The team from
SIGNUM Sattelservice

Stefan Baumgartner is a saddle developer, author and active working equitation rider. Stefan is the creative mind behind all our saddle models. Driven by his passion for the Iberian Peninsula, he began importing and developing our current saddle brands BENTAIGA and OMEGA® over 15 years ago.

There is no such thing as "can't" with him. Once an idea has entered his head, he tinkers, builds and tests. The results speak for themselves!

Gernot Weber, Managing Director of Signum Sattelservice GmbH, has been in the saddle business for over 15 years. His many years of experience in the field are complemented by his riding experience as one of Germany's most successful working equitation riders.

From the first prototypes to our current range of saddles, he knows each model like the back of his hand. In addition to the technical elements of the saddles, he is particularly enthusiastic about leather - especially here the best is just good enough for our saddles.

Ronja Kay-Weber has been an integral part of the SIGNUM team since 2016. Strategy, marketing & design are her passion.

She herself is an enthusiastic rider and at SIGNUM she can combine her personal passion for the world of horses with creative working approaches and her wealth of knowledge as a psychologist.

She loves to spend her free time with her two PREs on relaxed horseback rides or driving a carriage through the beautiful Lüneburg Heath.

Sophie has been part of our team since summer 2019 and is the good soul in service and accounting. She manages the workshop location North and takes care of all service enquiries and customer concerns that reach us by mail or phone. Whether it's questions about our saddle concept in general, the status of a saddle in readjustment or questions about invoices and delivery dates - you've come to the right place.

In her free time, she rides her PRE at dressage competitions or at eventing courses and cross-country jumping.

Repairs, saddle readjustments and refurbishments are his passion. Ralph is a born craftsman with many years of experience in leatherworking. He knows his workshop like the back of his hand and is dedicated to every single saddle adjustment, repair and refurbishment. Before a saddle leaves his workshop, it is thoroughly polished. With many ideas and love for his craft, he is the good soul in the saddlery.

Mark brings his many years of experience in sales, import/export as well as quality assurance of small and large companies and has an eye on the entirety of all processes & procedures at SIGNUM. He is constantly on the lookout for potential improvements to our products, services and processes in order to constantly improve customer satisfaction. In doing so, he accompanies our team through all challenges and tasks and always has an open ear for suggestions for improvement & ideas!

Lisa Golloch became part of the SIGNUM team directly after her apprenticeship and enriches the service team at the Bispingen location. With her cheerful and open manner, she puts her heart and soul into dealing with all customer enquiries and concerns that reach us by email or on the phone. From general enquiries about our products, our saddle concept or the status of your order, Lisa is there to help you in word and deed.

She loves to spend her free time with her two ponies and looks after them in her own open stable.

You could say Alexander grew up in and with the company from an early age. In addition to his studies, he is now responsible for our logistics and the journeys between the locations in Bispingen, the saddle production and the riding pad production. He supplies the locations with the necessary goods, fetches the precious leather from the various tanneries and brings the finished custom-made saddles to our headquarters for final inspection. Reliable, unperturbed and always with an extra portion of good humour in his luggage, he travels the world for us.

Our four-legged "feel-good managers" keep us in a good mood in the offices, the workshop and in shipping. They like to accompany us to the warehouse, look over our shoulders when we pack the parcels and always have a watchful eye to make sure the saddle readjustments go well ;) After the lunch break and a romp around the yard, we are often accompanied in the afternoon by a quiet and soothing snore from the dog baskets next to the desks.

As the newest member of the SIGNUM family, Lisa has been actively supporting Ronja in all areas of online marketing since summer 2023. In terms of riding, Lisa is at home in the western scene and loves to spend her free time with her riding partner in the Auberg in Mülheim. She first came into contact with SIGNUM and Working Equitation at the Equitana and was immediately impressed by the workers and their community. Through her creativity and her equestrian origins, she brings many new ideas and impressions to the team.

Dinah has been taking care of communications management since September 2021. As a former member of the AWED, she has always been behind the scenes of Working Equitation in Germany and is deeply connected to the sport. When she's not trying to keep you up to date with us, she's working as a show team member for Equitana. A real all-round talent with patience and good humour!

Kerstin joined the team in 2022! She enriches us with her great photos and creates our regular newsletter. Originally she came into contact with us as a photographer at the Lengelshof and now she also takes care of the content: she supports us with her marketing know-how in the areas of newsletter, homepage and magazine. Even though she does not have her own horse, she discovered her riding background at the Lengelshof and her love for the Murgese horse, which she diligently helps to look after. She has also long been infected with the Worker fever and often accompanies the team as ground crew.

Jessica is a horse person through and through. From childhood, she took riding lessons and had the four-legged partners at her side. After studying equine science, she decided to get further into practical work with horses and came into contact with Signum saddles for the first time during her internship with the Vierhaus family. In 2013, she founded her own farm, the Rahmenhof in Weeze. Not only has Jessica accompanied many different horses since then, she was also involved in many equestrian sports until she lost her heart to Working Equitation. She has been working for Signum since 2021 and is on the road in the field service for the western region. She especially likes the varied work and the fact that you get to know many interesting horse-rider pairs through the job. For her, it is a very nice feeling to be part of the Signum family.

Esther joined our team in December 2020 and is responsible for saddle appointments in the field. In Thuringia, Hesse, Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland, she visits various horse and rider couples and advises them on finding their dream saddle. Originally a trained rider, she has been active in working equitation up to the advanced level with her Lusitano since 2008 and likes to pass on this passion to her customers.

Julia began her entry into the world of horses via the classical show scene, before finally catching Worker Fever. The former artistic gymnast started riding at the age of 13, which led her via the path of classical horsemanship to coach A competitive sport, where she successfully rode dressage up to class S and jumping up to class M. She found her affinity for the art of saddling at the age of 15, when she was allowed to build her first custom saddle as a temp in a saddlery. In 2018, the trained equine physiotherapist met Gernot and the Signum company at her first working equitation tournament, and so fate took its course - since 2021, she has been on the road in the North region for her customers and is also available from Monday to Wednesday in the service department to help with all enquiries.

Sales & Service Netherlands and Belgium

Danielle van Bokhoven has been looking after the territory in Belgium & the Netherlands since 2018. We are very happy about this long-term cooperation with Pura Nobleza & Danielle van Bokhoven, who is also on fire for Iberian breeds, saddles for Working Equitation, Doma Vaquera and Alta Escuela. We are pleased to introduce her as your personal local contact and as part of our team.

Saddle fittings and fit checks can still be requested conveniently via our online forms.

Sales & Service Switzerland

Julia Seffer originally became involved with the subject of "the right saddle for a healthy horse's back" out of love for her Quarter gelding Leo. Today, she is an experienced expert in her field and has been looking after horses and riders for over 10 years on all questions relating to the fit of their saddle. She is on tour in Switzerland every 4 weeks with her mobile saddle service and is available on site for fit checks of our SIGNUM and OMEGA saddles.

You can still register conveniently via our website in the section Registration for fit inspection or directly on the website of Julia Seffer Sattelcheck.ch

Sales & Service South Tyrol

Rudi Aufderklamm is one of the most experienced hiking guides in South Tyrol. Rudi has been riding SIGNUM saddles on his trail rides for many years. Together with him we have developed our trail riding equipment on the saddles and tested them on hundreds of kilometres for their suitability.

Rudi has gone from being a convinced customer to a representative for our SIGNUM saddles in South Tyrol. If you are interested in trying on a saddle or checking the fit, please contact Rudi directly here.contact Rudihere.