The best chiral compounds for the design of shock-free ferroelectric liquid crystal compositions with a wide temperature range of the chiral smectic C phase have been developed. For these experiments about 70 different 4-ring chiral compounds were synthesized and investigated. The influence of the chiral fragment, the mixing ratio between chiral and non-chiral molecules, and the pretilt angle of the alignment materials on the quality and on the mechanical stability of the orientation were investigated. New optimized ferroelectric liquid crystal compositions for the fabrication of shock-free ferroelectric liquid crystal displays with high contrast ratio are presented.