Ludwig Görtz joined his father's chain of stores in the early 1960s. He built it into a group with branches all over the country.
In its best times, the company had around 250 locations and almost 3,900 employees. The company filed for bankruptcy in the summer of 2022, and the family quit completely in the spring of 2023. The Austrian company CK Technology stepped in as an investor after many branches were closed and jobs were cut. It has now been announced that he died on Easter Sunday at the age of 89.