Matthias Schuke

Schuke was born in Potsdam on 7 July 1955, and in the Magdeburg Cathedral. They built organs also in Australia, China, Russia and Taiwan. The company carried out restorations of historic organs including of St. Stephan in Tangermünde, built by in 1624, in 1994, of the Brandenburg Cathedral in 1998, of in Angermünde, and the Schwerin Cathedral. In 2003, Schuke decided to leave the old small workshop premises, divided in three locations of the Dutch Quarter in Potsdam, to build a new company headquarters in Werder (Havel), moving in February 2004. In November 2017, he announced that he would gradually hand over the company to his sons Johannes (born 1985) and Michael (born 1989). The sons took over the company management in 2018. Schuke died after a serious illness on 14 November 2025, at the age of 70. He was remembered as a keeper of the tradition of the workshop founded 205 years earlier as well as an innovator. == Awards ==

In 1998, Schuke was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany as a committed personality in German organ building. In 2001, his company achieved first place in the Technology Transfer Prize of the Technology Foundation of the State of Brandenburg, together with the University of Potsdam. The company also received the 2001 Professor Adalbert Seifriz Prize, a nationwide craft prize from the Steinbeis Foundation in Stuttgart for innovations researched with Reimund Gerhard from the University of Potsdam. In 2009, the company was awarded the Zukunftspreis from the State of Brandenburg. In 2011, the company and Markus Abel, professor at the University of Potsdam, received the Professor Adalbert Seifriz Prize again. == References ==