The company was founded by Ludwig Schunk and Karl Ebe in 1913 in Fulda to produce carbon brushes.

Today, the registered association Ludwig-Schunk Stiftung (Ludwig Schunk Foundation) performs, as trustee, the tasks set forth in the company founder's will.

The Weiss Technik has a total of over 22 companies in 14 countries worldwide and employs about 2,000 people (with 850 in the main plant at Reiskirchen-Lindenstruth in Hesse).

The main users are in the automotive and electric industries, or are producers of household and power tools and medical technology.

[citation needed] Ludwig Schunk and Karl Ebe in 1913 founded the carbon brush factory Schunk+Ebe oHG in Fulda.

After the death of Ludwig Schunk in 1947, the estate of the founder, who had not had any children, passed to the "Providential Fund" of Schunk+Ebe oHG.

In 1957 Schunk Electro Carbón S.A. de C.V. was incorporated in Mexico, becoming the first company on the American continent.

In 2006 the Schunk Group joined the Make Things initiative of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) (Association of German Engineers).

In 2007, the internet portal created by Schunk in the framework of that initiative, www.ingenieurparadies.com (Engineers Paradise), commenced operation.

In 2008 Schunk received the VDI's Best Practice Award in the Promoting initiative category for its [1] Engineers Paradise internet portal.

The Ministry of the Environment of Baden-Württemberg once again awarded a prize to Schunk for its innovative manufacturing design of a fuel cell stack.

Thanks to this expansion of its capacity at the Heuchelheim site, Schunk today produces the largest carbon fiber plates for the semiconductor and solar industries worldwide.

[2] In 2018, Proterra and Schunk Carbon Technology worked together to standardize its charging and communication systems for power-agnostic vehicles.