Eheim

EHEIM was founded in 1949 by engineer Gunther Eheim in Deizisau near Stuttgart. Its early work involved technical products and model making. In the 1960s Eheim applied a centrifugal pump to a filter container and developed the external suction filter that made the name central to aquarium equipment. The current company operates as EHEIM GmbH & Co. KG from the same town, with a continuous industrial history in Baden-Württemberg.

The catalogue covers external and internal filters, pumps, aquariums and cabinets, heaters, lighting, controllers, UV, CO2, feeders, gravel cleaning, spare parts and pond equipment. Many families are built as serviceable platforms with replaceable seals, impellers, baskets and components, supporting maintenance and long-term parts availability. Professionel, classic, ecco and compact systems apply the company's original water-movement and filtration competence to different use cases.

Expansion also came through acquisitions. In 1993 EHEIM acquired Müller & Pfleger, the aquarium manufacturer known as mp, and later Jäger, a heater specialist; those names were progressively integrated under EHEIM. This strategy turned a pump and filter producer into a complete supplier of tanks, equipment and thermal control. The business retains its founder's name, while current management is carried by the German corporate structure identified in the official imprint.