Overview
- North Rhine–Westphalia Minister-President Hendrik Wüst visited the Ehrlich Brothers’ workshop in Bünde and met with Andreas and Chris Ehrlich.
- He took part in the staged “sofa‑saw” illusion that made him appear halved, with reporters also noting pyrotechnic demos on site.
- Wüst praised the duo as exemplars of NRW’s creative entrepreneurial spirit rooted in their home region and left with a signed Coca‑Cola bottle containing a magically produced 2‑euro coin.
- The company runs more than 1,000 square meters of workshop space in Bünde with about 50 employees and a fleet of roughly 30 trucks, including dedicated pyrotechnics units.
- The stop capped a regional tour that also included the University of Paderborn, Dr. Oetker’s test kitchen, Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel and the local chamber, with no new policy measures announced.