours what the others could not manage during the day. In 1907, the two married. In 1922, Emma Neuhaus handed over the family estate to her youngest son Max Neuhaus. Max Neuhaus Max Neuhaus (1900-1984) joined the company at the age of 19, received procuration and bore the entire responsibility. He specialised in the trade of winches and hoists and resumed production and repair after the First World War. In 1923, the first transmission-driven machine tools were purchased. In 1925, Max Neuhaus received an order for 300 track hoisting winches from the Reichsbahn Central Office in Berlin. After the Second World War, it was again the collieries that first asked for Neuhaus equipment. In order to meet the increasing demands, a long-planned workshop was built in 1952. J. Diederich Neuhaus In 1952 J. Diederich Neuhaus (1925-2010) joined the company as a young engineer. He had the idea to replace the hand drive for JDN hoists, which had been common until then, with a compressed air motor. This was a most welcome innovation for underground mining, because the new J. Diederich Neuhaus air hoists made it possible to work much more effectively, economically and safely. In February 2000, J. Diederich Neuhaus was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President. At the same time, he received the Silver Badge of Honour of the City of Witten. Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé Wilfried Neuhaus-Galladé (* 1957) joined the company in 1986. He had to adapt the family business to the changing conditions of global markets.