He was a brilliant inventor and a passionate businessman – Oskar Lapp (1921-1987), founder of the LAPP Group, would have been 100 years old on 20th March 2021. Together with his wife Ursula Ida Lapp, he founded our world-renowned company and is still making an impact on connection technology worldwide to this day.

Oskar Lapp developed the first rectangular connector for industry and the world’s first industrially manufactured and flexible power and control cable under the name ÖLFLEX®. He was the first entrepreneur to give an industrial product a brand name. Today, ÖLFLEX® is reestablished worldwide for its cable flexibility and its resistance to oil. Other brands of the group, UNITRONIC®, HITRONIC®, SKINTOP®, SILVYN®, EPIC®, ETHERLINE® AND FLEXIMARK®.

With over a million customers who trust LAPP, we owe Oskar Lapp gratitude for the which have achieved us this success. It was he who, from the beginning, was aware of the importance of the reliability and quality of a product, believed in innovation and opted for the full solution, which led to the establishment of long-term partnerships with customers.

Today, as a connection solution provider, LAPP has 4.575 employees worldwide.

Without Oskar Lapp, the group would not have existed. We continue to take his work further, preserving the values that underpin THE LAPP brand.