Catan

We are part of the entertainment and gaming industry. Today, our primary product is the successful board game CATAN (formerly The Settlers of CATAN), which comes with an array of expansions, editions, and spin-offs. Before founding CATAN GmbH in 2002, CATAN creator Klaus Teuber gained valuable experience as an independent game designer and creating game worlds was his passion.

Over more than two decades, Klaus built an impressive portfolio of board games and electronic games, which is now being carried on by his son Benjamin as a game designer. CATAN is available in over 40 languages; since 1995 until now (Q1 2022) over 40 million games were sold worldwide. According to estimates by our licensing partners, approximately 20 million people regularly spend time in the CATAN gaming universe. Overall, ours is an ever-growing family of high-quality entertainment products and programs, all in keeping with a vision devoted to the cultivation of a vast and largely untapped community.

Klaus Teuber

Game Designer

Klaus Teuber was born in 1952 at the foot of Breuberg Castle in the village of Rai-Breitenbach, surrounded by forests and gentle mountains. Did this rural, idyllic Odenwald backdrop later motivate him to develop CATAN? Maybe.

Board games did not play a big role in his childhood until he was given the game Romans vs. Carthaginians at the age of 11. Soon the ancient armies had left the game board and fought fierce battles on the floor of the children's room. Klaus added new rules to the game and is now convinced that the foundation stone for his later game developments was laid during this time. After graduating from high school and doing military service, he studied chemistry. After completing his intermediate diploma, he joined his father's dental laboratory for family reasons. To compensate for the often very stressful everyday working life, Klaus began developing games in the early 1980s.

In 1988, his debut Barbarossa und die Rätselmeister was named game of the year. Further games and game prizes followed until he hit the jackpot in 1995 with The Settlers of CATAN. In the following years, Klaus Teuber mainly took care of CATAN and expanded it into a large games portfolio, in cooperation with the editors of the Kosmos publishing house and later with the help of his son Guido, who now lives in the United States, and the American publisher Mayfair.

In 2002, together with his wife Claudia and his two sons Guido and Benjamin, he founded the family business CATAN GmbH, whose task is the development, marketing, and licensing of the games he has developed. 

Klaus passed away in April 2023. His two sons continue to run the company and the development of the CATAN world together with the CATAN team in his spirit.

You can find all of Klaus' games in the ludography.