Team
Cities for the people
Since 2016, we have been developing and building the muli cargo bike, tailored to the requirements of living in densely built-up urban space.
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Our team
We produce great bikes together. But beyond that, we see our company as a place where solidarity is practiced and personal development is made possible. High wages, profit sharing, flextime and family friendliness are a matter of course for us.
![Lars Funk Protrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_6913_h.jpg)
Lars Funk
Head of Production, Purchase, Logistics & Quality management
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Can do a wheelie with any bike. Bet!?
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![Jonas Gerhardt Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_4665_h.jpg)
Jonas Gerhardt
Founder, CEO
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Assembled the first 100 mulis in 2017 alone.
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![Sandra Krämer Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Sandrahochkant.jpg)
Sandra Krämer
Accounting & HR
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Once cut Angela Merkel's hair.
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![Oliver Philipps Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Oli_hochkant.jpg)
Oliver Philipps
Head of IT, Sales, HR and Finance
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Juggles ones, zeros and finances and is still good with people. Crazy!
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![Felix Schön Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_4078_h.jpg)
Felix Schön
Head of Marketing & Showroom
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His dream bike is homemade and mocked as a million-dollar grave.
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![Sören Gerhardt Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_6690_h.jpg)
Sören Gerhardt
Founder, CEO
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Had little space and that's when he thought of the muli.
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![Maximilian Ortmanns Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/muli_Mitarbeiterfotos-2.jpg)
Maximilian Ortmanns
Purchase
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Also privately likes to buy quality bikeparts and is known in the industry for his Acto-Five-P-Train.
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![Oguz Ünal Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_6722_h.jpg)
Oguz Ünal
Team leader logistics
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Runs a half marathon every day at the company.
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![Felix Jung Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_1985_h.jpg)
Felix Jung
Sales, Customer service
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Good spirit, chef and the voice of the answering machine.
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![Sami Al-Khayat Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Sami_hochkant.jpg)
Sami Al-Khayat
Development Engineer
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Built himself a rickshaw and drove 90 km in one gear.
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![Jil Ludwig Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Jil_hochkant.jpg)
Jil Ludwig
Warehouse employee
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Saturday afternoon on the soccer field and Sunday morning in the sunrise through Cologne
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![Oliver Michel Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Oliver%20Michel.jpg)
Oliver Michel
Team leader assembly
![Oliver Michel](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Oliver%20Michel_cropped.jpg)
Has many great bikes and almost always in a good mood!
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![Christian Häberle Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8115.jpg)
Christian Häberle
Development Engineer
![Christian Häberle](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8115_cropped.jpg)
Whether alpine cross in March or with via Bulli to Armenia - as long as it is outdoors!
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![Khaled Ayari Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Kahled%20Ayari.jpg)
Khaled Ayari
Mechanic
![Khaled Ayari](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Kahled%20Ayari_cropped.jpg)
Stylish in terms of clothing and bike: Specialized S-Works Roubaix
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![Aykut Kocak Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_4514_h.jpg)
Aykut Kocak
Production
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A machine like our welding robot. Dream team!
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![Michal Schulhof Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8742.jpg)
Michal Schulhof
Logistician
![Michal Schulhof](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8742_cropped.jpg)
Brings 90's Rigid MTB's back to life
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![Craig McLay Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_1873_h.jpg)
Craig McLay
Mechanic
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Needs for a good time: bike, guitar, tent!
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![Maike Nirode Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Maike%20Nirode%20Website.jpg)
Maike Nirode
Team Leader Sales
![Maike Nirode](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Maike%20Nirode%20Website_cropped.jpg)
Fritz Kola is her fuel!
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![Emre Postaci Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Emre2%203-4.jpg)
Emre Postaci
Warehouse logistician
![Emre Postaci](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/cropped-images/Emre2%203-4-665-289-650-791-1665744096.jpg)
The egg boiler allways close at hand - every protein counts!
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![Jürgen Roder Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/J%C3%BCrgenhochkant.jpg)
Jürgen Roder
Mechanic
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Rides his Bonanza bike happily past the traffic jam
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![Leif Gercke Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Leif1.jpg)
Leif Gercke
Mechanic, Customer Service, Showroom
![Leif Gercke](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Leif1_cropped.jpg)
Juggles with wrenches and with words - convincing!
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![Marcus Heinen Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Marcus%203-4.jpg)
Marcus Heinen
Quality Manager Welding Engineer
![Marcus Heinen](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/cropped-images/Marcus%203-4-704-288-714-788-1665743221.jpg)
Can't stand lousy quality...whether in manufacturing, on the dish or on the marathon course.
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![Portrait Charlotte Maas](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Charlotte%20Website.jpg)
Charlotte Maas
Managerin Showroom
![Charlotte Maas](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Charlotte%20Website_cropped.jpg)
Tolerant, kölsche cheerfulness - except in the kitchen!
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![Niklas Pfleger Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_1744_h.jpg)
Niklas Pfleger
Mechanic
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Climbing for breakfast and Ottolenghi for lunch
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![Hannes Herber Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8201.jpg)
Hannes Herber
Marketing Manager
![Hannes Herber](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8201_cropped.jpg)
Cargo bike psychologist with the ability to climb trees
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![Niklas Gladysch](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Niklas.jpg)
Niklas Gladysch
Retailer Service, Customer Service
![Niklas Gladysch](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Niklas_cropped.jpg)
Talent for BMX, good humour and office entertainment
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![Henrik Riemann Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Henrik%20R_hochkant.jpg)
Henrik Riemann
Controller
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Maintains control in Excel and American football.
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![Boris Schröder Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_4605_h.jpg)
Boris Schröder
Work preparation
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Does his rounds in the Alps and on the turntables.
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![Khaled Ashrafani Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Khaled_hochkant.jpg)
Khaled Ashrafani
Welder
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Rhapsodizes about evening bike rides in Damascus
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![Jennifer Winkels Portait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8686.jpg)
Jennifer Winkels
Production Employee
![Jennifer Winkels](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8686_cropped.jpg)
Kölsche Jeck with the most powerful two-wheeler in the team
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![Henrik Höhle Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Henrik_H__hochkant.jpg)
Henrik Höhle
Development Engineer
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The internal reference in the Donwhill.
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![Jonas Jung Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Jonashochkant.jpg)
Jonas Jung
Mechanic
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Has as a 5-year-old with the coaster brake a tire to burst. Respect!
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![Gunnar Menne Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Gunnar%20Menne%20Website.jpg)
Gunnar Menne
Controller
![Gunnar Menne](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Gunnar%20Menne%20Website_cropped_3.jpg)
Our number cruncher has long since realised that cycling does the maths.
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![Portrait Benjamin Gross](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/benjamin-qualitatsmanager.jpg)
Benjamin Gross
Qualitymanager
![Portrait Benjamin Gross](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/benjamin-qualitatsmanager_cropped.jpg)
3d-prints the world the way he likes it and wants to understand "stuff".
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![Marius Bonitz Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/MaBo_hochkant.jpg)
Marius Bonitz
Working student
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Is called Mabo and no one knows why.
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![Gregor Seide Portait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Gregor%203-4.jpg)
Gregor Seide
Mechanic
![Gregor Seide](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Gregor%203-4_cropped.jpg)
Breathes new life into old things - preferably Swedish cars
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![Portrait Robin Kienzle](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/mulicyclesleamay-14.jpg)
Robin Kienzle
Industrial Mechanic
![Portrait Robin Kienzle](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/mulicyclesleamay-14_cropped_1.jpg)
Off the beaten track - by bike or Land Rover Defender
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![Mohamed Mousa](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Mohamed.jpg)
Mohamed Mousa
Production Employee
![Mohamed Mousa](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Mohamed_cropped_1.jpg)
Likes to pick up the strings after work and let the Egyptian oud ring out.
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![Roman Daul Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8437.jpg)
Roman Daul
working Student
![Roman Daul](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8437_cropped.jpg)
Whether Cargobike self-built or Tallbike - likes to modify bicycles and leads them to a new use
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![Portrait Vigan Cakiqi](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Vigan.jpg)
Vigan Cakiqi
Mechanic
![Portrait Vigan Cakiqi](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Vigan_cropped.jpg)
Calm as a dolphin and can even do air rings under water.
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![Kevin Sassenhagen Portait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8903.jpg)
Kevin Sassenhagen
Mechanic
![Kevin Sassenhagen](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/IMG_8903_cropped.jpg)
Is as smart as attractive
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![Tobias Gallun Portait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Tobias.jpg)
Tobias Gallun
Mechanic
![Tobias Gallun](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Tobias_cropped.jpg)
Likes to ride up mountains, e.g. the Pico de las Nieves on Gran Canaria
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![Fabian Wilmers Portait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Fabian.jpg)
Fabian Wilmers
Warehouse Logistician
![Fabian Wilmers](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Fabian_cropped.jpg)
Can do a double forward somersault off the 1m board!
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![Christian Müller Portrait](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Christian%20M%C3%BCller.jpg)
Christian Müller
Mechanic
![Christian Müller](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Christian%20M%C3%BCller_cropped_1.jpg)
Devotee of Gravel Tuesday.
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![Portrait Konstantin Klodt](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Konstantin%20Website.jpg)
Konstantin Klodt
Working student quality management
![Konstantin Klodt](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Konstantin%20Website_cropped.jpg)
Built a clothes rail from a bicycle frame.
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![Portait Simon Blum](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Simon%20Blum.jpg)
Simon Blum
Development engineer
![Simon Blum](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Simon%20Blum_cropped.jpg)
Was able to do a handstand 15 years ago. Can he still do it?
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![Portait Vicas Hofmeister](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Vicas%20Hofmeister_cropped_2.jpg)
Vicas Hofmeister
Mechanic
![Vicas Hofmeister](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Vicas%20Hofmeister_cropped.jpg)
Would love to use his new tire levers. But he's never had a flat tire.
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![Portait Sebastian Preus](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Sebastian%20Preus_cropped.jpg)
Sebastian Preus
Mechanic
![Sebastian Preus](/storage/app/media/Fotos/Image%20Bilder/Mitarbeiter/Sebastian%20Preus_cropped_1.jpg)
Loves the view behind every corner.
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From the barn to the big city
First small series via crowdfunding
In 2016, the first muli prototypes were created in grandma's converted barn in the countryside of the german Westerwald. In 2017, the first mulis rolled onto the streets of the big cities.
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Hello Köln
Here we have found a place that suits us. We have space for storage, for our own metalworking and welding robot, for new assembly lines, for our own showroom, for our growing team, for basketball court and ping pong table.
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