| 1827 | Foundation of Duisburg Schiffergilde, expansion of the business unit to timber trade
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| 1844 | Foundation of Duisburg Schiffergilde, expansion of the business unit to timber trade
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| 1860 | Son Emil Nieten expands & founds "Emil Nieten Shipping and Timber Trade"
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| 1870 | Acquisition of all shares by Johann August Nieten
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| 1884 | Johann August Nieten dies, wife Caroline Henriette Nieten continues to manage the company
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| 1905 | Caroline Henriette Nieten dies. Son Carl August Nieten takes over the company.
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| 1920 | Shipper Albert Kretschmer works in Decin (Sudetenland) at the Schenker company
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| 1924 | Carl August Nieten & Albert Kretschmer found "NIETEN Ges.m.b.H Internationale Holstransporte" in Decin
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| 1927 | Carl August Nieten dies after a tragic accident; Albert Kretschmer takes over all shares
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| 1945 | Nationalisation of the company; a short time later the Albert Kretschmer family have to leave Decin
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| 1945 | The Kretschmer family find refuge in Königstein (Saxony) and have their first beginnings as a transport commissioner in the Soviet zone
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| 1949/50 | The family-owned company moves to the West; begins anew in Freilassing
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| 1951 | Timber transport from Yugoslavia and Austria for previous and new customers
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| 1954 | Expansion of the business with timber imports from Romania
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| 1954 | First branch office: Furth im Wald. Offices in Berlin (1959) and Passau (1961)
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| 1954 | The company headquarters moving to Kerschensteinerstrasse in Freilassing in 1954
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| 1959 | Development of timber transport from Scandinavia with partner company Nordisk Transport AB, Trelleborg
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| 1960s | The transport market is restructured; trucks become more important
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| 1960s |
New branches in Freilassing, Bad Reichenhall-Autobahn, Neuhaus am Inn, Obernberg (from 1983 Suben-Autobahn) |
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| 1974 | Albert Kretschmer and daughter Christl Lastovka-Kretschmer jointly manage the company
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| 1977 | Founder Albert Kretschmer dies; his daughter Christl Lastovka continues to manage the company
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| 1987 | Son Klaus Lastovka joins the company
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| 1990s | Strong increase of wagon-timber traffic from EU countries in transition
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| 1990 | Opening of many new offices at the German-Czech border
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| 1992 | Foundation of own customs organisations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
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| 1994 | Klaus Lastovka takes over sole management as a managing partner and owner
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| 2000 | Demerger of "freight transport" business department to "NIETEN Fracht-Logistik"
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| 2000s | Founding of NIETEN Poland, expansion of the branch network from the Ukrainian border to the Swiss border
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| 2003 | The NIETEN network comprises 50 offices with 270 employees
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| 2004 | EU Eastern expansion: Cutbacks, reduction of locations
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| 2004 | Sale of business unit "NIETEN Fracht-Logistik" to Stinnes AG (Deutsche Bahn)
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| 2004 | Focus of total Deutsche Bahn timber business to DB Schenker NIETEN GmbH in Freilassing
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| 2014 | 90 years of NIETEN: Based in 5 countries with 25 locations and 120 employees
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| 2018 | Daughter Maria Lastovka joins the company
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